Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , Stephen 's mother uses Hilary as an excuse to stay on at the Manor and I want rid of her . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You want rid of her , yet you do n't want her to wear your suit . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It … it 's just that life is so bloody and I 've been carrying this dreadful emotional weight around with me since Seville and I want rid of it . ’ |
| 4 | also it looked like Ronnie ‘ the runner ’ Rosenthal was in excellent shape for Israel against France — he looked sharp as hell from the glimpes Ive seen of the israelian goals — is he still at Liverpool ? ? |
| 5 | When comparing terrace patterns from one area to another one should take into account , not only the height , but also the degree of development and the degree of complexity of the various members of terrace sequences , i.e. whether certain terraces seem compounded of several minor elements . |
| 6 | When we are not being accused of ignoring the vernacular pub tradition with the abomination of café-bars and so on we stand accused of creating ‘ pastiches ’ when we get involved with restorations — no matter how conscientiously researched a project . |
| 7 | BIG EARS , you stand accused of writing 85 radio reviews in Punch . |
| 8 | They stand accused of two sins : first , that they intrude unreasonably into people 's private lives ; second , that they are unacceptably biased and pursue that bias with scant regard for the truth . |
| 9 | Whilst the nation is still at war with itself , whilst the security forces stand accused of supporting Inkatha members in attacks on the ANC at Boipatong , now , as Mick Cleary asked in RW&P in January , ‘ can anyone say ( now ) that there will be no violent backdrop to the 1995 World Cup ? ’ |
| 10 | It has also been inconveniently revealed that some Muslim fighters have being doing to Croats what the Croats stand accused of doing to Muslims . |
| 11 | All were victims of a year-long bribery scandal in which dozens of politicians stand accused of demanding contributions to party funds in return for lucrative public works contracts . |
| 12 | You stand accused of producing , through your books , material unsuitable for minors , including incidences of car crime , racism , corporal punishment , and not wearing a seatbelt . |
| 13 | When mother , Mams Arougeaye heard of it she sneered . |
| 14 | ‘ You 're going to get a job and get shot of them as quick as possible . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh yes — get shot of babies and land in the middle of a crowd of boys . |
| 16 | Iraq arms probe told of ‘ conniving to defeat justice ’ |
| 17 | So , of course you might be running into trouble by doing too much , by being over-zealous and when you do things , or you may also be inviting criticism and inviting the , the great fickle hand of of bureaucratic power down upon you by doing too little too late , and that 's often the , that 's often the criticism which people in your profession and several other professions get accused of . |
| 18 | Get rid of what you do n't need , he wrote . |
| 19 | If you do inadvertently end up with very little airbrake , or with excess speed , do n't be afraid to hold off slightly higher than normal while you get rid of some of the speed . |
| 20 | From Brussels and Strasbourg came the stern warning : ‘ This constitutes a monopoly — get rid of it ! ’ |
| 21 | Yet they see nothing inconsistent with objecting to a well-engineered nuclear waste disposal plant which is clearly necessary to dispose safely of irradiated material already created ; or to properly regulated high-combustion chemical waste disposal plants that are the only alternative ( unless we get rid of the chemical industry ) to toxic wastes being dumped surreptitiously in some field or on some beach . |
| 22 | The central tenet of rebirthing is that thought is creative and that our beliefs about ourselves are self-fulfilling : according to the trainers , a ‘ beautiful ’ American couple called Peter and Meg Kane , if we can think positively about ourselves and get rid of negative thoughts , we can eliminate our insecurities . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's easy for people to sit here and say get rid of Roy Aitken . |
| 24 | It seems almost impossible to do anything with them ; therefore , the view has grown , get rid of them . ’ |
| 25 | Inanimate matter does n't answer back and if you get fed up with what you 're doing you throw it down the sink or get rid of it . |
| 26 | ‘ I threw it away because it was totally unsaleable , ’ he says , putting into practice another lesson from his father : never look at your mistakes , get rid of them because they 'll annoy you . |
| 27 | Louise took a couple of inches off Clare 's hair to tidy it up and get rid of the split ends . |
| 28 | I usually get rid of my men after 2 ½ years . |
| 29 | If your household has two cars and you get rid of one of them you may be helping the environment , but are certainly worse off . |
| 30 | He praises him for insisting that we free ourselves from the Idols , get rid of preconceived notions , and form our ideas on the basis of properly conducted experiments . |