Example sentences of "to get [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | who who do you think , I mean , th , you know , the government 's making it pretty clear at the moment , Mrs , that that er , in these troubled times something 's gon na get squeezed because there 's so m , many people out of work that gi , you know , they 're having to pay more unemployment benefit , there 's not enough tax money coming and and generally the government is hard up , so someone 's going to get squeezed in the social security system . |
| 2 | For breeding aquaria where undergravel filtration is used , smaller sized gravel is more suited as fry tend to get trapped between the larger sizes . |
| 3 | Keep a record of how you spend your time and what you 've managed to get done during the previous week . |
| 4 | To get accepted on the first training course is difficult enough . |
| 5 | You must have that " something extra " — not just to make it to the top but to get employed in the first place . |
| 6 | Then the horse plunged as Jones shook the reins to get rid of the swaying woman who still hung like a limpet , and Anmer rolled over towards the inside rails with Jones underneath . |
| 7 | A There is no need to have your hair cut short to get rid of the bleached highlights before you have your hair coloured back to its natural shade . |
| 8 | I 'd be glad to get rid of the great ox but I ca n't so there 's an end of it . |
| 9 | The first thing is to get rid of the Soviet Union 's presence here . |
| 10 | Any resistance or reluctance by the scion to take everything , perhaps because it is getting some of what it needs from its own roots , and the stock has to start looking for ways to get rid of the unused energy , and that means making its own top growth , which takes the form of suckers or ‘ briars ’ . |
| 11 | The wily old president , Ghulam Ishaq Khan , who temporarily joined up with the opposition leader , Benazir Bhutto , in order to get rid of the prime minister , is now scheming against her , too . |
| 12 | ‘ They had to get rid of the offensive literature , they could n't burn it , so they scraped it off and grafted back some skin from my arse … |
| 13 | I tried everything to get rid of the extra weight with no success . |
| 14 | Suddenly it seemed all important to get rid of the terrible thing . |
| 15 | Mr Yeltsin 's dilemma is that , to continue with economic reform , he has to get rid of the present parliament , which is blocking him at every turn . |
| 16 | And th , think they 're having a real problem in Birmingham as well the they 're , trying to get rid of them and they 're down the sewers all the time trying to get rid of the bloody things ! |
| 17 | And now to get rid of the Legato icon . |
| 18 | Changes in the ways employment , training and welfare policies operate need to be brought about so as to get rid of the many disincentives that exist for women wishing to return to training or employment . |
| 19 | If full airbrakes are needed for more than a few seconds , and it looks as though they should be kept on , sideslipping should be used to get rid of the excess height so that for the last part of the approach less than full airbrake approach is required . |
| 20 | The slip is used just to get rid of the excess height so that less than full airbrake is required for the rest of the approach . |
| 21 | Miss Nazir warned them to get rid of the stolen property and then went to alert her sister . |
| 22 | Or , to take it further , had he begun to have hopes for the remainder of the night , and so taken this means to get rid of the other man ? |
| 23 | But best of all for parents , cleaning up is easy because gloop washes away ( although you may have to scrub hands a bit to get rid of the red colouring ) . |
| 24 | Everywhere that is coloured white will be transparent in the movie itself , so I have had to use the drawing tools to get rid of the coloured bits of the background . |
| 25 | However that same landlord may be introducing tube wells , tractors and high-yielding varieties of seeds , and therefore wish to get rid of the large number of inefficient workers to whom he may be partly responsible for housing , clothing , looking after their aged or sick , and also to whom a sizeable proportion of the additional benefit from these improved inputs would accrue . |
| 26 | Q SHOULD I try to get rid of the large number of slugs and snails which have got into my compost bin ? |
| 27 | I thought the whole thing had been a set-up — to get rid of the old President and his Communist allies . |
| 28 | We soak the feet in nice , erm , antiseptic soapy water , and when we think the feet have soaked enough for the skin to become soft , we take the feet out and then we rub with a foot file to get rid of the hard skin . |
| 29 | So that 's a , a pedicure , which helps you to have your toe nails nice and short and to get rid of the hard skin . |
| 30 | to get rid of the artificial distinctions which the historical development of the law had drawn between land and movable property — leaving only those distinctions which are due to the natural qualities of these two forms of property ; |