Example sentences of "got rid " in BNC.
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1 | So got rid of him at last , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , and went in to the glass . |
2 | If he had n't eaten it , I would have bought the cake at the auction and got rid of it . |
3 | In Eternity , like the madman in the story who got rid of his devils when they were driven out of him and into the swine , Russia will sit healed at the feet of Jesus . |
4 | He had got rid of Ken Livingstone from Labour 's national executive committee , and got rid too of Labour 's unilateralist nuclear policy . |
5 | So is it about time we got rid of this confusing tradition ? |
6 | WE can get rid of Trident missiles just as we got rid of cruise missiles . |
7 | The team physiotherapist , Alejandro Koch , has been banned for a year because , in Fifa 's words , he was ‘ an accomplice of the doctor ’ , as has the kit man , N Maldonado , because ‘ he got rid of the gloves and jersey of the goalkeeper ’ . |
8 | It got rid of problems until the next morning . |
9 | He got rid of oppositionists by proposing some impossible task , and when they failed or refused would move their expulsion , anyone who voted against automatically expelling themselves . |
10 | Dr Marchand has devised a technique for reading the texts they got rid of . |
11 | In the thirteenth century they got rid of old restrictions which fettered the freedom of alienation in the interest of lords or heirs . |
12 | I had some paper dolls one time , but me landlady got rid of them , said they were messing the place up . |
13 | ‘ It 's time you got rid of that lunatic Great Dane , ’ Nanny shouted above the din . |
14 | It got rid of nationalised monopolies that were a drain on taxpayers , allowed the people to own them and ensured services improved . |
15 | So you just got rid of them . |
16 | Eventually Nellie got rid of Percy Rimmer and replaced him with Robert Clarke , who did Tiller 's stage effects . |
17 | ‘ Christ , he got rid of the blanket , ’ yelped Billy . |
18 | They got rid of electronic monitoring equipment , including TV cameras and recorders , by complaining that these interfered with their powers and caused headaches . |
19 | Then the other one , whom your sister thinks must be the owner of the farm , apologized for a ‘ case of mistaken identity ’ , as he called it , and got rid of me as quickly as possible . |
20 | The quicker he got rid of her the better . |
21 | It was the regime that got rid of them . |
22 | ‘ It was you who got rid of them — made them redundant . |
23 | Few ever recovered their status in society , he said , or got rid of the bad habits they contracted while there . |
24 | The local council had suddenly decreed that unless the school caretaker got rid of his dog , he would lose his job and the house that came with it . |
25 | I 've worked hard on the ‘ proper English ’ accent and with Kenneth 's help , got rid of the Yorkshire ‘ u ’ sound — as in bus — but had a little trouble with the ‘ ay ’ sound — as in fade . |
26 | The rest of Europe laughs at the feudal system that most of them got rid of centuries ago . |
27 | She thought , I do n't doubt , that if she got rid of me he would turn to her , but she 's too fat . |
28 | It got rid of the space between my teeth , which I did n't like anyway , so some good maybe came out of it after all . ’ |
29 | Chrissie got rid of him . |
30 | ‘ If you got rid of the hereditary right to vote you would lose 85 per cent of the problems . |