Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] of the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I 'd be glad to get rid of the great ox but I ca n't so there 's an end of it . |
| 3 | The first thing is to get rid of the Soviet Union 's presence here . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 … |
| 7 | I tried everything to get rid of the extra weight with no success . |
| 8 | Suddenly it seemed all important to get rid of the terrible thing . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And now to get rid of the Legato icon . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Miss Nazir warned them to get rid of the stolen property and then went to alert her sister . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Q SHOULD I try to get rid of the large number of slugs and snails which have got into my compost bin ? |
| 18 | I thought the whole thing had been a set-up — to get rid of the old President and his Communist allies . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | If you want to get rid of the green water , which is not harmful , a UV is the only sure remedy . |
| 22 | A younger generation , or at least a younger American generation , has been brought up on a list of acid tests , invented to get rid of the boiled oatmeal consistency of the bad verse of 1900 , and there is no doubt that many young readers seeing Binyon 's inversions , etc. , will be likely to throw down the translation under the impression that it is incompetent . |
| 23 | As Edward Hulmes quoted in his book in this series , Education and Cultural Diversity : The great teachers of religion have always had to get rid of the useless lumber which accumulates in its progress — the rigid dogmatism , the narrow legalism , the mechanical rites , the silly superstitions which may become a substitute for religious life . |
| 24 | Also , we have been calling for many years for legislation to get rid of the offshore tax havens of the sort that Lord Duncan-Sandys ploughed money into from Lonrho about 1970 . |
| 25 | Is not it about time that the Government recognised that the only cure for unemployment is to get rid of the Conservative Government as soon as possible ? |
| 26 | But it was not so easy to get rid of the cosmological constant . |
| 27 | In order to get rid of the whole web of interlinked concepts , myths , wishes and desires , one has to mine it from within . |
| 28 | He showered again to get rid of the tell-tale smell , then lay on his bed and stared at the ceiling , quite immobile , thinking . |
| 29 | ( 2 ) The said duty is owed if the landlord knows ( whether as the result of being notified by the tenant or otherwise ) or if he ought in all the circumstances to have known of the relevant defect . |
| 30 | Under the Yorkists it seems to have consisted of the Great Chamber or Hall , for public entertainments , the Chamber itself , and the Bedchamber , consisting of the private apartments . |