Example sentences of "[vb pp] of [pron] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , er , I 'm sure we all know them , how to stop them coming , or get rid of them as soon as possible . |
| 2 | Now this I dependably find a real throw-up number but there 's never anything too horrendous because , as my colleagues are always saying , we 're at the darning-and-patching level of the biomedical business : the serious cases we bring in direct , and at speed , from the city hospitals , and we in our turn get rid of them as quickly as we can . |
| 3 | Then she said : ‘ So you see , I 'm making myself as unpleasant as I can — and I assure you I can ! — to make them want to get rid of me as soon as possible . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Maybe she just panicked for the moment , wanted to get rid of it as soon as possible . ’ |
| 6 | If that golf-club was used to attack Alain , the killer would want to get rid of it as quickly as possible . ’ |