Example sentences of "get rid [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know cancel any of your big debts because it 's going to help your budgeting if you know that you 've got rid of a lot of er |
| 2 | If you 've got rid of a doorway , or turned two rooms into one , round it off with an arch kit which you plaster over ; add stylish fibrous plaster arch mouldings and corbels ; or frame it in wood . |
| 3 | ‘ Odd place to be , if you 'd just got rid of a baby . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It may interest you to learn , oh Wise and Wonderful One , ’ said Cassie tartly , ‘ that we 've only just got rid of a woman Prime Minister . |
| 5 | Reading between the lines , the tribunal may have suspected that the employer was merely using the sentence as a convenient excuse for getting rid of a man whose record was not unblemished . |
| 6 | Sometimes to claim too close a relationship became the way of getting rid of a wife , particularly if she had not produced male children . |
| 7 | Getting rid of a nuisance that could be there . |
| 8 | Like getting rid of a nuisance that could be there . |
| 9 | To write off the ideas and conclusions which one has reached in order to allow an accommodation with other people 's expectations may mean getting rid of a conclusion which the manager had reached after listening to and observing other people 's experience . |
| 10 | ‘ Wanting , moulding me to your desire , getting rid of a hunger that will be gone by nightfall . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Yeah , the rats 'd thank us for getting rid of a human , ’ he went on . |
| 12 | Or they might decide they want to learn how to read , that they want information about birth control , or advice about getting rid of a caique ( local boss ) . |
| 13 | Getting rid of a flat ? |
| 14 | It 's always easier getting rid of a player rather than replacing one as Cavan found to their cost . |
| 15 | ‘ I suppose I first started thinking about this when I was at university in the late '70s : that getting rid of a set of prejudices about women had only reinforced a whole bunch of prejudices about men . |
| 16 | The Foundation has also refined the Distributed File System to enable it to handle things such as groups of files instead of single lines of files , as well as getting rid of a number of Distributed File System bugs . |
| 17 | It has also refined the Distributed File System to enable it to handle things such as groups of files instead of single lines of files , as well as getting rid of a number of DFS bugs . |
| 18 | Now you , if you get rid of a lot of , of a lot of the rubbish right ? |
| 19 | So everything 's there , printing presses repro separation houses , sheet film , computer set up and Apple Macs and everything is there , it 's actually a very impressive set up erm , the Queen Margaret 's course , I 'm slightly dubious about I once had a colleague I 'm going back a decade who had been employed on the basis of doing the communications course at Queen Margaret I think , and it turned out that it was n't communications as we understood it , it was n't our sort of communications P R newspapers and things like that , it was communications on a much broader , broader front so it did n't actually fit in to the world of P R and what happened was I then had to sit down and train this woman from scratch and get rid of a lot of the preconceived notions that she had come in with she had brought from Queen Margaret 's College . |
| 20 | Well alright , but can you , can you not get rid of a couple of the boxes and what 's this thing there ? well why do n't you tip it up the other way and give yourself a bit more room , tomorrow Deana what 's that , your dictionary ? |
| 21 | It went to his head and the superintendents were terrors and they could get rid of a man — give him the sack like slap on their wrist . |
| 22 | Then equally big lefts in rounds five and seven could not get rid of a man whose courage failed to make up for obvious shortcomings . |
| 23 | An African nationalist commented to some of us the other day , ‘ When we take over , we may get rid of a lot of white people — but we want Don and Penny to stay . ’ |
| 24 | And erm I mean they were quite they would n't they would n't get rid of a baby , but a lot of people thought they would . |
| 25 | I was on a local council for some years that thought it was well run , but we still found it possible to get rid of a tier of management . |
| 26 | The country effectively run by fourteen Tory backbenchers a Prime Minister who was told by his Party and has been told by his , by the country consistently to get rid of a chancellor who is totally and utterly incompetent . |
| 27 | They 'd have terminated me just to get rid of a nuisance . |
| 28 | And with him adding that he had to get rid of a notion in football that Manchester United was a drinking club . |
| 29 | They just make indie music because they 're middle class teenagers who want to get rid of a bit of angst and I do n't think that is what Curve are about . |
| 30 | Once you decide to get rid of a Windows application , it 's vital to make copies of any important data you 've created with it to make copies of any important data you 've created with it before embarking on a ‘ slash and burn ’ policy . |