Example sentences of "got rid [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will not have got rid of nostalgia , he wrote , till we have got rid of the sky . |
| 2 | Now he is churning out line with a 15lb breaking strain and it is proving so popular that he has now got rid of the old banger he had been driving around in for years and bought his first executive saloon . |
| 3 | ‘ Within the limits of detection , we have got rid of the Aids virus . ’ |
| 4 | Mr Ratner , who is 41 , quickly got rid of the snobby atmosphere which prevails in most independent jewellery stores . |
| 5 | ‘ They have got rid of the Christian God , and now feel obliged to cling all the more firmly to Christian morality : that is english consistency , let us not blame it on little blue-stockings à la Eliot . |
| 6 | By evicting smelly plastic items ( see p 174 ) you have already got rid of the worst de-gassers . |
| 7 | He stumbled and droned and scribbled in his book like someone half asleep , but Miss Thorne knew that as soon as he had got rid of the book and started working on the character of Scrooge he would be very different . |
| 8 | I 've got rid of the damn thing now . ’ |
| 9 | But there is a way , you can manage you can do it and the important thing is that it 's your body that 's doing it , that your body that 's keeping the exercise going , so that when the actual pain disappears , when you 've got rid of the acid , your joints still work and your muscles are still good . |
| 10 | Times ten add two times four , eight , That 's got rid of the brackets , equal minus four . |
| 11 | And had n't we got rid of the American troops from Vietnam ? |
| 12 | Given that in the harmonisation process we have already got rid of the half crown and of the threepenny bit , what is the emotional difficulty about changing the pound coin to the ecu ? |
| 13 | He knew that Siward , finally , might have just enough extra power to prevail , upon which his men had their orders : to give way ; to appear to fly ; to cross the Forth somehow at the wide ford , having got rid of the bridge . |
| 14 | We should never have got rid of the little Fiat we used to have which started first time every time and if anything did go wrong you could fix it with an elastic band or a bit of string , Gianluigi used to say , although personally I 'm hopeless with machinery . |
| 15 | He 's got rid of the old plants , he 's , but he 's kept the seeds , this is interesting , he 's kept the seeds from apparently unaffected plants . |
| 16 | That 's got rid of the sludge in the tank and everything , you put in a complete sealed unit on . |
| 17 | I thought I 'd actually got rid of the damned things . |
| 18 | And it has also got rid of the yellow lines which once scarred them . |
| 19 | Have you got rid of the cod liver oil taste yet ? |
| 20 | I 've only just got rid of the baby . |
| 21 | Got rid of the plague yeah . |
| 22 | When you 've got rid of the varnish . |
| 23 | I asked them if once they 'd got rid of the forty percent they could then get it back by dropping the prices , you know , they 've , they 've |
| 24 | bu bu but yes , I mean , er er at this stage they 'd just got rid of the warlords |
| 25 | You 've got rid of the landlords who have been mainly exploiters and so |
| 26 | Because she took it in , she 's got rid of the mark . |