Example sentences of "get [verb] of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that 's about all the world 's media , camped outside his house in Park Road in Abingdon , got to see of the retired bank manager . |
| 2 | Mr Ratner , who is 41 , quickly got rid of the snobby atmosphere which prevails in most independent jewellery stores . |
| 3 | I 've got rid of the damn thing now . ’ |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | By evicting smelly plastic items ( see p 174 ) you have already got rid of the worst de-gassers . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And had n't we got rid of the American troops from Vietnam ? |
| 10 | I thought I 'd actually got rid of the damned things . |
| 11 | And it has also got rid of the yellow lines which once scarred them . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | Is that all we 've got left of the electric cable ? |
| 14 | Few ever recovered their status in society , he said , or got rid of the bad habits they contracted while there . |
| 15 | If anything went wrong in any part of the world he always said " That 's because you got rid of the little man " . |
| 16 | ‘ If you got rid of the hereditary right to vote you would lose 85 per cent of the problems . |
| 17 | And nationalisation : that was great because it got rid of the old bosses . |
| 18 | ‘ Ca n't think why we ever got rid of the old bat . |
| 19 | And his , and he got rid of the beautiful eagle erm you know , reading desk and he got rid of the Bishops 's erm , chair , the Bishop 's what do they call it ? |
| 20 | When you getting rid of the stupid thing ? |
| 21 | The unionist focus , therefore , has been on getting rid of the Anglo-Irish Agreement and replacing it with something much less intrusive . |
| 22 | With a background in ICI 's pharmaceutical and paints operations , he told The Economist a year ago that a case could be made for hanging onto the jewels and getting rid of the tarnished tinsel . |
| 23 | generally erm and if we 're talking about the strategy we 've got ta sort of er sort out for ourselves whether we think the strategy of getting rid of the local tyrants and the evil gentry is the wa right way to actually achieve that the aims of getting rid of warlords . |
| 24 | But now what 's happening is , they 're getting rid of the old ones cos they pay them too much ! |
| 25 | They thought I had made a huge mistake in getting rid of the old collection in preference for collecting what they unanimously regarded as ‘ junk ’ . |
| 26 | But getting rid of the Iraqi dictator would be , as James Baker , the secretary of state says , a desirable side-effect , not the central objective endorsed by the United Nations and most countries in the world . |
| 27 | This time General Ne Win was getting rid of the 1947 constitution and with it the AFPFL and both groups of leaders . |
| 28 | They 're just getting rid of the dead wood at the moment ; there 'll be new jobs in new growth industries . ’ |
| 29 | So all it is , is , says , sure that that 's that , so what I 'm gon na do is say the modules of Z one is the square root of five squared plus one squared , so if I want the modules of Z one squared then all I 've got is five squared plus one squared , cos when I 've squared it , it gets rid of the square root , which is , do n't you think , . |
| 30 | So , that might be something to bear in mind , that it 's not just the negative part , get rid of the excess sort of organics , but it 's to get rid of cure disease . |