Example sentences of "get [vb pp] of [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government 's already got rid of a minimum wage in industry , but farmworkers say they must be treated as a special case . |
| 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 | ‘ We got rid of an old woman and replaced him with a younger one , ’ Fergus said , mouth turned down at the corners , staring over his whisky tumbler and across the room to where his wife was talking to Antonia . |
| 21 | It would also , if adopted , have the practical merit of getting rid of a procedural minefield . |
| 22 | If suitable provisions ( Clause 19 ) are included in the partnership agreement ( and they are discussed in greater detail in Chapter 7 ) the interests of the firm can be largely protected ( or at any rate damage limited ) : when getting rid of a miscreant partner is likely to be rather easier than dismissing an employee whose thoughts may have turned to taking proceedings for wrongful dismissal . |
| 23 | Mr Fallon said streamlining services and ‘ getting rid of a few managers ’ would benefit patients but moves towards a full merger would not win his support . |
| 24 | You think you can be safe by getting rid of a few hippy revolutionaries you used to know ? |
| 25 | But the country would save £15,000 a year by The Fleet 's demolition , stated The Times , ‘ besides getting rid of an ugly object ’ . |
| 26 | And getting rid of an unwelcome ruler would not actually be novel ; it had happened twice in the fifteenth century , to James I and James III . |
| 27 | When you getting rid of the stupid thing ? |
| 28 | The unionist focus , therefore , has been on getting rid of the Anglo-Irish Agreement and replacing it with something much less intrusive . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |