Example sentences of "get [vb pp] of the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By evicting smelly plastic items ( see p 174 ) you have already got rid of the worst de-gassers . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And had n't we got rid of the American troops from Vietnam ? |
| 4 | I thought I 'd actually got rid of the damned things . |
| 5 | And it has also got rid of the yellow lines which once scarred them . |
| 6 | Few ever recovered their status in society , he said , or got rid of the bad habits they contracted while there . |
| 7 | And nationalisation : that was great because it got rid of the old bosses . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But now what 's happening is , they 're getting rid of the old ones cos they pay them too much ! |
| 10 | Louise took a couple of inches off Clare 's hair to tidy it up and get rid of the split ends . |
| 11 | But there 's still the need to first get rid of the modern slums which replaced the Victorian slums standing when the tower block was just a few lines on an architect 's sketch board . |
| 12 | The first woman president of the Co-operative Congress , Margaret Llewelyn Davies in the year of her retirement , 1922 , declared : ‘ Our programme transfers the power of capitalism into the hands of the people organised democratically as consumers ; makes capital the servant of labour ; allows for a partnership with the workers ; abolishes profit , socialises rent , and will ultimately get rid of the present wages system . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You stay here and think it over quietly — ’ he put another glass of wine in her hand — ‘ and I 'll go and see if I can get rid of the remaining folks . ’ |
| 14 | Private companies can get rid of the pre-emptive rights — by altering their articles , again by special resolution — unless and until the articles are altered by deleting the relevant clause . |
| 15 | It would never get rid of the damned things permanently but at least it would give the Ryans a breathing space . |
| 16 | A There is no need to have your hair cut short to get rid of the bleached highlights before you have your hair coloured back to its natural shade . |
| 17 | And th , think they 're having a real problem in Birmingham as well the they 're , trying to get rid of them and they 're down the sewers all the time trying to get rid of the bloody things ! |
| 18 | Changes in the ways employment , training and welfare policies operate need to be brought about so as to get rid of the many disincentives that exist for women wishing to return to training or employment . |
| 19 | Everywhere that is coloured white will be transparent in the movie itself , so I have had to use the drawing tools to get rid of the coloured bits of the background . |
| 20 | to get rid of the artificial distinctions which the historical development of the law had drawn between land and movable property — leaving only those distinctions which are due to the natural qualities of these two forms of property ; |
| 21 | As hospital staff try to get rid of the last traces of CS gas from the department many are still recovering from the ordeal , which left them and a number of their patients suffering the effects of the gas . |