Example sentences of "get [vb pp] of the old [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | And nationalisation : that was great because it got rid of the old bosses . |
| 4 | ‘ Ca n't think why we ever got rid of the old bat . |
| 5 | But now what 's happening is , they 're getting rid of the old ones cos they pay them too much ! |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | At last one day Martin said to Mihal , " Why do n't we get rid of the old man ? |
| 8 | I thought the whole thing had been a set-up — to get rid of the old President and his Communist allies . |