Example sentences of "rid of [pron] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 When he came back he had their passports and documents in his hand and it seemed that he could not get rid of them quickly enough .
2 So , er , I 'm sure we all know them , how to stop them coming , or get rid of them as soon as possible .
3 Now this I dependably find a real throw-up number but there 's never anything too horrendous because , as my colleagues are always saying , we 're at the darning-and-patching level of the biomedical business : the serious cases we bring in direct , and at speed , from the city hospitals , and we in our turn get rid of them as quickly as we can .
4 ‘ If I could n't get rid of him straight away , then I meant to keep an eye on him , ’ he interrupted grimly .
5 Now , she says : ‘ I wish I had gotten rid of him back then instead . ’
6 He made doubly sure I realised I was an outcast in a heavy-handed way — and he could n't get rid of me fast enough .
7 So you 're gon na get rid of me early today .
8 Then she said : ‘ So you see , I 'm making myself as unpleasant as I can — and I assure you I can ! — to make them want to get rid of me as soon as possible . ’
9 Then the other one , whom your sister thinks must be the owner of the farm , apologized for a ‘ case of mistaken identity ’ , as he called it , and got rid of me as quickly as possible .
10 They may have driven my mother away , but they wo n't get rid of me so easily .
11 But I 'm not in such a hurry to be rid of you just yet .
12 Ca n't ca n't get rid of it fast enough .
13 Ca n't get rid of it fast enough .
14 Yeah , then you better pricing it low and getting rid of it then too high and .
15 ‘ Maybe she just panicked for the moment , wanted to get rid of it as soon as possible . ’
16 If that golf-club was used to attack Alain , the killer would want to get rid of it as quickly as possible . ’
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