Example sentences of "rid of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the horse plunged as Jones shook the reins to get rid of the swaying woman who still hung like a limpet , and Anmer rolled over towards the inside rails with Jones underneath . |
| 2 | I 've got rid of the damn thing now . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ They had to get rid of the offensive literature , they could n't burn it , so they scraped it off and grafted back some skin from my arse … |
| 4 | Louise took a couple of inches off Clare 's hair to tidy it up and get rid of the split ends . |
| 5 | I ca n't get rid of the lime-scale mark in my toilet . |
| 6 | The unionist focus , therefore , has been on getting rid of the Anglo-Irish Agreement and replacing it with something much less intrusive . |
| 7 | I could n't get rid of the black Martin , purchased in a moment of island madness instead of a car . |
| 8 | Get rid of the rotten superstructure to make way for better . |
| 9 | I tried everything to get rid of the extra weight with no success . |
| 10 | Miss Nazir warned them to get rid of the stolen property and then went to alert her sister . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | In the sixteenth century , Roman Catholicism was ripe for reform , but Luther 's success depended less on religious conviction than on the determination of the north German princes to be rid of the political influence of Rome . |
| 13 | Farrell did as he was told and retched violently , falling away from Dashwood , feeling his stomach churn , eager to be rid of the disgusting matter inside it . |
| 14 | When you getting rid of the stupid thing ? |
| 15 | 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 ! |
| 16 | Any resistance or reluctance by the scion to take everything , perhaps because it is getting some of what it needs from its own roots , and the stock has to start looking for ways to get rid of the unused energy , and that means making its own top growth , which takes the form of suckers or ‘ briars ’ . |
| 17 | I 'd be glad to get rid of the great ox but I ca n't so there 's an end of it . |
| 18 | They bring me dogs bones for the dogs and they like talking to my parrot I wish I could get rid of the bleeding thing though . |
| 19 | Get rid of the perishing lot . |
| 20 | And now to get rid of the Legato icon . |
| 21 | Suddenly it seemed all important to get rid of the terrible thing . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ Why get rid of the only man in the company who knows anything about selling jewellery in the most important time of the year ? |
| 24 | The first thing is to get rid of the Soviet Union 's presence here . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The wily old president , Ghulam Ishaq Khan , who temporarily joined up with the opposition leader , Benazir Bhutto , in order to get rid of the prime minister , is now scheming against her , too . |
| 27 | Mr Ratner , who is 41 , quickly got rid of the snobby atmosphere which prevails in most independent jewellery stores . |
| 28 | Yet they see nothing inconsistent with objecting to a well-engineered nuclear waste disposal plant which is clearly necessary to dispose safely of irradiated material already created ; or to properly regulated high-combustion chemical waste disposal plants that are the only alternative ( unless we get rid of the chemical industry ) to toxic wastes being dumped surreptitiously in some field or on some beach . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Or , to take it further , had he begun to have hopes for the remainder of the night , and so taken this means to get rid of the other man ? |