Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] of [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the urgent business she 'd spoken of to Silvia . |
| 2 | Molly drove skilfully back down the road , taking the short cut to what she had already grown to think of as home . |
| 3 | But at least they could hold off within the value of what they now held , and were empowered to dispose of to advantage . |
| 4 | ‘ The half-hundred Italian ruffians who are now rollicking about Whitechapel and Stepney with their stilettoes and bowie-knives ’ , together with their legionnaire friends , could be ‘ got rid of at once ’ through deportation . |
| 5 | I read somewhere , at some stage , some problem that 's got rid of by using Share . |
| 6 | Either can be got rid of by bleeding the radiator at the air vent ( page 154 ) , but if this needs doing frequently , find the cause of the air getting in or the corrosion and cure . |
| 7 | Those in the bottom right-hand group should probably be got rid of by withdrawing all investment and selling everything that can be made . |
| 8 | This was to ensure that he or she would not be pressurized to publish things against their judgement or be got rid of in favour of an outsider who would change the paper 's political line . |
| 9 | Now if we 're going to try and eliminate the prob the sort of problems , then really we 've got to think of on an international regulatory basis , rather than just in the U K. |
| 10 | It 's changed over the years , but it 's still for what I 'd like to think of as the intelligent , discerning young music fan . ’ |
| 11 | However there was a y'know significant minority who were not media sensitive , who seemed to send out messages pretty well at random erm they 'd use whatever medium they happened to think of at the t off the spur of the moment rather than actually relating the medium to the message if you like . |
| 12 | either erm because redundancies are coming up , or Imperial trustees down , they were just got ridden of as a way of moving them off the trust . |
| 13 | either erm because redundancies are coming or as Imperial Trustees found , they were just got ridden of as a way of moving them off the trust . |
| 14 | The Woodlands Hospice Charitable Trust will be based near Fazakerley Hospital to help care of for people living in South Sefton , North Liverpool and Kirkby . |
| 15 | It was a process of automatic writing such as she had heard tell of in the sillier drawing-rooms of the county where idle men and women amused and , she suspected , sometimes alarmed themselves by tinkering in realms they did not understand ; except that this was very different , for the entirety of her intellect was engaged . |
| 16 | everybody here will be aware of that , turning the house inside out , erm , getting rid of of all the old things and I |
| 17 | His hope of getting rid of at least half of Beador 's worthless debt proved far too sanguine ; if they unloaded a quarter , they would count themselves fortunate . |
| 18 | The figures for this year show that £20 million-worth of coal will be imported to Britain by the end of December — the equivalent of closing 20 average-sized pits and getting rid of between 20,000 and 25,000 miners by throwing them on the scrap heap . |
| 19 | However , that figure is a far cry from the 3,000 it had bet on getting rid of in the Orient or the couple of thousand forecast for the states . |
| 20 | Again it amused him to note the general application of what he was beginning to think of as Wexford 's Law . |
| 21 | No it sounds like one you wo n't have heard of on that , the big old LP 's that me and Nicola , Nicola for a birthday , that erm , school love he used to be er , oh I du n no what was his name ? |
| 22 | Advances in electronic and micro processors enabling fuel to be delivered in the right quantity and at the optimum time in the combustion process now allow an efficiency to be achieved that Dr Rudolf Diesel could never have dreamed of in 1892 . |
| 23 | And any hope Laura might have had of at last having that ‘ long talk ’ which Ross had so faithfully promised her had been dashed on opening the front door of the apartment . |
| 24 | But the question must arise : what was it that Handel and his assistant would have thought of as a large harpsichord in 1750 ? |
| 25 | Then , if you have that necessary possession for any writer , luck , your subconscious will provide you with developments you never could have thought of in cold blood . |
| 26 | And if he willingly takes on his share of household and parental duties , he may still have to contend with the scorn expressed by some old-fashioned ‘ macho ’ types who would not dream of being seen to do what they continue to think of as ‘ women 's work ’ . |
| 27 | a lot of people would think , Ah oh X to the sixth well he must have started of with X to the seventh . |
| 28 | Newco will wish to attribute as much of the purchase price as possible to those of the assets which are likely to increase in value , but which Newco may be intending to dispose of at a later date , so as to minimise the gain arising on the disposal ( and to maximise the amount of base cost which can be indexed for capital gains tax purposes , again to reduce the ultimate gain ) . |
| 29 | And we bought a Then a , do n't seem to have heard of in a kitchen . |
| 30 | I do know of at least one shop owner who has been bitten , and of dozens of nets that have been chewed through during a fish transfer . |