Example sentences of "rid [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can rid of the ‘ DO — IT ! ’ at the end of you 'd rather check it manually . |
| 2 | In American movies , he 's the perennial urban weakling-adolescent , doomed to swallow spit forever , but here , rid of the frightened , choked-up voice that constricts his characters , he gives a softer-edged , more relaxed performance . |
| 3 | Liberalism meant the sovereignty of the nation , not merely a Spain divided into ‘ rational ’ provinces and rid of the Inquisition and monks . |
| 4 | Iraq ( itself fully independent since 1932 , and rid of the monarchy with its London connections since 1958 ) claimed that it owned Kuwait . |
| 5 | We will not have got rid of nostalgia , he wrote , till we have got rid of the sky . |
| 6 | In order to get rid of the whole web of interlinked concepts , myths , wishes and desires , one has to mine it from within . |
| 7 | Unable to get rid of the feeling that the glass belongs to another time , another person . |
| 8 | If aphids are a big problem outside too , buy some ICI Rapid to get rid of the lot . |
| 9 | If full airbrakes are needed for more than a few seconds , and it looks as though they should be kept on , sideslipping should be used to get rid of the excess height so that for the last part of the approach less than full airbrake approach is required . |
| 10 | The slip is used just to get rid of the excess height so that less than full airbrake is required for the rest of the approach . |
| 11 | Some emergency systems require operation of both the normal canopy catch and the jettison lever , and even then need a strong push up to get rid of the canopy . |
| 12 | I had to be rid of the English boy . |
| 13 | ‘ YOU 'VE got to get rid of the males , ’ David Gardner said with such fierce determination that he conjured up an image of concentration camps for male hops in remote parts of Kent . |
| 14 | A younger generation , or at least a younger American generation , has been brought up on a list of acid tests , invented to get rid of the boiled oatmeal consistency of the bad verse of 1900 , and there is no doubt that many young readers seeing Binyon 's inversions , etc. , will be likely to throw down the translation under the impression that it is incompetent . |
| 15 | ‘ At the risk of deeply shocking you , I have to say that in relation to small claims , we have to get rid of the lawyers . ’ |
| 16 | Mr Kinnock said it was wrong to propose a fundamental change in the voting system for a short-term tactical vote to get rid of the Thatcher Government . |
| 17 | AS WE turn , discussion falls on the possibility of getting rid of the stones . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | At the Saulnier farm ( 6 Commando area ) I washed my arm in the cattle trough but could not get rid of the smell . |
| 21 | Phoebe was suddenly grateful for her mother 's calm and decision ; if anyone could get rid of the London fire brigade it would be Rachel . |
| 22 | There is a ‘ conveyor belt ’ effect and it is almost impossible in the system for young people to get rid of the effect of a criminal record . |
| 23 | They proposed getting rid of the philistines found along Wardour Street , London 's Film Row , wiping out the middle-class personnel who had been creeping into the director 's chair , or introducing a bunch of amateurs into the business . |
| 24 | Louise took a couple of inches off Clare 's hair to tidy it up and get rid of the split ends . |
| 25 | The team physiotherapist , Alejandro Koch , has been banned for a year because , in Fifa 's words , he was ‘ an accomplice of the doctor ’ , as has the kit man , N Maldonado , because ‘ he got rid of the gloves and jersey of the goalkeeper ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ Within the limits of detection , we have got rid of the Aids virus . ’ |
| 27 | Kvallposten claimed that immediately after the search Mr Talb 's ex-wife telephoned a Palestinian family in Uppsala and ordered them to ‘ get rid of the clothing ’ . |
| 28 | They remind me a little of Georges Bataille 's pre-war secret cult , Acephale , whose goal was to get rid of the head — starting with the moral guardian in one 's own head , the super-ego , then moving on to all the other ‘ heads ’ ( the father , the State , the Law , God ) . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Once rid of the tasks of allotting routes and setting fares , governments could concentrate on the function that rightly belongs to them : expanding the capacities of airports and air-traffic-control systems . |