Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Sharif , meanwhile , is stomping around the country , vowing to get rid of the president when he gets back into power . |
| 2 | The pair arrived with money and dispatches written in invisible ink that were to be handed over to one of the leaders of the insurrectionary party in Spain , currently conspiring to get rid of the autocratic King Ferdinand and currently enjoying the support of idealistic and poetical young Englishmen . |
| 3 | It was decided at the last cash crisis meeting to get rid of the grandstand and claim the insurance , only local radio jockey , Keith Labone , thought there might be some insurance fiddle on the go . |
| 4 | He argued that consultants were tending to stay put by the mid-1980s because of the much higher start-up costs now involved in setting up an executive search firm , which he estimated as at least £250 000 , or ten times the figure he invested back in 1973 . |
| 5 | It 's probably gon na be a damn good book because of all the businesses wanting to get associated with the doctor . |
| 6 | Crowds generally thin out around the Isle of Dogs loop between 15 and 19 miles , so if you 're looking to get rid of the rest of the watching population , head for Canary Wharf , the complex will be open on the day to spectators . |
| 7 | Seeking to become domiciled in the United Kingdom |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm going to get dressed in the twins ’ room , and I suggest you do the same in here , as quickly as possible . |
| 9 | ‘ We shall break the historic habit because we shall not just get elected tomorrow to clear up the mess , we are going to get re-elected at the next general election as well , ’ he said . |
| 10 | You 're going to get charged for the amount going through will be a hundred electrons per second times sixty seconds . |
| 11 | I have noticed before when surfing that time seems to slow up the moment I realize I 'm going to get trashed by the next wave … ! |
| 12 | Everybody , unless they 've been had their head in the ground for the last thirteen years , know damn well that they 're not going to get housed off the needs register particularly quickly and they only go to people who are most unable to be housed by any other means are going to bother even to put their names on the needs register . |
| 13 | At the same time he knows a lot of this is going to get known by the people who matter and he does n't want to be the man who hindered the investigation . |
| 14 | who who do you think , I mean , th , you know , the government 's making it pretty clear at the moment , Mrs , that that er , in these troubled times something 's gon na get squeezed because there 's so m , many people out of work that gi , you know , they 're having to pay more unemployment benefit , there 's not enough tax money coming and and generally the government is hard up , so someone 's going to get squeezed in the social security system . |
| 15 | He was fixing to get rid of the first one in the divorce courts . |
| 16 | The description by Jill Tweedie of the organic sheep farmer I was travelling to meet bounced from the page : ‘ This once respectable female stripped off and began sitting around in front of cameras with her legs apart and her hands in unmentionable places . ’ |
| 17 | It has not escaped the fate of having to get rid of the father . |
| 18 | The widower will receive many more invitations out to meals in other people 's homes in the early days too , and he will have the advantage of never having to feel trapped in the isolation of an empty house in the evenings ; for if his emotional condition after his wife 's death is reasonably steady and he feels the need of company , he can always stroll out to the local pub for a drink , where he can remain in complete control of the amount of conversation he wants , or can endure , and can head for home again just when he feels like it . |
| 19 | She was already starting to feel battered by the increased level of the sound , and it was a relief to get out into the lower buzz and the cooler lights . |
| 20 | This is also the period when he hired as chauffeur and typist a young man , Alfred Agostinelli , who drove him to the seaside in a closed car , took him by the same means to visit many Romanesque churches in Normandy , and who was killed when the plane he was learning to fly crashed into the sea off Antibes in nineteen fourteen . |
| 21 | ‘ We were n't expecting this but we have been campaigning to get rid of the car tax for 20 years . |
| 22 | I do remember fighting to stay balanced on the rock and not managing it , I do remember that when the world came back into focus I could not see out of my left eye . |
| 23 | George Singleton , a dab hand at composing missives purporting to have originated under the pens of famous people of the past , supplied pencilled drafts of same . |
| 24 | Although they will gallop around trying to get rid of the bot-fly , they seem to quickly discover that the bot will not follow them into the dense shade of a shelter shed or stable . |
| 25 | If were to drink a litre of sea water , we would actually lose an extra third of a litre of water from our bodies in trying to get rid of the salt , and also run the risk of severe damage to the kidneys . |
| 26 | I sat up and she was kneeling beside me , picking at herself disgustedly , trying to get rid of the fungi and moulds . |
| 27 | 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 ! |
| 28 | You 're not planning to get married in the future then ? |