Example sentences of "[vb pp] of [pron] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 ROS : Oh , I 've heard of him all right and I want nothing to do with it .
2 She 'd heard of him all right .
3 I 've never heard of it before well it
4 From what I have seen of it so far , it has very little to recommend it .
5 Then she blurted the thought out : ‘ D' you know I 've never thought of you as really English .
6 I 've thought of you so often . ’
7 He had never thought of it in quite those terms , but it was true .
8 ‘ I 'd never thought of it that openly .
9 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 .
10 So , er , I 'm sure we all know them , how to stop them coming , or get rid of them as soon as possible .
11 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 .
12 ‘ If I could n't get rid of him straight away , then I meant to keep an eye on him , ’ he interrupted grimly .
13 Now , she says : ‘ I wish I had gotten rid of him back then instead . ’
14 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 .
15 So you 're gon na get rid of me early today .
16 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 . ’
17 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 .
18 They may have driven my mother away , but they wo n't get rid of me so easily .
19 But I 'm not in such a hurry to be rid of you just yet .
20 Ca n't ca n't get rid of it fast enough .
21 Ca n't get rid of it fast enough .
22 Yeah , then you better pricing it low and getting rid of it then too high and .
23 ‘ Maybe she just panicked for the moment , wanted to get rid of it as soon as possible . ’
24 If that golf-club was used to attack Alain , the killer would want to get rid of it as quickly as possible . ’
25 The feeling among press and public was that he was too young , too inexperienced , and too much was being asked of him too soon .
26 The main changes will be seen in the long run when you look back , so it is sometimes useful to have photographs taken of yourself just before , and just after , your course of lessons .
27 She had been deprived of him once before , six years ago , before she even knew she loved him , and then she had reacted with an endless rage that she had interpreted as hatred .
28 As the incubation period can be anything from twenty-eight to thirty-six days , with twenty-nine to thirty-two being the norm , Barny must have worked out what was required of him pretty quickly .
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