Example sentences of "get [verb] of [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , it seemed that Scotland had got rid of her usurper , after a bare three months . |
| 2 | He seizes him and disposes of him in the river like the previous three bodies , and finally gets his pay , the wife being all the more glad for having got rid of her repugnant husband . |
| 3 | A group of constipated patients who were hypnotised then made to feel angry soon got rid of their problem . |
| 4 | Leeds , having apparently got rid of their one bad apple in the week , now suspect the whole orchard might be contaminated . |
| 5 | My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary commented on people who arrive here having torn up or got rid of their documents on the aeroplane . |
| 6 | Having got rid of its international stores chain with the spin-off of InterTan Inc , Tandy Corp is heading back into the international market again and says it expects to open a second SuperCenter store in Stockholm , Sweden in the third quarter ; the company already operates a third SuperCenter in Copenhagen . |
| 7 | Well Belfast International has got rid of its rival and BA has ‘ freedom of the skies . ’ |
| 8 | I expect you thought you had got rid of your two bad pennies ! ' ’ |
| 9 | The maternal instinct ca n't be dumped , even when you 've got rid of your baby . |
| 10 | Having got rid of his shirts in this way , he was reduced to replacing them with crude garments made out of sacking . |
| 11 | ‘ No , we 've got to think of your good name , Maureen , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Then you 've got to think of your references problem is the job that I 'm applying for is working in the school and my reference for primary school is Redland School cos that 's where I was I thought ooh yes that would be laugh if I apply for Redland School yeah great so it 's gon na come under wor work experience and reference I do n't know you can put |
| 13 | No , cunning bitch , she poisoned the feather and got rid of her husband . |
| 14 | And here is another link : at Cyrene , as at the Syracuse of Gelon , Hiero and Polyzalos , monarchy survived from the sixth century , when most of the cities of old Greece got rid of their tyrants , into the fifth . |
| 15 | He said police then surrounded the house and the men got rid of their guns and masks and ‘ attempted to improve their situation by masquerading as robbers ’ . |
| 16 | Last week Germany got rid of its constitutional right to political asylum , the most liberal in Europe . |
| 17 | In Eternity , like the madman in the story who got rid of his devils when they were driven out of him and into the swine , Russia will sit healed at the feet of Jesus . |
| 18 | The local council had suddenly decreed that unless the school caretaker got rid of his dog , he would lose his job and the house that came with it . |
| 19 | Whoever killed him got rid of his own clothes and put them on the body afterwards . ’ |
| 20 | I could n't get rid of my disability , became more staunch in my socialist politics , got rid of my accent and was thankful when my parents put themselves into enormous debt and bought a tip of a house in Croydon . |
| 21 | Then he said : ‘ Actually , as I suppose you know , I got rid of my first wife on to Walter . ’ |
| 22 | Yeah , but that goes , that goes in the lit file , so I got rid of my er with the thirty five I managed to get rid of erm |
| 23 | No , no , that would n't worry me , I just , I said when we got rid of our other sideboard let's do without one and then I looked round and thought well what the dickens am I going to do with all this stuff that we 've got and I just found that we could n't do without it . |
| 24 | Well , having had to avail ourselves of the help of the officer who got rid of our gigantic wasp nest , I should like to say what a superb job they do , but I just wondered in view of the tremendous number , whether there is some kind of way of preventions . |
| 25 | ‘ In any event , ’ went on her employer , black eyes teasing , ‘ you are not getting shot of your duties so readily . |
| 26 | ‘ Man gets shot of his wife , that 's not sad . ’ |
| 27 | But , in both cases , the need for and expense of the stores arises from the nuclear industry 's failure to plan ahead for getting rid of its waste . |
| 28 | To add to Sears ' woes another £82 million went on getting rid of its loss-making menswear arm , which included Fosters . |
| 29 | ‘ They say a soul feels lighter for getting rid of its burden of sin . ’ |
| 30 | When Mrs Moreen bethought herself of this pretext for getting rid of their companion , Pemberton supposed it was precisely to approach the delicate subject of his remuneration ( 7 ) . |