Example sentences of "rid [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was thinking I would boil the sheets that evening and ask the chemist for a powerful disinfectant and give myself a vinegar douche to get rid of all the germs inside me . |
| 2 | The English Parliament , somewhat ungratefully , used the restoration of peace to revive all its old objections to a standing army and eventually forced the king to get rid of all but 10,000 of his 30,000 troops , £350,000 a year being voted for the remainder , considered the minimum needed for home defence . |
| 3 | ‘ She 'll bring back hanging and do something to get rid of all those blacks , ’ said the lady . |
| 4 | If you situate the cable tidy as close to your tank as possible , you can cut the wires on your equipment fairly short , to get rid of all those unsightly trailing cables . |
| 5 | Then I found out that Jim was making all the original pedals as well , so I decided to get rid of all the stuff I 'd been trying to make all these sounds with and just use the original things . |
| 6 | The next stop gets rid of all the glass which is then collected by Pilkingtons for melt-down and re-use . |
| 7 | The passive version can get rid of all the theys and introduce more variety in subject position : |
| 8 | The crystalline regions are held together sideways by hydroxyls which have got rid of all their attached water molecules and once the system has locked solid into a regular crystal , the interstices of the crystal become inaccessible to water . |
| 9 | For instance , why not get rid of all that loose rope and move together on short , taut spacings . |
| 10 | Get rid of all bitterness , rage and anger , brawling and slander , along with every form of malice . |
| 11 | I am always told they you should have a trim every 4–6 weeks to get rid of all the split ends but it seems difficult to grow my hair when it 's constantly being cut . |
| 12 | ‘ If you had an outdoor aerial , ’ said Michael , ‘ you could get rid of all that . ’ |
| 13 | Indeed , a good strong stock needs to be able to get rid of all it has to push into the scion , without any hindrance . |
| 14 | They 've got problems with erm staffing because they got rid of all their staff |
| 15 | Oh you saw er you 'd seen this because er you had friends all over , I mean , the fact that you went to did n't er tt get rid of all your friends . |
| 16 | They must have got rid of all the junk they could find in their store-rooms . |
| 17 | Use a body scrub or a loofah to get rid of all those dead skin cells and once you start to go brown , keep feeding your skin with a rich moisturiser to try to stop the skin flaking . |
| 18 | And that muscle 'll grow over the top of that scar , and it 'll get rid of all that for you Jim . |
| 19 | Perhaps that we should get rid of all the wrong associations with the word ghost , which no longer means what it meant , for example , when the apostles ' creed was first translated into English . |
| 20 | " We 'll have to get rid of all this , " Graham had whispered then , and I had agreed . |
| 21 | He always felt better there , and he still felt like a good wash ; he needed to get rid of all this sweat and clamminess , wash all the dust and the lead off his face and hands . |
| 22 | Get rid of all those untidy stick on notes and post messages the electronic way ! |
| 23 | Well we went into the Rifle Brigade Barracks at Winchester and used to work out at a big house outside of Winchester so we had to march out there and then at the time of Dunkirk , they were looking for places to put all the soldiers that they 'd brought and er , we were cleared out of Barnet , er out of Winchester Barracks and posted up to Nottingham and we worked in the factory , which was taken over by the Army then and erm , and then whilst there , I suppose that was about nineteen what , about nineteen fo coming up to nineteen forty two , they decided to have a recheck or rethink on medicals , so we were all subject to another medical and they put me back to A one and says , right we 're getting rid of all A one personnel out of the Pay Corp , you have a choice Royal Army Ordnance Corp or the Royal Artillery . |
| 24 | Knowing quite happily to just rid of all of that . |
| 25 | So we can get rid of all of those different costly interactions with a computer with er interactions of com of of paper output erm dumb terminal input paper output dumb terminal input . |
| 26 | Will the Minister confirm that in the summer he met a group from Derbyshire county council who asked for £140 million , spread over the next three years , to get rid of all outstanding repairs and make necessary improvements ? |
| 27 | Will he be having any talks with the Cairns group of countries , which involves major food producers such as Australia and New Zealand and is dedicated to getting rid of all subsidies , tariffs and quotas which put extra costs on food , and getting good-quality , cheap food back on the shelves — policies from which our farmers have absolutely nothing to fear ? |
| 28 | Since I had , naturally , got rid of all my Belgian francs , I had to convert sterling in your Ostend office at a somewhat unfavourable rate ( 47.5 Fr to the pound ; the day 's tourist rate quoted in the newspaper was 49.5 , and the previous day I got 50.1 in an Antwerp bank ) . |
| 29 | I think if we got rid of all those open topped tour buses in York , traffic would be a lot easier . |
| 30 | So there 's no chance of getting rid of all these coaches and getting people to walk round the er the guided tours and stuff like that ? |