Example sentences of "rid [prep] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Getting rid of me had proved too much for him and he was now trying to force through a muddled compromise . |
| 2 | ‘ Tryin , to get rid of me . ’ |
| 3 | The tour in Japan was over and David left — he sailed for Vladivostok — and finally , just to get rid of me as usual ( if you keep making enough noise they 'll get rid of you for a little peace and quiet ) they gave me a visa . |
| 4 | It did n't take him long to realize that one less headache was getting rid of me . |
| 5 | ‘ But … now , thanks to you , he ca n't wait to get rid of me . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm a very strong person and it will take more than that to get rid of me , ’ he said . |
| 7 | ‘ You are in a fair hurry to get rid of me ? |
| 8 | They can get rid of me whenever they like . ’ |
| 9 | Nothing other than an obvious desire to be rid of me . |
| 10 | I love the Christmas services , but I did n't argue with him because I know he means to get rid of me one way or another . |
| 11 | But I 'm sure she 'd let me have it , if only she could get rid of me . |
| 12 | She was jolly glad to get rid of me . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When I was a bairn I loathed and feared these dogs , and as my parents often liked to get rid of me I used to stay for short holidays with both uncles , and so I saw more of the dogs than I liked . |
| 15 | She thought , I do n't doubt , that if she got rid of me he would turn to her , but she 's too fat . |
| 16 | ‘ What 's all the row about ? 'Ave yer med up yer minds ter be rid of me ? ’ she demanded . |
| 17 | As soon as the situation 's normal , you can be rid of me . ’ |
| 18 | I could only attribute my captors ' sudden change of attitude to the fact that they were pleased to be getting rid of me . |
| 19 | Although I had wanted to go away and agreed to go away , when the time came I also felt that I was being pushed out of the nest , and that my parents were glad to be rid of me , in that there would be one fewer person to cater for . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He got rid of me and that should have been the end of it . |
| 22 | ‘ It looks as though they have been trying to get rid of me here for three years . |
| 23 | We used to write songs together and then one day he wanted to get rid of me … |
| 24 | Wanted to get rid of me fast . ’ |
| 25 | He could approach the cataclysmic events of the forthcoming August with an adequate authority ; and he could in the future look back on 1931 with a certain complacency , as ‘ the year my party tried to get rid of me ’ . |
| 26 | " Maybe , but they wo n't get rid of me by making me clasp hands with you . |
| 27 | But just because I promised I 'd make you a rich widow , do n't think you 're going to get rid of me yet . |
| 28 | Relieved to be rid of me . |
| 29 | He was busy , and to get rid of me lie wrote me a letter of introduction to Ahmed Ahmedi , the vice-consul at the embassy . |
| 30 | Abbott said Mrs Reed would be glad to get rid of me . |