Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] rid [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well now , in the forest , besides the old man and his grandsons , there lived a tribe of goblins , hairy little creatures known as vookodlaks , whose greatest wish it was to get rid of the sun and live in darkness . |
| 2 | They remind me a little of Georges Bataille 's pre-war secret cult , Acephale , whose goal was to get rid of the head — starting with the moral guardian in one 's own head , the super-ego , then moving on to all the other ‘ heads ’ ( the father , the State , the Law , God ) . |
| 3 | I remind the Minister that , when the National Bus Company subsidiaries were sold off to the private sector , the first thing that the private company did in many instances was to get rid of the management because of its dissatisfaction with it . |
| 4 | The whole point of those reforms was to get rid of the food mountains . |
| 5 | No , it was to get rid of the Health Service . |