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1. Very basic it was, but I didn’t miss any of the stuff in storage … I recall I made a decision to get rid of all the clutter once we got it all back, but you know how it is … you never get round to it, or else it has sentimental value and you can’t bring yourself to throw it out
2. Third story: Late at night I watch a film on TV; there is a man who asks a woman to help him get rid of another, dangerous woman
3. How do you get rid of those? She peered at the keyboard frantically reading the, to her, incomprehensible words
4. Fortunately, Kara strenuously resisted this attempt to get rid of her as, when the small vehicle materialised, there was a letter addressed to Kara sitting in it
5. She’d been amazed by the overabundance of cleaning materials that she had correctly guessed would be stored in the cupboard under the sink – some things defy cultural differences! Kneeling on the floor, all the better to examine the various spray containers and bottles piled in there, her amazement turned into confusion … there were plastic spray bottles for limescale removal, disinfecting the worktops … apparently killing 99% of all known germs - though that did raise the question of what danger the remaining 1% presented if it was so vital to get rid of the things … bottles of cream for cleaning the sink and another, lavender scented, for polishing wood, a big bottle of bleach that at least smelt familiar, and noxious substances for cleaning the oven that had signs warning of danger plastered all over them … it was an education
6. Listen now boss, when it's sunset I'll begin the solemn rites asking Athena help us get rid of the looters
7. The gardener told the magician all about the thorns and how he just couldn‘t seem to get rid of the problem because the thorns kept on growing and how when he‘d said to himself in his head
8. Took some persuading though and, in the end, I had to lie about Dave being in a meeting all day to get rid of him
9. 'The sooner you get rid of that flat of yours, Sarah, the better, I reckon
10. ‘I’ve got rats and need to get rid of them
11. While you're at it you can get rid of the van in the other barn
12. "I don't understand", Jock says, washing his mouth out with tea to get rid of the fur on his tongue
13. She knew how he hated that horror, and could have seen it as a good chance to get rid of him, now that they were getting too close to the truth
14. And get rid of that vague feeling that you ought to be doing something useful, like housework
15. We had a day when the Salvation Army came to my house to pick up a lot of I wanted to get rid of
16. He had to get rid of them all
17. "If one of us doesn't get rid of the other, both of us might stand trial for cloning
18. seems that we cannot get rid of it
19. You need to cleanse yourself and get rid of past pain
20. If, in a year of scarcity, therefore, any of them should find that he had a good deal more corn upon hand than, at the current price, he could hope to dispose of before the end of the season, he would never think of keeping up this price to his own loss, and to the sole benefit of his rivals and competitors, but would immediately lower it, in order to get rid of his corn before the new crop began to come in
21. Yogic teaching can, in the words of philosopher Alan Watts, help us “get rid of the hallucination that each one of us is a skin-encapsulated ego
22. “Who the bloody hell have you got there I told you to get rid of them and instead you invite them in
23. She was going to face them as cool as she could, get rid of Jack as fast as she could, and then leave
24. “Thanks a lot mate you don’t know how much it means to me to get rid of that number”, I shrugged as him and his mate grinned form ear to ear
25. I was sure she wouldn’t be able to get rid of the robe, because he was so attached to it
26. But remember, the prisons couldn’t cope with the numbers and were soon overflowing with inmates, so they needed a new way to get rid of criminals
27. They’ll never get rid of me
28. Raven shook his arm out to get rid of the tingles that ran down it
29. If you wanted to get rid of it, that’s one thing, but doing it without even telling me
30. They can’t be that far off because I bet that the only way they will get rid of those diamonds is through your Farringdon Road jewellers
31. What do I say to get rid of this fellow?
32. The important thing was to cover their tracks and get rid of any incriminating information
33. He told Chris, the manager of all the yards in San Jose that he would have to get rid of me and replace me with another man since I didn‘t have a college education
34. Tactics like above (all legal and just business as usual) more often than not leads to the original shareholder being bought out at a very fair price really quickly to get rid of him and his new biker mate
35. After all it took a Civil War to get rid of slaves in America
36. Get rid of it and then half it again
37. Therefore it was not uncommon to find spoor (tracks) crossing the border and the trail leaver using backtracking techniques to get rid of us
38. He had to get rid of his tie and chino pants if he ever wanted to fit in with the locals who only ever wore baggies or shorts, jeans and tee-shirts
39. He had no other material possessions to get rid of
40. But there is still something you need to get rid of – empty folders that are left behind by some applications even when the actual programs are gone
41. She persuaded the United Nations representative to allow the Security Forces to get rid of them which they did
42. The burden was too much for Zosia to bear, so she decided to get rid of him
43. I obtained my visa rather quickly; probably the Poles wanted to get rid of me quickly
44. If he wanted to get any information from the boy, he’d have to get rid of the weapon first, and without getting himself stabbed in the process
45. The IV I could handle, but how the hell was I going to get rid of that?
46. ’ Oh, stop worrying, I’m not giving up on you yet! I must have been out of my mind, but I said that I’d get rid of him before you
47. He really had to get rid of his old fashioned ideas about women
48. There must be a way to get rid of this idiot fairy, but yelling at him was not it
49. A few hours ago she wanted nothing more than to get rid of the “damn fairy” as she had called him
50. Simon decided that he would have to get rid of this danger