verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
help
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Courses do not always help to get rid of this feeling and can even make it worse.
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That will help get rid of too many managers.
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She also aims to help Joe Public get rid of those niggling aches and pains.
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Their insights and empowerment helped us get rid of lots of dumb practices, and to cut off problems at their source.
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We will explain why you mishit and help you to rid your game of these destructive shots.
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This will help rid him of disease, suppress immunity and create bone marrow space.
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Filling up immediately behind the wall with porous material such as ballast or gravel will also help to get rid of surplus water.
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It's alleged he cut his thumb on the broken glass and that Paterson helped him get rid of the bloodstained clothing.
try
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As if he was trying to get rid of a whole cloud of false ideas I probably had about it.
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I began slapping myself all over, trying to rid myself of the dust I had accumulated on the trip.
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She tried to get rid of the baby, but a friend said the abortion could kill Ethel.
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Jezrael inhaled freshness, trying to rid her nostrils of that cloying, heavy scent.
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And just you try and get rid of it.
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In giving most people middle-class aspirations it tried to rid the nation of its old-fashioned class structure.
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I tried everything to get rid of the extra weight with no success.
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I therefore put quite a lot of effort into trying to get rid of this embarrassing effect.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He had ridden to her rescue like a knight on a white charger and now he was insulting her.
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Raving Red Sam had ridden a motor-bike once, she remembered, a job that had been much admired by the boys.
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The penny farthing made its first appearance in 1870 and was ridden round the world in 1884.
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The young Lieutenant had ridden on to the blade, and Sharpe had felt nothing.
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With a microwave, he calculates, we could get rid of our cook.
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Your job is to clear up, first to saw those branches up, to rid all major branches of smaller branches.