1. He has gone, and I'm glad to be rid of him.

2. Yet why should you castrate yourself To be rid of them both?

3. "I want to be exonerated, I want to be acquitted, I want to be rid of all this.

4. 30 He was glad to be rid of the typewriter, though he had been unwilling to part with it until now.

5. 27 He was glad to be rid of the typewriter, though he had been unwilling to part with it until now.

6. For now, though, the central issue was the Duchess whose growing resentment of Harley and Abigail had finally persuaded the Queen to be rid of her.

7. ‘As civil war intensified, Bolshevik attitudes hardened, so that what began as a pragmatic restriction hardened into a determination to be rid of the opposition parties once and for all.’ ‘The success of the Bolshevik revolution produced a realignment of the left and the Communist Party was founded in 1920.’