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1  I've got a wife that I can't get rid of.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 2
2  Perhaps Big Brother was merely getting rid of a too-popular subordinate.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
3  You must get rid of those nineteenth-century ideas about the laws of Nature.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 3
4  Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
5  No imaginable committee would ever sanction such a marriage even if Katharine, Winston's wife, could somehow have been got rid of.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 3
6  She walked obliquely away across the grass as though trying to get rid of him, then seemed to resign herself to having him at her side.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 6
7  Even the written instructions which Winston received, and which he invariably got rid of as soon as he had dealt with them, never stated or implied that an act of forgery was to be committed: always the reference was to slips, errors, misprints, or misquotations which it was necessary to put right in the interests of accuracy.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4