1 He was a boring nuisance! I'm glad to be rid of him.

2 I was glad to be rid of the car when I finally sold it.

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

4 The family had sought a way to be rid of her and the problems she had caused them.

5 I'd give anything to be rid of this headache.

6 I wanted it to go. Be rid of it.

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

8 Anxious to be rid of the interruption, Madame Weill carefully brought the offending nude inside.

9 If Frank wanted to be rid of me, he would be.

10 I am glad to be rid of them, but the thousands of species outdoors delight me.

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

12 GM was secretly delighted to be rid of Knudsen.

13 I'm glad to be rid of this old clunker.

14 The visitors were glad to be rid of their raincoats.

15 I also know that I could be rid of him with a single bullet.

16 The experiment shows that, the pyrochlore phase can be rid of by the precursor synthesis.

17 The world will be rid of bullying, of invasions of innocent countries based on blatant lies, of torture and murder of woman and children, of redistribution of income from the poor to the rich.

18 Philip smiled when he thought that he would be rid of him for ever.

19 He was glad to be rid of that chattering, hideous, and fantastic creature.

20 One day her step - mother decided to be rid of her.

21 She shook her head as though to be rid of that, then tossed it back.

22 I didn't enjoy marking those papers and I was glad to be rid of them.

23 be rid of sb/sth to be free of sb/sth that has been annoying you or that you do not want: She wanted to be rid of her parents and their authority.

24 The clerical part of his job was tedious, and he was glad to be rid of it.

25 You were slobbering all over me, telling me how glad you were to be rid of him.

26 But the exercise of editing had become for him a mechanical one, and he was glad to be rid of it.

27 It was a habit of disguise that she recognized as costly but could not be rid of.

28 I decided to kill it, to put poison down and be rid of it.

1 I didn't enjoy marking those papers and I was glad to be rid of them.

2 be rid of sb/sth to be free of sb/sth that has been annoying you or that you do not want: She wanted to be rid of her parents and their authority.

3 I was glad to be rid of the car when I finally sold it.

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