Example sentences of "when [pers pn] got [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed disappointed and I soon saw why when I got into the main hall . |
| 2 | When I got to the first rehearsal she announced , ‘ You 're all going to be in the Command Performance . ’ |
| 3 | But I was okay when I got to the first tee . ’ |
| 4 | I can not say that my school days were particularly happy ones and I was not sorry to leave when I got to the official leaving age , which was fourteen in those days . |
| 5 | And what we used to do to begin with the canal used to dip in the middle , you know there was bike wheels and dead cats and everything in it , and it used to dip and , and there was a sludge and , and the barges used to go up and down with a horse pulling them , and in the middle there was a , so you could n't bottom it in the middle , so when I learnt to swim I used to dive off this ledge and go under the water so far and I , I could reach the bottom when I got to the other side . |
| 6 | When she got to the first landing , her mother 's bedroom door suddenly flew open and her mother burst out . |
| 7 | The first thing Carlie did when she got to the foster home was pull the plastic footrest up close to the TV : ‘ Do n't talk to me when ‘ Young and Restless ’ is on , ’ she warned the foster mother who was standing behind her . |
| 8 | I mean I do n't know whether she thought she could put them in the garden when she got to the new place and they 'd grow but |
| 9 | When she got to the large graph that shows the state of the church-roof appeal , she stopped and looked down at the waiting crowds as if she was a victorious politician looking down on her compliant voters . |
| 10 | She had recently been knitting double jacquard , but when she got to the very top of a sleeve , she had a little disaster and dropped the lot ! |
| 11 | When she got to the little clearing she halted , seeing Léonie there on her knees , looking up at the outcrop of rock . |
| 12 | My nerves were really jangling when we got to the 17th , the Road Hole . |
| 13 | When we got to the 17th , the last par-5 , he hit his third shot about three feet behind the pin , but he turned to me and said , ‘ You know , Pete , I 'm so damned nervous I ca n't see the hole . |
| 14 | When we got to the halfway camp , two of us were not feeling up to the rest of the climb , and spent the night there . |
| 15 | We went with Traffens one year , the first year in fact we went with Traffens and that was super because when we got to the other side sort of , it was then about ten o'clock he said well if you if there 's enough people want it we will transform your transform your seats into bunks and most people wanted and you were able to push the seats so one , two pairs of seats one of the seats went up and the other went down and you had four bunks |
| 16 | And when we got to the other end one of the lads actually walked in and did a waltz into the school with it which the kids thought was great . |
| 17 | What happened to them when they got to the other end I have never dared to ask , but perhaps these few illustrations ( pages 82–83 ) will convince you that Doc Winfield actually sat in this contraption and was hooked from a completely static position by an aircraft into the air and probably ( and I never found out ) delivered to some hospital none the worse for the experiment . |
| 18 | The orphans were hungry as well as tired , and the first thing they did when they got to the disused school in Malvern where they 'll be based was to tuck into a slap-up meal . |
| 19 | When they got near the large boxes , Christopher stood up inside the car and lifted it round to turn it . |
| 20 | When he got to the High Street , he saw Hasan and Aziz walking up to the Common . |
| 21 | ‘ And when he got to the last slide , ’ Channell recalled , ‘ he suddenly became so powerfully emotive it was just like his whole spirit exploded . |
| 22 | When he got to the fourth screen he stood it up for her to inspect . |
| 23 | And it did n't worry him when he got into the sensitive parts with his drill ; my strangled cries were of no avail and he carried on remorselessly to the end : I had the impression that Hector thought it was cissy to feel pain , or maybe he was of the opinion that suffering was good for the soul . |