Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] get the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since I got my FAA seaplane rating a dozen years ago I have become a complete convert to aquatic aviation , trying my hand at it whenever I get the opportunity . |
| 2 | He now grinned ; then looked from Elaine to Charles and said , ‘ You know , you two used always to be sitting like this whenever you got the chance . |
| 3 | She likes to monopolise him whenever she gets the chance . ’ |
| 4 | Abruptness was her most familiar mode , and Liz sometimes fancied that she practised it with peculiar pleasure on Charles , whenever she got the chance : and Charles , accustomed to being listened to with reverence , took it in good part . |
| 5 | And she polished his shoes for him , whenever she got the chance . |
| 6 | We played whenever we got the chance in the evenings and if it did nothing else it kept us out of the bar . |
| 7 | We do bits together whenever we get the chance and ( someday ) will do a brand new one . |
| 8 | In winter we go , whenever we get the chance , to the east coast . |
| 9 | He , like me , loved Scotland , and made for it whenever he got the chance . |
| 10 | Whenever he gets the ball , everybody thinks something is about to happen . |
| 11 | I do n't know how I got the time to play . |
| 12 | She recalls how she got the job from Robert Maxwell in 1982 . |
| 13 | Quite apart from introducing the problem of just how you get the document to the bureau in the first place ( we know of people who have extra hard disks for just this purpose ) the time it takes to run such a document through an imagesetter can be significant in the extreme . |
| 14 | Yes I see how you get the idea but what do the rest of you think of it ? |
| 15 | Right okay , whether they understand yes so how you get the contact with them , yes . |
| 16 | Can you explain how you got the idea ? |
| 17 | So they asked they wanted to know how , how we got the tape . |
| 18 | So the usual thing eventually after five months waiting for payment is to find out the bloody solicitor that told them this you see and inform the the solicitors that er his client has not yet paid us and we it ought to be done and eventually that 's how we get the money . |
| 19 | But I wan na know how they get the dog to walk on the ceiling . |
| 20 | We will not find out why unemployment and heroin use are connected , why large groups of young men and women have taken on heroin use for the first time , or how they get the street money , without talking to them . |
| 21 | ‘ He won enough to set himself up in his own business , so if you see a ‘ Terimon Cafe ’ on the outskirts of London you 'll know how it got the name . ’ |
| 22 | And , and how it got the name Hole , was there 's supposed to be gold buried somewhere up there , but what quantity or anything about it I can not tell you . |
| 23 | We talked about that for a while and that was when I got the idea of using the mud wagon-not just for him but for the McLaren girl too , and just like before I could see myself sitting in it with her . |
| 24 | That was when I got the gun out . |
| 25 | Back in a couple hours when I get the stuff together . ’ |
| 26 | Never guess where I got the shirt from will you ? |
| 27 | Guess where I got the story ? ’ |
| 28 | That 's where I got the idea . |
| 29 | And that was where I got the knowledge about the extra money , and that is the only thing that I remember about from him . |
| 30 | ’ I just stood up to him one day — do n't ask me where I got the nerve from , because he was a bloody big geezer . |