Example sentences of "when [pron] get a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hopefully when I get a new tank set up , I will have more success in numbers by going by the book . |
| 2 | And when I get a first-class degree , which I hope to do , I 'll be forgiven because I 'll bring status to the family . |
| 3 | I was doing some mental arithmetic , counting up what was in my wire basket , when I got a great dig in the backside . |
| 4 | Not even when I got a new baby was it . |
| 5 | When I got a frozen willy |
| 6 | I do admire it when somebody gets a good score . |
| 7 | But I think when you get a certain age |
| 8 | Maybe just a little front page you know wh look at the big revisions for the sales department or something like that instead of just , when you get a new telephone directory , putting it in your folder and binning the old one , make certain people realise there 've been changes . |
| 9 | As he explores the poetry of Byron at Salisbury he works hard at his arithmetic and English composition until he is ‘ chosen as fit to enter the Civil Service , to hold for the rest of my active life time the pen that is mightier ( when you get a good one ) than the sword ( when you get a bad one ) . ’ |
| 10 | when you get a low one and you get seven . |
| 11 | ‘ Aquarius , Taurus , Leo and Scorpio figure very strongly in the Royal Family 's charts and very strongly in Diana 's , so when you get a powerful connection like that with marriage partners it can either be the most sensationally passionate ‘ I ca n't leave you alone for a minute ’ or it 's ice . |
| 12 | WHEN you get a gippy tummy , which meal are you more likely to blame — last night 's curry , or yesterday 's sandwich lunch ? |
| 13 | That would be when you get a maximum value of this product of the Z scores , Z X times Z Y . |
| 14 | As he explores the poetry of Byron at Salisbury he works hard at his arithmetic and English composition until he is ‘ chosen as fit to enter the Civil Service , to hold for the rest of my active life time the pen that is mightier ( when you get a good one ) than the sword ( when you get a bad one ) . ’ |
| 15 | Well I think it 's not a superstructure that 's been put there because , I mean , for example when you get a particular idea there are often other questions you can ask to check whether it 's really present , to see whether the thing is alluded to at the appropriate point later in the plot and that sort of thing . |
| 16 | Well , I think it 's not erm a superstructure that 's been put there , because , I mean for example when you get a particular idea , there are often other questions you can ask to check whether it 's really present , to see whether the thing is alluded to at the appropriate point later in the plot and that sort of thing , and erm again and again you find that it is , that the thing you half suspected is mentioned by a character later . |
| 17 | But when you get a senior foreign statesman commenting abroad how much the world respects Mrs Thatcher — that 's a real PR coup . |
| 18 | Roll it out , when you get a rolling pin and roll it out , that 's when you need the cutters to make the shapes you see . |
| 19 | You 've got a couple of , you get blips you got a blip in nineteen ninety on the community charge when you got a high turn out in London boroughs especially , yeah ? |
| 20 | Three loose hounds were in there ; one , she was sure when she got a good look , was a bitch , Wrathful , who had impressed her that memorable day last February . |
| 21 | Marie gets all excited when she gets a good idea — suddenly she 's all full of energy and she ca n't sit still . |
| 22 | When we getting a new car ? |
| 23 | I think we had something like eight and a half months without rain and there 's the feeling , quite often , that when we get a good summer in this country , people assume that the next summer will be just as good . |
| 24 | Is it possible when we get a new member of , that , not that they 're brought round , which I think must be frightfully intimidating , but that we are told , and therefore we can drop in and say , hello , I 'm so and so , just to say hello . |
| 25 | I said when we get a new er new chiller on there , that will cut that out . |
| 26 | Anyhow , I 'll ask him when we get a new quote . |
| 27 | I think we have salvaged the L M S Scheme in and when we get a national Labour Government we 'll be able to make sure that it protects , it protects , those children with special needs , those children from socially deprived backgrounds in this city and protects our most experienced teachers . |
| 28 | A FUNNY GAME ‘ WHEN we got a 12-horsepower roller I assumed we were getting a horse as well ’ |
| 29 | Now they say that even when they get a new manager , they could not return to the traditional pattern of advice workers advising and the manager doing the rest . |
| 30 | They were cleaned until you could see your face in them and fellows were so keen that when they got a new tunic , they would cut all their new buttons off , and put their old buttons on that were beautifully shined . |