Example sentences of "when [noun] get [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When Ellen gets here , tell her to pack your things , ’ he ordered curtly , throwing the door open . |
| 2 | When Donnington got home in that ridiculous Home Guard uniform of his and her daughter had torn herself away from those men , then all hell would break loose . |
| 3 | And when Boy got home to his bed he was too tired to sleep or to speak . |
| 4 | It landed in the sand , hopping on to the upslope and , when Lyle got there , he knew he could hit it the required 140 yards to the pin . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's always the same when medics get together . |
| 6 | ‘ When Constanza got there she was told that her mother had made a mistake with her sleeping pills , her maid had been witness to that . |
| 7 | I asked to come to Grendon , I did n't like it when i got here , it took a lot of getting used |
| 8 | When Emmie got home she felt very miserable . |
| 9 | When Jo gets home from school she flies upstairs , gets a flannel and wipes my head . |
| 10 | God has n't given Paul a bag of pills to take when things get hard . |
| 11 | ‘ That 's all ye can do when things get so bad . ’ |
| 12 | Funny thing , she thought as she turned the grubby pages , that people only seem to stop complaining when things get really bad . |
| 13 | Good luck to all of them , and how wonderful it would be if , even when things get tight towards the end , the Jockey Club guidelines on the whip could be remembered . |
| 14 | When things get very black there has to be some echo of the religious sense ; the longing for a sense of redemption is a deep human need . |
| 15 | Now , when things got too bad , she would say to herself , ‘ I can go to Aunt Violet . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ When things got too hot for her at home with Margaret she 'd often spend a night at my flat cooling off . ’ |
| 17 | and erm so that in nineteen eighty , when things got so bad in Salisbury , |
| 18 | When things got really bad , Mr Shakespeare used the whistle . |
| 19 | But when officers got there , the only evidence of the culprits was goose feathers . |
| 20 | When Irina got home that evening Dimitri was not there . |
| 21 | I do n't think I 'd have spotted it myself if I had n't seen the way he reacted the day we found Wolfgang Klein , when Gebrec got so upset . ’ |
| 22 | So th the minus one does n't make a lot of difference , so as X is very , when X gets very big , it 'll just look like Y equals X squared , taking one off if |
| 23 | The trouble comes when people get too enthusiastic and do n't warm up or train enough . |
| 24 | ‘ When Leila gets here , I shall leave the room . |
| 25 | It is interesting that when critics get together and discuss differences of opinion regarding certain recordings , these are almost certainly derived not so much from pure bias , as illfocused thinking . |
| 26 | but , then the next morning of course when Wendy got home she 'd been down my nephew 's looking after the kids for them and erm , and said we 've come to arrest you , and no , oh Rachael said oh mum there 's a police car pulled up outside , so she said , oh my god do n't tell me they 're wrong and it is Tracey , cos Tracey 's left home , she 's gone to live with her friend and erm , anyway , when Wendy got to the stairs she could n't go in , she could n't go any further and she said erm , when , when the policeman said Mrs I 've come to arrest you , she just about said Christ she said what have I done ? |
| 27 | ‘ There was a phone call for you , ’ said Irene , when Juliet got home . |
| 28 | When life gets more interesting one is more responsive , more aware of one 's surroundings and what one is doing ; his answer , inarticulate as it may be , has behind it the authority of ‘ Be aware ’ . |
| 29 | When life gets too stressful , I play a Moody Blues album from end to end . |
| 30 | When Pa gets home ? ’ |