Example sentences of "when [pron] [adv] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I finally got through to Taff to enquire about what sort of night he had had , and if there had been many casualties during the barrage , his reply was rather matter of fact . |
| 2 | Dreadful nightmares , when I finally got off to sleep , of men attacking me — like that man who had to cut women on their arms before he could find them desirable . |
| 3 | I got bowled over twice and lost sight of Greg completely , but when I finally got back alongside him at the green he was really excited . |
| 4 | It was five-thirty in the morning , and when I finally got to sleep I was hating those birds . |
| 5 | When I finally got up onto the wing it was dark . |
| 6 | When I finally got through to him he said very brusquely , ‘ Do n't phone again . |
| 7 | But when I finally got to bed again it was well into Monday morning and it was Monday afternoon when I surfaced and there was a policeman on the door and it had n't been a nightmare after all . |
| 8 | when I finally got to the start line at 9.41 am I started to pick my way through the crowd , with difficulty . |
| 9 | I thought I 'd gone before I came out of my house but I had a feeling when I nearly got to their school that I ought to have again . |
| 10 | When I eventually got downstairs she said to my Dad , ‘ Tell him his breakfast 's in the oven if he wants it . ’ |
| 11 | Already I had had presentiments of the satisfaction I would feel when I eventually got the bag home — the huge relief as I unpacked my treasures . |
| 12 | When I eventually got home the crumpet packet was lying empty on the kitchen floor while Bilbo Baggins , the new puppy my daughters had brought home from the dogs ' home , was lying full beside it . |
| 13 | When I eventually got off the bus back in Maseru I nearly collapsed , such was my weakness . |
| 14 | When I actually got to court there was more charges than there should have been . |
| 15 | Well er anyway as it , as it worked out , although I did a lot of s sloshing about , erm when I actually got to erm on to the four one four and I followed that through to the M one and straight up and I was running parallel with the M twenty five , virtually |
| 16 | If you get somebody putting six hundred pounds for holidays , I 'll be thinking mhm you know , they 're not going to be able to do a lot on six hundred pounds a year , but when I actually get to talk to them I find they 've got a caravan , and a friend who 's got a site in North er er in North Yorkshire . |
| 17 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |
| 18 | I 'ad to hit him with an ornament , and when his fam'ly got back from church 'is wife asked him what 'ad happened to his face . |
| 19 | When you finally get down to it , the machine knows how reluctant you are , so it play up in all the ways it can think of . |
| 20 | When you eventually get on to any committee it is surprising how quickly the esteem in which you are held grows when you can conduct yourself with confidence in the meetings . |
| 21 | A night out was not complete without a gamble on the station machine , when the agony of nine successive defeats would be replaced by euphoria when you actually got your bar . |
| 22 | She goes , she goes well you might say that now but when you actually get there you 'll really want to . |
| 23 | Well erm , what do ya realize when you actually get your own badges and have a look at it , it 's something like eighty five percent of it is taken up with |
| 24 | Yes , well all I 'm going to do is introduce it to you , and when you actually get back he 'll know more about it probably . |
| 25 | I do n't know how you can be so tired when you only get up at half past ten in the morning ! |
| 26 | Well the total is always three sixty all the way round but was this when you had a million pound pocket money or when you only got four pence a week . |
| 27 | ‘ If you promise not to tell anyone , ’ Margaret said , when she finally got to see a doctor , ‘ I nearly had it done the old way , you know , with a knitting needle , then I lost my nerve . ’ |
| 28 | She was holding her breath when she finally got through to Tracey 's extension . |
| 29 | I 'll see Betty there he said when she bloody gets on the counters . |
| 30 | We thought all our problems were over when we finally got the rig set up , but now we 've got to examine a deluge of fresh rock ! ’ |