Example sentences of "[conj] when [pers pn] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the young couples moving into the area were those who had dropped out of church life when they had left home to go to university , or when they got married . |
| 2 | Oh , he said , two o'clock or when we get done . |
| 3 | when ? , what in France or when we got back or what ? , or before ? , how long have you fancied him for ? |
| 4 | The Krísuvík pools are not signed , either on the road or when you get there . |
| 5 | Or when you get back … ‘ |
| 6 | They called him Toby in the boarding annexe , ‘ sir ’ in the school , except when they got it mixed up . |
| 7 | Inside our house there were stone floors , coal fires , oil lamps , but I do n't remember ever feeling any sense of cold or discomfort , except when I got chilblains — a seasonal occurrence ( and one which Dally cites , along with other circulatory disorders , as common among anorexics and perhaps indicative of a certain proneness ) . |
| 8 | That 's UK , except when I get water up my nose . |
| 9 | Except when I get home . |
| 10 | Every time he looked at her , she came alive inside — except when he got that look , and then a little something died . |
| 11 | Except when he gets cross with us sometimes . |
| 12 | Except when you get there and they stop it . |
| 13 | I realize now that I should have fired him right then but I thought at the time that when we got him on the set he would be OK . |
| 14 | But while we were there they had several meetings because of course we were going to be demobbed anyway , and the Colonel er of the regiment he had us together and so did the officers , and warned us that when we got back to civilian life we must er beware of these agitators who tried to er create suspicion amongst the troops who were coming back , and telling them that they ought to join er these revolutionary parties . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As I say the main idea is that when we get the answers to these er you you know regardless of what you 're actually telling me you know whether you them right or not . |
| 17 | You 'll see that when we get ashore . |
| 18 | Maybe we think that when we get to heaven , Paul and the other pioneers of the New Testament will have positions of greater honour than the members of St Leonard 's in 1992 . |
| 19 | They 'd start er you know one man gen mentioned er that when we get married in church erm we are making sacred vows you know we start with God but then we get busy with our living and our jobs and having our families and then somehow we forget about God and we we try to go on without him . |
| 20 | At the moment its all to deliberate … defences know that when we get the ball centre midfield we will play it out wide and try and get a cross in from there . |
| 21 | It is only natural that when we get back to power this cynical measure from the Lord Chancellor will be abolished . |
| 22 | so that we got , cos say you have a lot of holidays , so that when we get there as I say we ai n't got ta go out and shop and get stuff , we 've got bacon and egg |
| 23 | As you go backwards in time , to say the first minute of the universe 's life , the density is not absurdly high , it 's only a little more than that of water , but the density of radiation is much , much higher — it 's a million times higher — and the temperature is like the inside of a nuclear reactor , so one of the interesting things is that when we get back to just a minute , say , after the apparent beginning of the expansion , we 're not yet dealing with any bizarre physics , we 're dealing with conditions that we know and understand on earth . |
| 24 | So that when we get to the mock interview stage , no , no one can actually back out , no one can pretend that they were just sent by their council . |
| 25 | Given these conditions of campaigning it is not surprising that when they get to Washington legislators are even more inclined towards individualistic behaviour than before , and even less responsive to the appeals of party leaders and presidents . |
| 26 | The least attractive side for paid golfers must be the continual travel , the airports , the courtesy car that fails to show , the lost baggage , and the certainty that when they get there , they 'll see exactly the same faces , talking the same shop , week after week . |
| 27 | And meanwhile we 'll keep going you know and er and do what we have to do which is to make sure that when they get dow when they get round to that table sitting down that well certainly the the quarry men are not gon na be hungry if if you know what I mean I mean they they gon na sit there with full bellies in a sense that they 're not gon na be starved back and I mean th that sounds rather dramatic and a cliched but I mean when you 're living on the bread line and expecting money from week to week I mean that 's what it 's all about is n't it you know and and the food parcel . |
| 28 | My Lords whilst thanking the Noble Baroness the Minister for that reply , would she not agree that when they get into hospital the accident case or the emerg emergency case , they 've probably been sent there by a doctor and that there they should th therefore be handled , but what the associations are concerned about , particularly the Royal College of Nursing , the B M A and Unison is that emergency and accident cases are put in corridors on trolleys and this ought not to be th a situation which can be tolerated . |
| 29 | Although , many appear in good spirits at the moment , most know that when they get home the grim reality of unemployment and the bitterness felt at being one of the unfortunates will set in . |
| 30 | So that when they get to university , it 's not the first time away from home , it 's not the first time they 've got their money and so on . |