Example sentences of "when we got [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we got up to the place , we found it was uninhabited . |
| 2 | Did I tell me when we got up to erm Newcastle we turned on the local news , they 'd had five inches of rain which is a winter 's rain in four days . |
| 3 | but when we got up to the top of the house I needed to go to the toilet . |
| 4 | that August we arrived , mm and er when we got here of course it was just , we went down this lane |
| 5 | We were told not to do this , told not to come here , told to sledge and throw snowballs and make snowmen all we wanted , but not even to come near the loch and the river , in case we fell through the ice ; and yet Andy came here after we 'd sledged for a while on the slope near the farm , walked down here through the woods despite my protests , and then when we got here to the river bank I said well , as long as we only looked , but then Andy just whooped and jumped down onto the boulder-lumped white slope of shore and sprinted out across the pure flat snow towards the far bank . |
| 6 | IBM is very touchy on the issue of morale : last week in New York when we got around to asking Bill Filip what the mood was around the joint , the spin doctors converged and shuffled him off . |
| 7 | When we got out into the open sea beyond the fiord , we began to see more auks , mainly Brüinnich 's guillemots and little auks , and a lot more fulmar flying around . |
| 8 | When we got out of the car , we found the only sound came from the chirping crickets . |
| 9 | We had hung them down the inside of our trousers when we got out of the car . |
| 10 | ‘ But when we got down to signing the papers I saw there was £198 charged for the fittings and £223 VAT on the original sum I had been quoted . |
| 11 | When we got down to the final paragraph , Ms Green says that all this extra work will mean that more staff will be needed , and that she 's asking for money . |
| 12 | I fell in the brown water and fouled my frock , and the men never heeded , of course , but there was the devil to pay when we got home at night . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ When we got there at about 5.13am we were faced with an 100-tonne tanker with acid vapour issuing from the side , ’ said a spokesman for Cheshire Fire Brigade . |
| 14 | The whole morning was a fair to average shambles , even when we got back to Battalion HQ We found the basement at Cadogan Gardens full of fainting civilians — mostly rather pretty girls . ’ |
| 15 | When we got back to the platform the train was not yet in . |
| 16 | Dead Poets Society was quite a surprise film treat when we got back to the Farm , but as we watched , I noticed a certain relationship with the storyline and what we had been talking about . |
| 17 | When we got back to her cottage she put her hand in her bodice and pulled out a string with her key and a whistle attached to it . |
| 18 | When we got back to our door Mrs Jonesy and Mrs Phipps were still loitering , all ears , so Frankie deliberately poured some of the icy water on Mrs Jonesy 's feet . |
| 19 | When we got back to our building everybody else was up and busy cleaning the rooms . |
| 20 | That was our first attempt at a field kitchen We erm when we got back to s be stood down we was told by the er umpires that was stationed there that our headquarters had been wiped out . |
| 21 | Jean-Claude announced himself rested and refreshed when we got back to Paris . |
| 22 | And anyway when we got back to England er we went to Aldershot , and was n't there long . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ We did n't know much about ticks , and when we got back to the BBC , we mentioned them to Michael Andrews , author of The Life that Lives on Man , who informed us that , on BCI , ticks carry Rocky Mountain spotted fever ! |
| 25 | When we got back to the village we found a lot of Germans milling around . |
| 26 | I could see he was troubled by the need to start a new piece of paper when we got back to the surgery . |
| 27 | I slept most of the way home only waking when we got back to Debenham . |
| 28 | Fortunately the connections in both directions were not bad , at least when we wanted to travel , though my wife said rude words about the sprint from bus to train to make our connection when we got back to Ruabon . |
| 29 | and we enjoyed it so much , we went and asked my mother for some more money , we stayed another week and then when we got back to London er Mrs said I think we better go , you know , get away from London in |
| 30 | When we got back into it with an equaliser , our defensive naivity flared again . ’ |