Example sentences of "when we got [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 My lover and I lived together for eight years and then when we got rid of the greengrocer 's shop , he ‘ went back to mother ’ .
2 living with that and then when we got rid of that purple carpet
3 No , no , that would n't worry me , I just , I said when we got rid of our other sideboard let's do without one and then I looked round and thought well what the dickens am I going to do with all this stuff that we 've got and I just found that we could n't do without it .
4 And be about five or six of us left then , and we were just getting ready to get off when we got hit by the second big blast , which caused most of the burns to all of us then .
5 I was really down when we got disqualified at Ascot , but she put it all right in the Eclipse . ’
6 When we got married for instance , I had to give up teaching because there was a regulation which said husbands and wives could n't both teach and of course it was the wives who left . ’
7 Council put the central heating in when we got advanced in years and when it became necessary in the doctor 's opinion for me to have central heating because I had a heart complaint .
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