Example sentences of "when [pron] got [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway .
2 Chip slept in a chair in the kitchen and was always at the door to greet me when I got up in the morning .
3 No , I was , I was , came over all , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , I 'll try and park outside Westgate , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , Kelly get round , yes I can go and oh find Robert erm , yeah I did n't feel right in the morning , but as soon as the day went on as soon as I had this salmon salad , sandwich , and Rob said to me well you sure it was n't that , cos he said sometimes that salmon could make people feel a bit , nothing wrong with that , it 's just a tin of salmon , you know .
4 No , I was , I was , came over all , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , I 'll try and park outside Westgate , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , Kelly get round , yes I can go and oh find Robert erm , yeah I did n't feel right in the morning , but as soon as the day went on as soon as I had this salmon salad , sandwich , and Rob said to me well you sure it was n't that , cos he said sometimes that salmon could make people feel a bit , nothing wrong with that , it 's just a tin of salmon , you know .
5 So when I got up in the morning this bloody landlord was here , full side of beef , oh , I said , I do n't want that bugger going home in that and getting stopped Full side of beef !
6 But I must have felt the need for some support , because I found I 'd grabbed hold of one of my hammers — a geologist is always armed with a hammer — and when I got through to the back of the house he was there already , at the kitchen window . ’
7 When I got out of the shop I felt angry with myself , and a little alarmed .
8 When I got out of the spaceship , I was n't afraid of anybody .
9 When I got out of the ditch I felt very shocked , and unable to believe that he had missed me .
10 When I got out on the street , I would just keep going .
11 When I got out into the corridor I saw that a piece of wire had been strung between two beams on either side of the block and that a sort of ladder was leaning against it .
12 When I got back to the block there it was sitting on the table beside the empty bowls waiting for soup : an extra biscuit each , spread with liver paste , and half a quarter pound slab of chocolate .
13 When I got back to the car , the fern was sitting in the boot in its pot looking exceedingly perky , if a fern can look perky .
14 I was so green I did n't know what was behind it and boasted that I could become Judge 's Baby when I got back to the dressing-room .
15 When I got back to the attic , Jean-Claude was waiting for me at the top of the stairs .
16 When I got back to the attic , I was surprised to find Jean-Claude was not alone .
17 Max and I were delighted with the result , but when I got back to the hotel I was taken violently ill and had to be put to bed .
18 When I got back to the cell the boys were keen to hear everything , but , tactfully , they left me alone to be with my thoughts .
19 But when I got back to the agency this morning , the place had been cleared out . ’
20 When I got back to the beach ten minutes later he was sitting on the baulk .
21 He went on , ‘ When I got back to the room , it was empty .
22 Sir Edmund was out when I got back to the office , so I gave my new name and address to Rosemary and went back to the Temple to collect some kit for my weekend with Joanna .
23 ‘ I went off to get another one and when I got back to the phone she said ‘ have you got it ? ’ and I thought she meant the new biro , so I said yes and she said goodbye and hung up . ’
24 A good War , with all the right ingredients and a more spectacular ending than most ( I even had my father asking me what all the explosions and the fire had been about , when I got back to the house that evening ) , but too long ago .
25 ‘ The meeting went on longer than I expected , and when I got back to the car there was a ticket on it .
26 When I got back to the base and was told he was dead my legs went from under me .
27 When I told our fellers when I got back to the depot would n't believe me !
28 for what we were doing so when I got back to the office I rung and I tempor well provisionally booked this , the smallest of the two which I think will be brill .
29 And when I got back for the last few weeks Mortimer had left … ’
30 When I got back from the war it was all gone destroyed by full employment — not that I 'm regretting that , you understand .
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