Example sentences of "i get there " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ran down to meet him , but when I got there I saw that he had narrow eyes and a mean mouth and I did n't like him one bit . |
| 2 | And by the time I got there I was very cold and hungry . |
| 3 | When I got there , I found to no great surprise that very little had survived in any reasonable condition . |
| 4 | I got there at what I thought was a reasonable hour , around midday . |
| 5 | The idea was that I 'd go for a fortnight but when I got there she gave me the bum 's rush so I spent a couple of miserable days in France and then hared it back to England . |
| 6 | But what a surprise when I got there . |
| 7 | I had arranged to meet them at Salima 's house , but when I got there she told me that the other two were at Ruksana 's place . |
| 8 | You know , it 's like I 'm suddenly there , just sort of plonked down in a place and I got to really struggle to remember how I got there . |
| 9 | But when I got there I found I was in with kids who 'd been nicked for stealing or who 'd been on drugs or alcohol or glue , and girls who had been on the streets at 13 . |
| 10 | When I got there , they were gone , the American family bound for home , their fine young man almost surely on his way to the war . |
| 11 | I can remember waiting some minutes before walking through the house , knowing that there must be proof of burglary at the back door , and when I got there in an uncomprehending state , lo and behold the kitchen door was broken right down ! |
| 12 | When I got there I discovered that I had been sent to the schizophrenic ward . |
| 13 | It 's this really creepy area , a dead-end road in a red-light district , and when I got there I discovered I did n't have my key and he was n't in , so I was locked out . |
| 14 | Perhaps he 'd risked time to practise with a few shots before I got there . |
| 15 | He was nominally learning the business , when I got there ; but in reality he never soiled his hands . |
| 16 | When I got there he was pleased to see me ; he seemed to expect us to be able to do something about his leg but of course we could n't . |
| 17 | When I got there they were already out on the beach sizing up the surf . |
| 18 | I jogged , sprinted towards my inanimate friend and when I got there I was so relieved I wanted to cry . |
| 19 | ‘ When I got there Mr Kordell was with Herbert Chapman and we went into a Lyons tea shop , where I signed amateur for Arsenal . |
| 20 | When I got there , the organ was playing the 100th psalm , and , when it was done , Mr Coleridge rose and gave out his text , ‘ And he went up into the mountain to pray , HIMSELF ALONE . |
| 21 | The cards and flowers arrived when I got there . |
| 22 | And when I got there I stayed there , it was the safest place to be . |
| 23 | I was once put on a discipline charge because I had to cycle from here to Lark Lane police station on a very windy day and I got there at eleven |
| 24 | I got there — the message had come up via the landlady . |
| 25 | So when I got there , it 's the swimming coach there and a uniformed inspector and a particular individual who came from Cambridge University ( quite a few of them came into the force at that time — in 1932 ) . |
| 26 | There was a bobby on the beat facing me , waiting for me to come to him , and when I got there , the lads are still sitting there . |
| 27 | When I got there , I ran like mad . |
| 28 | I packed and repacked many times ( before I left and after I got there ) . |
| 29 | I did n't know what it was all about till I got there and one of them said ‘ You may recognise this , ’ and it was all in the style of Camberwick Green . |
| 30 | I polished the latches a bit with my shirtsleeve , then I put the briefcase back exactly as I 'd found it and took my leaf-trembling self along to the dining car , already regretting , before I got there , that I had n't stayed until the Canadian left , knowing that I 'd wasted some of the best and perhaps the only chance I would get of seeing what Filmer had brought with him on the train . |