Example sentences of "when it gets to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it gets to the point that to reach your greenhouse you have to run the gauntlet of a thousand bristling spines , it is time to make a major decision . |
| 2 | ‘ It 'll stop when it gets to the Monument . ’ |
| 3 | The point I 'm trying to make is that A&R depts only know a ‘ hit ’ when it gets to No 4 in the national charts . |
| 4 | Claire 's mother , in her late 20s , will contest the case when it gets to court later this year . |
| 5 | So the simplest , and most efficient , way of taxing company profits may be to get rid of corporate taxes altogether and simply tax the money when it gets to the owners . |
| 6 | " So , " I said , " when it gets to the target area it drops the warhead and returns to our warm outstretched arms ? " |
| 7 | When it gets to the last line the beam shoots back to the top . |
| 8 | How about , say , the needle-thin candiru fish , which swims up trails of urine and , when it gets to where it 's going , opens up like an umbrella … [ that 's enough candiru fish — Ed … ] |
| 9 | And you 'll say , well it 's getting closer , as it gets closer and closer to zero it 's getting bigger and bigger and bigger , so when it gets to zero , it 'll be infinite . |
| 10 | But the S Q L code which is sent to it has to be interpreted when it gets to the server machine , and we all know the difference between compiled and interpreted code . |
| 11 | . And look at that , interpret it , think oh well , the distance is increasing only fairly gradually as time goes on , but when it gets to there , the distance is increasing at a constant rate , as time goes on , so we 've got a constant speed . |
| 12 | Space craft goes up and when it gets to a certain height above the earth it just goes round and round and round . |
| 13 | When it gets to ten , the members stay at five when the company gets to ten , the damage is picked up by either reducing members benefits or restricted index linking . |
| 14 | When it gets to the sea , it slows down . |
| 15 | it 's , it 's parted , the , the , the , the metal fang comes along and then when it gets to the end ere it 's split , it 's split |
| 16 | Well why would it need if that , if it does that , when it gets to the radiator |
| 17 | and when it gets to the chasing teddy bears you 've got to run as fast as you can , so you 'd better move out of the way |
| 18 | And do that when it gets to one two four again |
| 19 | and then there 's me , tell me when it gets to eleven and like I had to go and get a shower and put the dinner all out and all before I left at half four . |
| 20 | But what you do as a removal man is you get hold of the cord that you 've pulled away from the side of the frame , put a knot in it , a loose knot , then leave go gently because again if you do n't leave go gently if it 's an old cord when it gets to the reaches the knot it 'll snap and you 'll still lose the weight inside . |
| 21 | The treatment of anaemia is more concerned with the uptake of the co-ential vitamin than what it does when it gets to it 's site of action . |