Example sentences of "when she got [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | But when she got into the car at five , ready for the fifteen-mile drive across London , it would n't start . |
2 | When she got off the train from Chertsey she did n't have enough money to take an omnibus . |
3 | When she got off the bus at her usual stop , even the moderate leafiness of the district contributed to her hopes , and she saw , fleetingly , the features that caused it to be described by others as a desirable residential area . |
4 | When she got over the stroke she fell and broke her hand . |
5 | When she got to the top of the staircase and Mr Browning had gone back inside his apartment , she suddenly felt so ill she had to sit down on the stone step and compose herself before going on . |
6 | The first thing Carlie did when she got to the foster home was pull the plastic footrest up close to the TV : ‘ Do n't talk to me when ‘ Young and Restless ’ is on , ’ she warned the foster mother who was standing behind her . |
7 | Nutty rode on hopefully , but when she got to the gate Mrs Smith was backing out in a large yellow Range Rover and glared at having to give way to a mere equestrian . |
8 | When she got to the hospital , they gave her an appointment to see a gynaecologist in six weeks time . |
9 | At the start she would rehearse arranging them with the nun so that she would do it well when she got to the Hogans , but as the weeks went by she grew in confidence . |
10 | She had recently been knitting double jacquard , but when she got to the very top of a sleeve , she had a little disaster and dropped the lot ! |
11 | She bravely did her best to ignore it when she got to the studio and was quite successful in separating her professional and eventful private life . |
12 | When she got to the terrace there were four faces looking at her . |
13 | When she got to the first landing , her mother 's bedroom door suddenly flew open and her mother burst out . |
14 | If she did not tread on any of the black , perhaps when she got to the end of the floor she would shiver and rouse in her own long-lost bed , in her striped sheets , and say good morning to the apple tree and look at her own face in the mirror she had not broken . |
15 | When she got to the little clearing she halted , seeing Léonie there on her knees , looking up at the outcrop of rock . |
16 | But when she got to the flat she found it ransacked . |
17 | She hurried after him to apologise , but when she got to the salon he was not there . |
18 | When she got to the large graph that shows the state of the church-roof appeal , she stopped and looked down at the waiting crowds as if she was a victorious politician looking down on her compliant voters . |
19 | When she got to the theatre she found her dressing room was full of flowers — Willi again . |
20 | His wife Ina , 64 , said she heard a scuffle going on outside , but when she got to the door the two youths had already fled . |
21 | I mean I do n't know whether she thought she could put them in the garden when she got to the new place and they 'd grow but |