Example sentences of "when he [vb past] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took about sixteen hours to come , and when he did come ( tall and spindly and ginger haired ) all he said was , ‘ From the Job Centre , are you ? |
| 2 | When he did come into the kitchen , it was to see Annie and the visitor tucking into tea and jam tarts . |
| 3 | We could n't get an address out of him , and when he did come up with one it was wrong , a non-existent road . |
| 4 | I had decided that I had to face up to the fact that John might not come back or he might be gone for a long time and that when he did come back we might not love one another . |
| 5 | The counsellor feared that would be the last she heard from him so she was pleasantly surprised when he did come the following week , bearing a letter from Susie in Denmark . |
| 6 | But then when he did come home much later in the evenings she was often brusque and cross with him . |