Example sentences of "but when [pron] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sudbury had the advantage of the wind in the first half , but when they did press forward failed to unsettled Cornard 's well-knitted defensive combination . |
| 2 | The crowd was a bit quiet but when everyone did sing it was awesome ! ! |
| 3 | Leeds battled fiercely with Whelan playing well up front , holding the ball and putting decent balls in the box a lot ( he came on for Rocky at half time ) but when we did get back in it it was Deano who was in the box and looking like scoring who got hauled down and the ref points to the spot . |
| 4 | But when it did belong to her , she would be old too , like Aunt Alicia . |
| 5 | The final shattering of the delusion did not take place until the 1940s ; but when it did occur , it prompted not the abandonment of the system of the delusion itself but a further and almost incredible elaboration of it . |
| 6 | But when I did find out I was profoundly relieved to know that all these troubling fantasies which had been playing twice nightly in my head were , in fact , shared by others . |
| 7 | But when he did appear a suffocating shame kept her rooted to the spot . |
| 8 | But when he did speak at last , his words were a chilling disappointment . |
| 9 | Erm he started his life er in Vietnam in the violence of Vietnam , and had therefore a lot of violence in his early life , which I think really stayed with him , but when he did join the Army , he was very proud to be doing so , and very proud to be wanting to be part of Britain and serving Britain in whatever way he could . |
| 10 | But when he did say yes I 'll have that one and so on and that |
| 11 | My father did n't know that because he was hardly ever around but when he did put in an appearance , the aunt behaved differently . ’ |
| 12 | She had difficulty finding her house key in her pocket , but when she did manage to open the door , she ran into the house and up the stairs screaming wildly for her own mother . |
| 13 | But when she did find the street , it seemed curiously familiar . |
| 14 | But when she did come back , with her own children , the railway line had been closed . |
| 15 | She owed me £1500 but when she did have money , I did n't see any of it . |