Example sentences of "when [pron] [adv] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I eventually did get home , though , I remembered most of those I had forgotten as if I had not been away . |
| 2 | Off he went ; he must have persuaded my mother because when I eventually did get home , she did n't put up any resistance . |
| 3 | When I eventually did contact her things seemed to be going quite well due to supportive family but she felt isolated from other mothers in the same situation as herself . |
| 4 | When someone finally did ask , How are you two ? |
| 5 | Some tyre levers and allan keys were missing but by driving slowly back I ( or rather we , as I 'd offered some fellow tourists a lift back to town ; what with delays getting started , and then this to-do , I bet they wished they 'd never bothered , it would have been quicker to walk ! — and when we finally did set off again , I accidentally left one of them behind , running along the road behind us waving and shouting ! ) — we , as I say , found most of the missing items . |
| 6 | When we finally did make it back to the ground , palpitating and soaked with sweat , there was no sign of Ranteallo , and much of the crowd had already dispersed on its way back to the Rante . |
| 7 | Then suddenly , and sweetly , she began to realise that , since Travis was no more to her than a good friend , and she was still going to have her job at the end of all this , when it finally did end , it was going to be she who had the last laugh — and not N. Massingham Esquire . |
| 8 | When it finally did become self-replicating , this was a device evolved by the mineral crystal ‘ genes ’ to improve the efficiency of manufacture of the RNA ( or similar molecule ) . |
| 9 | When he finally did stop working , it was the first time in a year and a half that everyone involved stopped and got a chance to take a break , and once everyone took a break , things began to change . |
| 10 | When he finally did kiss her , properly kiss her , she was more than ready . |
| 11 | When he eventually did show up , it was obvious to all that he was a changed dog ! |
| 12 | I tell the DI why ; I tell him about two more betrayals ; about the commanding officer who had let men die to cover up his own inadequacy ( or at least Andy believed he had , which was all that mattered ) , and I tell him about the locum doctor who could n't be bothered to attend a patient and then , when he eventually did pay a visit , just assumed her pain was something trivial . |