Example sentences of "when [pron] did get " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I did get back she had a very strange and dangerous problem which she dumped in my lap , assured me I was the only man she could trust to handle it . |
| 2 | Not in the grocery , I suppose there would be , I mean erm as I say I was never thrilled with the clothing department and when I did get involved with the deals , er I 'm afraid I was a political animal and I would 've have been more interested in the political side . |
| 3 | When I did get to the bike I saw it was virtually in pieces and realised that Darren had been attempting the job himself . |
| 4 | There , climbing a tree , you ruined your frock and dropped the letter , which a stranger read and tore so badly that when you did get to the post it was n't fit to send . |
| 5 | Er when you did get a suit it had to be kept for Sunday , for going to chapel you see , and if you were going to have a new suit it would always be at anniversary time , you did n't get one every anniversary . |
| 6 | When she did get it in at last , she had to be careful not to trap its tail in the lid when she slid it closed . |
| 7 | But she was usually annoyed when she did get home . |
| 8 | She had n't had an early night for ages and when she did get to bed she did n't sleep but just lay there thinking about Karl . |
| 9 | When we did get to play , the stage was a set that Logan had designed for a movie — the court scene in Derek Jarman 's Sebastiane . |
| 10 | When we did get a bath it was really quick — just in and out . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ The service to the frontmen was n't good enough and when we did get the ball to them , we immediately gave it away , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Even when they did get cover in the past , the premiums were punitively high . |
| 14 | And when they did get out , the response from the all-important fleets was lukewarm and enthusiasm from private buyers greatly tempered by the general sales collapse of December and January . |
| 15 | Yet when they did get home their families remarked how much more outgoing they had become . |
| 16 | When they did get good they 'd be one of the biggest bands in the world , the Fish predicted . |
| 17 | When they did get him to speak , after several days , he said , in effect : This is what it would be like if family ties were broken , and how does it feel ? |
| 18 | It is perhaps fortunate from our point of view that we can pin ourselves , in so far as we are talking about an inset , to the actual deposit copy of Ryedale District Council , when they did get the matter right , but no body apart from them , sir , did so . |
| 19 | Then when they did get married they did get married . |
| 20 | Soon , carving etiquette might well be as developed and intricate a ritual as chess and , when it did get that advanced it would probably be in Wimbledon but , for the moment , Henry was faced with the unattractive prospect of involuntary double murder . |
| 21 | When it did get going … there was no stopping it … |
| 22 | When he did get up to go to the room he looked like someone who had lost the train of thought he had set out on and had emptied himself into blankness , aware only that he was still somehow present . |
| 23 | Or at least tell him how to get there , or give him the money to get in when he did get there , or at least lend him a map with a cross marked on it , or give him an address . |
| 24 | The doctor , however , acted in ways he found wholly admirable , and he thought that when he did get out he would apply his methods of handling patients — getting hold of them firmly and putting them into the right positions — to the positioning of his models . |