Example sentences of "when it did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it did dawn on me it was too late . |
| 2 | And when it did arrive , I knew that Kano was still one thousand , seven hundred miles away over mountains and dunes , almost as far from me as Manchester , my home , where , as I turned ruefully north , I wished I had stayed . |
| 3 | It missed mostly ; when it did score a hit there was a screaming ping and no more . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Rivalry , when it did occur , was usually deliberately manufactured when the number of visiting fans was too small to constitute any real opposition . |
| 6 | But when it did belong to her , she would be old too , like Aunt Alicia . |
| 7 | When it did become available , it was possible to repeat some of the earlier investigations with the CED and OALD using the larger sample size that was recommended , and to include the LDOCE as a further choice of dictionary . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When it did get going … there was no stopping it … |
| 10 | When it did work , I was never sure what I 'd done right , and when it did n't , I was never sure what I had done wrong — it was very hit and miss . |
| 11 | ‘ Jill Jones 's album had been on the shelf for so long that when it did come out , it sounded old , ’ she reveals . |
| 12 | Despite George 's vigilance the snow , when it did come , took him unawares . |
| 13 | After all , when it did come it initially avoided these political problems by the simple device of locating the determinants of crime in the individual 's make-up ( and for that reason the early version of positivism has been a firm favourite with rulers and governments ever since ) . |
| 14 | It need not , however , have had the significance it acquired in tenth-century documents when it did come to express claims to a kingship of all Anglo-Saxons . |
| 15 | It was a worry when we did n't get a pension and when it did come , it alleviated things , but we know it could run out in the New Year . |
| 16 | And there were a ninety yard dr drop but er Had it happen it very often of course , but it was rather unnerving when it did happen . |
| 17 | On the question of the figures , we have some doubts of the assessments made which were done prior of course to the actual opening of the southern bypass and therefore what would happen when it did happen . |
| 18 | Yet when IT did happen ( and quite frequently , too ) the moans , groans and wistful looks off-camera owed more to Sharon Stone 's cavortings in Basic Instinct than those described in the novel . |