Example sentences of "when they did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their conversation , when they did speak , was brief . |
| 2 | Erm , and when they did complain to somebody , like a company man you know well that 's all the farther it went . |
| 3 | They declared that they would never again go willingly to war without clear political aims ; that when they did go to war for such aims , they would do so with overwhelming force ; and that they would discover , in advance , how they were supposed to get out of a job once they had started it . |
| 4 | When they did arrive in Stettin , they were immediately boarded by port officials , carrying guns and deep suspicions of supernumeraries . |
| 5 | There was still the possibility that when they did meet outside , it would be a beginning , and not the end that neither wished for , but both half-expected . |
| 6 | He was perfectly amiable to her on the few occasions when they did meet ; sometimes she even felt that he liked her . |
| 7 | It took Russell almost three weeks to call Ellen for a date and when they did meet he was 45 minutes late . |
| 8 | When they did meet , Eliot was wearing a black tie but seemed " unusually relaxed during the meal , almost gay at times " . |
| 9 | Phillips agrees and admits that when they did tighten up the protocols according to suggestions from Randi the effects could not be obtained . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | the management were , were clearly trying to identify the , the whole process in regard to the machine shops in particular first of all , so that when they did move into the fitting er departments , they would have all the materials there necessary to , to give our members the , the feeds you know , for , for producing the m er items . |
| 12 | When they did make up the T-shirts — as I backed down and did the separations — they got busted for sedition , which was an obscure act of whenever . |
| 13 | When they did make extensive use of it for coinage , however , the high zinc and low iron content of the coins indicates that they must have used metallic zinc rather than cementation . |
| 14 | When they did bestir themselves on rare occasions , as in 1917 , but more slowly than any other group , they could read plainly Christian meanings into Bolshevik slogans such as ‘ universal peace ’ and ‘ if any would not work , neither should he eat ’ . |
| 15 | When they did use credit , it tended to be HP ( again borne out by the small number of West Indians interviewed for the main survey ) , and they knew a fair amount about their rights in an HP transaction , though they felt that the language of the agreements should be simpler to understand . |
| 16 | But both of them , when they did hit the liquor , hit it hard . |
| 17 | Result of this raid was complete stoppage of production for two months , deliveries when they did recommence being only a fraction of previous supplies , thirty enemy aircraft destroyed in aerial combat and 38 on the ground . |
| 18 | When they did produce statements about the curriculum , about a half used general categories of knowledge , experience and skills ( not related to particular subjects ) , and just over a quarter listed school subjects . |
| 19 | In the case of the sociological positivists , this reluctance applied even when they did become involved in the analysis of the operation of penal institutions — when the ‘ sociology of the prison blossomed in the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 20 | When they did employ this form it was , as at the Pantheon , a dome set upon circular walls which did not present great constructional problems ( 127 , 128 and 129 ) . |
| 21 | The frequency of these extrasystoles , however , when they did occur , on an extrasystole per minute basis was similar both between the oxygen and air groups and between the three monitored periods before , during , and after the gastroscopy ( Fig 2 ) . |
| 22 | Again , the detailed survey cross-tabulations showed that , when they did have comments to make , old people , unskilled manual workers and — particularly , though hardly surprisingly — people without bank accounts were all specially likely to say that bank loans would be difficult to arrange . |
| 23 | When they did converse , she said little and mostly listened ; it had only recently struck Angelica that she knew almost nothing more about Alina now than she had at the end of that first day . |
| 24 | Mr and Mrs Jones would like Olwyn in bed by 8pm but they have never managed to achieve this and have given up trying because , when they did try , Olwyn flew in a violent temper and then ran away . |
| 25 | Of course when they did reappear the predictable line ‘ And on the seventh day he rested ’ was much used . |
| 26 | She was just someone vaguely in the background of his life to whom he was courtesy itself when they did encounter each other . |
| 27 | Even when they did succumb to the lure of tasty white eggs , they did not touch the nearby green eggs , despite the fact that they were perfectly harmless . |
| 28 | In attracting the fashionable trade the industry was gaining friends who were socially and politically powerful and it was also nicely building up box-office takings for , whilst the better sort of customers attended less often than the workers , they paid considerably more when they did come . |
| 29 | When they did run into each other on the borders of their territories , they usually tried to kill each other . |
| 30 | How old were they when they did run away ? |