Example sentences of "when it [verb] to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the charge had been framed merely to intimidate , when it failed to do so , the octopus would presumably try something else . |
| 2 | And then we are surprised and upset when it fails to do so . |
| 3 | How is it possible , in a democracy , for a committee of the House of Commons ( the elected representatives of the people ) to find itself prevented from interviewing civil servants when it wishes to do so , or faced with witnesses who refuse to answer questions that are put to them , as was the case when the Commons Select Committee on Defence attempted to investigate the Westland affair in 1986 ? |
| 4 | If wood is physically restrained from shrinking when it wants to do so it will split , because it has almost no tensile strength across the grain . |
| 5 | I have never found anything yet that will stop a squirrel doing precisely what it wants to do when it wants to do it , whatever that is what it wants to do . |