Example sentences of "[conj] when it did " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Jill Jones 's album had been on the shelf for so long that when it did come out , it sounded old , ’ she reveals . |
| 2 | Things could n't go on as they were without something happening , and she had intuitively known that when it did her life would be forever changed . |
| 3 | This modified technique , involving the measuring of reaction time to clicks , was used by Holmes and Forster ( 1970 ) who showed that subjects were able to detect the presence of a click more rapidly when it occurred at a major constituent boundary than when it did not . |
| 4 | And when it did , the hoardings stayed wide awake . |
| 5 | He talked of becoming party leader ‘ for life ’ , and when it did not come off , he sacked the Prime Minister , Mr Ion Gheorghe Maurer , after 14 years in the job . |
| 6 | The Committee did not meet again until August 30th , a break of almost three months , and when it did , it was without any reference to the course ; this seems quite remarkable . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Missing , he swung his pony round in pursuit , and when it did n't turn quickly enough , clouted it very hard round the head with his stick . |
| 9 | It was a second or two before it opened and when it did her lips parted silently . |
| 10 | I actually feel , there was a time I used to think it would n't happen to me because if I was in that situation I would do this , I would do the next thing and when it did actually happen to me it took me ages to get over |
| 11 | She stood on the stage four mornings in a row , note-pad prominently displayed against her overall , waiting for his summons , and when it did n't come she watched the smoke from his cigarette curling above the upturned seats and felt she herself was drifting into darkness . |
| 12 | He must have known that it was bound to come out , and when it did his case would appear that much blacker . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But that only happened sometimes and when it did she would take out her account book and force herself to concentrate on its columns till the dangerous exhilaration had gone . |
| 15 | The small , soft sound took a while to register , and when it did she looked up , startled . |
| 16 | Recognition came slowly , but , as she had feared , it came , and when it did so Havvie 's cruel eyes ran up and down her body . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Disorganised French industry was slow to get into gear , and when it did it committed the traditional error — not emulated by the Germans — of having too many models . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It took a moment for the truth to sink in , but when it did Herr Nordern jumped . |
| 21 | Liza Alther 's bestselling novel Kinflicks was rejected at least fifty times before it found a home , but when it did it earned her enough money to enable her to devote herself full-time to writing . |
| 22 | But when it did not come , she turned about and saw the child with her head bowed and the tears running down her cheeks . |
| 23 | Output only declined during part of the period , but when it did the geographical pattern was the same as for employment . |
| 24 | It did n't happen often , but when it did , we tried to put it from our minds — to remember only what we were trying to do for our country . " |
| 25 | But when it did belong to her , she would be old too , like Aunt Alicia . |
| 26 | Since she had been drifting luxuriously into sleep , it took a second for the voice to register , but when it did , it acted like a bucket of ice-cold water flung over her sun-warmed limbs , and she jack-knifed upright , her eyes wide with shock . |