Example sentences of "it always [verb] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Whatever you belong to it always hurts when you 're kicked out . |
| 2 | Out of the entire proceedings came just one plaintive comment : ‘ Why is it always raining when we are ready to go home ? ’ . |
| 3 | My gear , the gears in my Mum 's car are so dodgy it always cranks when you changes down to thir second if you do n't get it |
| 4 | His heart sank the way it always did when she left him . |
| 5 | I looked up at Granny 's picture and saw the black crepe paper had slipped again — but then it always did when the door was slammed . |
| 6 | The real power in Aquitaine , in the sense of the power to appoint men or collect and transfer money , lay , of course , with Henry — as it always did when he was on the Continent and chose to exercise it . |
| 7 | Intrigued , and a little afraid of the gyrating shadows that loomed like feathery figures on the walls beside them , the boy kept close to the bent figure , curiosity alive in him , and a strange excitement driving him on as it always did when he was with the old man . |
| 8 | It tinkled furiously , as it always did when he became agitated for any reason . |
| 9 | It always happened when her allowance arrived . |
| 10 | Should a metal bar be heated ten times , a hundred times , or how many times before we can conclude that it always expands when heated ? |
| 11 | The first hint that there might be a connection between black holes and thermodynamics came with the mathematical discovery in 1970 that the surface area of the event horizon , the boundary of a black hole , has the property that it always increases when additional matter or radiation falls into the black hole . |