Example sentences of "so when [pron] " in BNC.

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1 so when somebody says to him what sides your heart on and he says right they say no , he says yes it is
2 Handsome , smiling and smartly suited , he was an immediate hit , all the more so when their mother told them that they had been married that morning .
3 Now I also said that the states which make up the United States were , for a brief period , independent entities themselves in the gap between the ending of revolutionary war and the framing of the constitution and so when their representatives assembled in Philadelphia in the summer of seventeen eighty seven , they were mindful of their independence and they were jealous of that independence , they wished to protect it against encroachment , they did n't wish to exchange one form of dominance for another .
4 For Aristotle , forms are in objects and are themselves particular , though they are by their nature potentially universal , becoming actually so when they are apprehended by the intellect .
5 So when they see an apparent egg that is really a stone , the fact of its being a stone ( not that they have found a stone on the beach , say , which happens to look just like an egg ) swamps their judgement ; similarly when they see a white card changing colour — the blueness is salient not the fact that it started white .
6 So when they run out to kick off their tour against Cardiff at the Arms Park this afternoon , around three million souls ( a population not much bigger than that of the Principality ) will be with them in spirit .
7 So when they are sick , especially women 's things , they make the most of it .
8 In such a situation in a foreign country I am never able to speak the language , so when they asked for my passport I just said ‘ Hotel ’ , because Spanish hotels always kept visitors ' passports , at any rate for the first night .
9 And they 're highly educated and articulate people , so when they do n't like what you 've said , God can they insult you beautifully ! ’
10 They have the opportunity to do so when they meet next week , ironically in New Zealand .
11 Immature females interacted with adult females primarily when the latter were lactating ; immature males did so when they were in oestrus .
12 In the case of the couple or family considering the costs and benefits of a future child , the explicit consideration of rates of discount is rather different in that children are perceived to be a positive asset from early on in life but particularly after fifteen years or so when they can work effectively on the farm ( and so replace costly paid labour at times of peak labour demand ) or as a wage labourer .
13 Particularly s this so when they ignore the warnings of their advisors on matters like budget and timescale .
14 Silicone particles have no affinity with themselves so when they form the ingredients of a conditioner , any particles not attracted to the hair are washed away and create no build-up .
15 They are made of basaltic glass , so when they come to rest , they glisten blackly on the ground .
16 Normally they forecast for open water so when they say it 's going to blow Force 3/4 , the wind on the beach tends to be nearer Force 2/3 .
17 Even when our conscious feelings are not in a state of conflict , it is difficult to portray them relatively accurately in words , but it is much more so when they are .
18 So when they come across the first element of mystery which they can not understand , they conclude that Christianity is not rational after all .
19 ‘ I had to spend a month in a cast , ’ he recalls , ‘ so when they set the cast , I had them set it so I could move my arm just enough to play . ’
20 Originally a Norse term for GOBLINS who attacked sleepers , robbing them of their faculties so when they finally awoke they were bereft of speech .
21 So when they laugh , as in fact they do often , they must muffle the sound beneath sobriety , and hope no one notices .
22 They perhaps take a little longer than anticipated , so when they eventually arrive an hour later than expected , the anxiety has been building up , and I am in a steamy temper .
23 Not all my school friends believed I was training an owl , so when they said things like , ‘ What 're you doing tonight then , Jon ? ’
24 The injunctions that are undermining self-esteem can only do so when they are unobserved and unquestioned .
25 So when they did consent I worked fast .
26 Nor should we expect the very few who do not want to teach to continue to do so when they might be more usefully employed in management , audit , service , or research tasks .
27 Their eye-sockets have no bony floor , so when they blink , the eye-balls are drawn down into the skull and make a bulge in the roof of the mouth which squeezes the lump of food to the back of the throat .
28 So when they are doing a piece of work on the senses they would do this worksheet as part of that either as homework in the school library or in the local library , or as part of a classroom exercise with the teacher and the librarian present …
29 " They that go down to the sea in ships and occupy their business in great waters ; these men see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep … so when they cry unto the Lord in their trouble He delivereth them out of this distress .
30 They rotate the hips , all babies are routinely examined at delivery and they 'll find quite a number I would , of babies with slightly clicky hips , the reason for that is because of the hormones that have , er are in the baby 's body to relax all the muscles , those will go away after a few days , so when they 're re-checked at twelve days a number of the clicks they heard originally will no longer be there .
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