Example sentences of "so [adj] when it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Constance could not decide whether or not his diffidence sprang from fear or indifference , and she found it puzzling that someone as confident as Nicky in every other area of his life should be so timid when it came to love . |
| 2 | You need to ask yourself what is so different when it comes to talking to an audience ? |
| 3 | But knowledge develops unevenly ; Dewey 's luck was not so conspicuous when it came to , say , radio engineering , where relatively simple new subjects end up with a classification symbol of twelve digits or more . |
| 4 | How could I have got it so wrong when it mattered so much ? |
| 5 | A hibernator 's metabolism slows down so much when it becomes dormant that time appears to speed by and the winter is over in a trice . |
| 6 | I WAS married four years ago to a girl I loved very much , but I lost her to another man , because I was so incompetent when it came to having sex . |
| 7 | How could a man so intelligent in every other way be so obtuse when it came to ordinary everyday living ? |
| 8 | The X-ray flux is so great when it emerges from the machine 's vacuum that it causes the air to fluoresce and , if focused , it can burn holes in paper rather like a powerful laser beam . |
| 9 | What is so odd , though , is that Lewis was tempted to argue the faith , to analyse and defend it in a manner at once so roughshod and so cerebral when it had come to him by quite other means . |
| 10 | But she is n't so dependable when it comes to housework . |
| 11 | Then , he had been quite amused and content to joke about being nothing more than a flower bearer , but he was not so happy when it became a regular occurrence . |
| 12 | who were so shifty when it happened , |
| 13 | ‘ British orchestras are so conservative when it comes to programming concertos , ’ laments Cho-Liang Lin . |
| 14 | ‘ I was so disappointed when it did n't work out . |