Example sentences of "so when " in BNC.
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1 | So when the great lady detective drew a hair from her head and stuck it across the lock on the front door of Sir Vivien 's motor car , Constable Quince said nothing . |
2 | So when I go round the garden , I carry two containers : a bucket for compostable weeds , and a plastic bag for those perennials with tough tools that might survive . |
3 | So when you fit them , make sure they can be reached easily . |
4 | So when the police declare ( as they do ) that they are non-political institution , this can only be a partial truth . |
5 | Our lists contained the names of the family ‘ prigs ’ we knew were professional thieves and burglars ; and of whom I was advised on my arrival in the department by an old detective : ‘ you only get one chance a year to nail these bastards if you are lucky , so when you do , its got to be watertight ’ . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | So when S knows that p , it is his knowing that is his disposition , not what he knows . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | So when the cry is heard again just before the curtain falls it comes as a final appeal for help . |
10 | So when you remove a young child 's hand from an electric plug you tap the back of it and accompany this action with a firm NO . |
11 | The game is going to be TV-driven in the future , and rightly so when the worldwide trend is towards seated stadiums with reduced capacities . ’ |
12 | One girl said that she had been unable to breathe , and was only able to do so when she covered her face with a pillow . |
13 | So when the wind blows and the rain descends , as it has this week , you are not only upskirted and damp , but you feel guilty too . |
14 | ‘ So when will interest rates come down again ? |
15 | So when we received persistent telephone calls from our clients asking whether we had heard that all was not well with the horse , we had to take a view . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Some Catholic schools in the area have no contact with the RUC 's Community Relations Branch , others do so when the police are in plain clothes and bring no uniformed neighbourhood police with them , while yet others restrict the lecture topics which the community relations police cam address . |
18 | So when the press was biased towards the political right , television coverage would redress the balance by leaning to the left . |
19 | So when old films were shown with projectors masked for ‘ scope the top of the image , where the most expressive part , the human face , tends to be , was lost . |
20 | We noticed that quite often if people ate the sandwich they left the cake , or vice versa , so when we used to collect the trays from them we would take whatever was left . |
21 | This becomes even more so when deviance is regarded in the light of the pre-Freudian , pre-sexological histories of perversion . |
22 | So when it is argued today that the sexual deviant challenges sexual difference by denaturalizing it through parody , the realization of the early modern transvestite that both the deviant and the difference are effects of culture rather than nature is being revived and sophisticated . |
23 | Haslam found this a rather passive role compared to running a business himself , so when he was asked to become ICI 's personnel director he jumped at the opportunity to tackle a job which appeared to have a higher executive content . |
24 | So when they are sick , especially women 's things , they make the most of it . |
25 | So when her son married and his wife had a baby girl she felt as if she 'd regained the daughter she 'd lost . |
26 | ‘ So when I went for my regular eye check-up I had no idea that anything was wrong . |
27 | It 's got these tight sleeves that look too short and the bottom bit is all bunched up so when she turns it all billows out . |
28 | I got to cross the road — I remember that , so when I get to a gate I go out and have a look round . |
29 | There 's sort of brushes under the car so when it goes round it sweeps and washes the floor at the same time . |
30 | But I 'm lucky , cos there 's this bloke who comes along , so when the lights turn green I just follow along behind him till I get to the other side . |