Example sentences of "so [adj] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her name was Gail Danski , a prim-looking chick , but not so prim when you got her into a dark corner , as he had once discovered when taking her home after a school dance . |
| 2 | The sudden stilling of the wind brought with it a silence so total when compared to the continual cacophony of the past hours that the shock of it , for a moment , held Mariana and Trent immobile . |
| 3 | At home my temperature had followed the expected pattern , but here readings were so low when I was resting , even at midday , that I often kept the thermometer in my mouth for fifteen minutes in the hope that it would rise . |
| 4 | Er they would n't have you as a bound apprentice because unfortunately , although the wages were so low when you was being an apprentice , three and six a year , then six and six year , and then er I think , thirteen shilling , the third year . |
| 5 | No one familiar with the performance of domestic industry in most countries outside and some inside the First World would be surprised by this but , even so , one might wonder why the figures for local sourcing are quite so low when local materials and components are available . |
| 6 | The manager , Paul Bennett , explained that they all felt so low when it was discovered that the baby had been murdered . |
| 7 | How could he be so polite when he had been fired by passion only a couple of hours before ? |
| 8 | They wo n't be so grateful when we 're through . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I was so sorry when you had it cut . |
| 11 | I 'm ever so sorry when the erm , master mind finished |
| 12 | However , the complications created by roots are not so acute when the tree is standing on level land . |
| 13 | ‘ It seems so strange when it is all settled , ’ I said . |
| 14 | Well when was there that fortnight and it seemed ever so strange when we car with the driver sitting that side and all the traffic coming by the other way , it seemed mad to me cos of just those few weeks , I did n't get time to get |
| 15 | This is possibly not so unbelievable when you remember their affluence and how loudly money talked , nay shouted , in the 1780s . |
| 16 | It is always so annoying when one has made a particular effort to check a point and something still goes wrong . |
| 17 | It 's so annoying when they just come up to your window whether you want it cleaned or not they just clean it . |
| 18 | Italian cities are so coarse when you lift their skirts . ’ |
| 19 | Henry Farr , the solicitor from Maple Drive , who could be so funny when he chose , had said , in his comic colonel voice , that ‘ Johnny Muslim can be quite a tricky customer ! ’ |
| 20 | Yeah well it sounds ever so funny when you hear it |
| 21 | It was so funny when we recording in Dan , do you remember when we were recording at Aaron 's getting up ? |
| 22 | It was so funny when you stubbed a fag out on his arse . |
| 23 | Erm a lot of people are n't so clear when they 're going straight ahead . |
| 24 | It all seemed so clear when he appeared on the Frost programme two days before the Leader of the Opposition 's visit to Luigi 's restaurant . |
| 25 | One can not be so clear when considering other mosaics which appear to owe much to this manner of arrangement and depiction . |
| 26 | I felt guilty to be so foolish when I was young , but now I 'm enjoying life . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'll never see my brother again , ’ she moaned , hating herself for sounding so foolish when her grief was so vast . |
| 28 | Presumably its ancestors were not so different when they shared the marine habitat with the trilobites . |
| 29 | You need to ask yourself what is so different when it comes to talking to an audience ? |
| 30 | ‘ Well , it was n't so different when we were young , for that matter . |