Example sentences of "[conj] so when [noun] " in BNC.

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1 However Crewe came back into the game a scored after 30 minutes or so when Strach misplaced a pass in the midfield where upon some Crewe player broke away and rolled the ball past Beaney and Hodge ( who only just missed intercepting it ) .
2 So Angela did n't want to get involved — she did n't need the capital , after all — and she said to me she might do it in a year or so when Miss Huntley had calmed down . ’
3 Returning to the All Blacks ' 11-match tour to Australia , the NZRFU has bowed to Australian pressure and loosened the grip on the Bledisloe Cup , for many years the symbol of Trans-Tasman supremacy , but which has only regained popularity in the last decade or so when Australia have been able to break the All Blacks ' hold on the Cup .
4 George knows that sooner or later Lennie will do another ‘ bad thing ’ and so when Lennie accidentally kills Curley 's wife , George is very upset and disappointed , but not shocked .
5 And so when Luke had brought home a copy of the People 's Charter and read it aloud to her she had listened ; considered ; believed .
6 The only powers that control fate are the Gods , and so when Tamburlaine mentions in a conversation which he has with Theridamas that he controls his own fate , this implies that he believes he is a God : ‘ I hold the fates bound fast in iron chains , and with mine hand turn fortune 's wheel about ’ .
7 He had grown up with the impression that women 's motives were suspect , and so when Tom Rooney had given him advice he had found it so easy to believe , because it was what — subconsciously — he expected .
8 And so when Lacuna was screaming instructions to the androids , and the Doctor was almost hopping from foot to foot with anxiety , and the pale young man and the little girl were staring open-mouthed at the screens , Britta omitted to speak .
9 And so when God comes to me and asks me to do something he 's already walked that path before me .
10 And so when Fael-Inis looked at him and said , ‘ It is something that is easily within your capabilities , good Calatin , ’ Calatin was very pleased , and said at once that he 'd do his best .
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