Example sentences of "[coord] so when [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every hundred metres or so when we met the road zigzagging its six kilometres to the top we turned to the landscape : huge conical mountains with valleys that knit together as neatly as in a child 's drawing . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They stood on their ends in the inward sloping shelves for a fortnight or so when they came in during the spring or early summer . |
| 4 | She said — or rather I did , to her solicitors — that she would consider it again in a year or so when everyone was calmer . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ We can leave in an hour or so when everyone is asleep . |
| 6 | There was the added complication that for the first time there would be a period of five minutes or so when I would have to shut inside my satchel not only my outdoor shoes but my gym shoes as well . |
| 7 | The odd day here and there is not important , but if you could let me know within the next couple of weeks or so when you intend to take a major part of your holiday away — if you know — I do n't myself know erm yet — but if you do know then I can have a look at the overall picture and see that we 're not all dispersed . |
| 8 | ‘ Elsie and Simon had been married for six years or so when she disappeared . |
| 9 | They do this by guarding the female , staying close to her during the ten days or so when she is fertile . |
| 10 | It is far easier to convince readers of the courage and invention of a youth of fifteen or so when he is foiling the enemy with a clever disguise or a neatly gymnastic escape than when he is in grim and bloody action on board an enemy ship — not only easier , but more in keeping with the romantic excitement proper to adventure-story . |
| 11 | Quite simply , I lost the magazine ! — the distribution is so sophisticated these days that there is a period of two weeks or so when our publication is in hands other than ours and all it needs is a breakdown in communications for the system to come to a halt with all parties oblivious to the standstill , which is what happened with the Autumn edition . |
| 12 | Since so many of us had made love to either O or to Boy we felt that by comparing notes we knew a great deal about how they behaved when making love , and so when we saw them reappear so obviously as lovers we were pleased to see that our predictions had been correct . |
| 13 | ‘ Dad Weir used to smoke a pipe , and so when we were in Swansea we went along to one of those hairdresser and tobacconist shops , and there in the window was this great big pipe . |
| 14 | A decision which has never had any legal effect can not be deprived of legal effect , and so when we say that certiorari quashes a decision which the decision-maker had no jurisdiction to make , what we really mean is that the order formally declares that from the moment it was purportedly made ( ‘ ab initio ’ ) the decision had no effect in law . |
| 15 | Then when we come back to stand down , we came back to Tolbertstead well we was in Tolbertstead so the Tolbertstead canteen staff got some hot prepared some hot drinks and so when we come back we was able to have a hot drink and erm it was the duty of er the sergeants to see that the rifles were empty free , no am no , there was n't er there was n't one up the spout , one bullet left in the , in the rifle and er Sergeant , the barber , was checking our rifles anyway he , he was check , check , check , check and er alright he mischecked one and pulled the trigger and there was a bullet through the roof in the , in the he was holding it up or otherwise there 'd have been somebody on the floor but er he , he missed this one bullet through the canteen roof . |
| 16 | I do not mean it in any ideological sense or historical sense or to be provocative but it 's very , it 's with very deep feelings that I speak to you today because you may not understand it but for me , after thirty three years in exile I was able to return to South Africa in nineteen ninety one and one of the first activities to which I was invited was the annual meeting of Cosatu And so when we say comrades in that sense , and thank you as comrades we mean it as comrades in arms . |
| 17 | And so when we came to the negotiation process so to say , it was a stalemate . |
| 18 | ‘ When we had n't seen her at the grave for a while we thought she must have gone away and so when we had any flowers left over we put them on Brian 's grave , ’ said Mary . |
| 19 | One of the accusations used and levelled against er against Christianity against the , the evangelical message , against things like the , the mission of Graham and , and others is that it , it does n't meet the needs the , the material needs of people but if you deal with the persons spiritual needs , if their sins are forgiven , those problems that are causing the material problem , it 's amazing how there are dealt with as well , the best way to sober up a person , the best way to deal with a person who 's an alcoholic , the best way to deal with a person who is a drug addict , the best way to deal with a person who , who commits adultery is not by telling them the wrongs of those things , it 's not by trying to , to , to do , to , to , you know , to , to counsel them it 's presenting the gospel allowing Jesus Christ to come into their lives and to forgive them , that will make the person sober quicker than all the counselling in the world and Paul says I brought you the most important the fundamental thing , that Christ died for our sins Paul again when he 's writing to the Romans in chapter five and verse eight he says but God demonstrates his own love towards us , in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us so God did in Jesus Christ what we could n't do for ourselves , so all of you have sin , so all of my sin , and he came and he died on the cross and as he was dying there was that transmit there , for he was n't dying for his own sin buy he was dying for your sin and for mine , it was all piled on him and so when we except what Christ has done , when we come to that place and yes I believe that you died for me , |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ And so when something like that happens , it makes you think about it all , about the dangers , about all the travelling you do as a musician . |
| 22 | Core electrons are not normally involved in the bonding of the molecule , and so when they are ejected the resulting ions are usually formed in their vibrational ground states . |
| 23 | Some organic chlorine waste products ( dioxins ) are very toxic and difficult to break down and so when they are released into the sea and rivers they tend to build up causing local pollution . |
| 24 | And so when they changed the character to be twenty five in the film which w Mi Mike 's age , it totally changed the piece , totally and completely changed the piece . |
| 25 | ‘ And so when our conversation was out of sync before — ’ |
| 26 | And so when he set off for home the red bitch was with him , loping along by his side . |
| 27 | As is often the case , his boredom was mixed with nostalgia , and so when he set out to create something new , he also had something borrowed in mind . |
| 28 | And so when he talked to Polly now , and when she talked to him the way she did , it depressed him . |
| 29 | All bachelors , stood along the counter , you see , and er they were all good friends and though some of them had , had retired , one had retired and we , well there most of them had retired because er my husband was fifteen years older than me and er yes anyway erm he , he , he retired , let me see , we married er when I was forty four , you see and erm he would then be , well no , yes he 'd be just fifty nine , you see but nevertheless , we had thirty two years very happily married and so when he died , he was ninety one . |
| 30 | Right and when Mr said to everybody right , read out your stories and he did n't know John was so slow and so when he erm asked John to read his out , cos everybody had to read it out John goes when he goes reasons for writing er what is John 's called ? |