Example sentences of "so when [pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 They are made of basaltic glass , so when they come to rest , they glisten blackly on the ground .
2 It is especially so when we try to impose our twentieth-century interpretation upon a word which once conveyed a subtly , or dramatically , different meaning in the past .
3 So when we came to record it , if there was a technical breakdown , we would rush to the corner of the set , grab the script and discover where we were . ’
4 So when we came to make the recording in Vienna I asked Strauss through a mutual friend we had at that time if I could use a fuller body of strings in the climaxes .
5 ‘ My nickname was ‘ Rabbit ’ because of my prominent front teeth — so when we decided to get married , I instantly thought of dressing up as the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland .
6 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 .
7 So when you got to see the Designer 's scale model of the studio sets you knew that if you wanted to put an actor in one spot , in mid-shot , camera one would have to be precisely in such-and-such position with one lens , camera two would have to be precisely in another position with another lens , and so on .
8 Okay , so when you come to look at these videos , okay , slightly exaggerated but if you go down to court , and you might like to go down to the hall or somewhere locally , you 'll actually find that there are advocates who do what did deliberately wrong and what did deliberately wrong .
9 So when you came to blast the the centre out , was there like a special warning to everybody
10 So when you run to get it started off , you have all your uranium fuel rods in the reactor and you 're control rods and it 's it 's shut down at that stage okay , then you gradually start withdrawing the control rods , and see what 's happening .
11 You 're not often disorganised so when you have to backtrack or retrace your steps to do or get something you 've forgotten you wo n't be best pleased .
12 So when I offered to marry your sister , I said , ‘ And bring the poor little child to live with us .
13 And what we used to do to begin with the canal used to dip in the middle , you know there was bike wheels and dead cats and everything in it , and it used to dip and , and there was a sludge and , and the barges used to go up and down with a horse pulling them , and in the middle there was a , so you could n't bottom it in the middle , so when I learnt to swim I used to dive off this ledge and go under the water so far and I , I could reach the bottom when I got to the other side .
14 I 've worked with children in various settings , mainly in secondary school , and in recent years I 've worked with students , so when I try to make that sort of categorization I find it very difficult .
15 So when I went to shut that gate after that
16 I do n't think so when I went to let him in he 'd pulled himself up round the patio and looked as though he expected to be walloped for being silly he 's taken us this morning .
17 So when I have to weigh up whether I can afford to trade in my battered old VW and think of those who have a BMW or Mercedes , then you begin to wonder at the sense of it all .
18 So when he went to take his bath , she hired a fresh chaise , had her luggage transferred to it , and left at once for Dublin .
19 He wrote out all the lyrics phonetically , so when he had to sing an Italian word , it was written down exactly as it should be pronounced .
20 So when he claims to have had glimpses of absolute Truth , it may be reasonable to assume , not that he has caught a glimpse of some kind of hypostasized Ultimate or extra-mundane entity , but rather that through his participation in a particular form of life he is made aware of the need to live and act in accordance with certain religious and ethical criteria and is informed by the spirit of what might be called dharma ( law ) , or ta ( moral law ) , or tao ( way ) but which he prefers to call Truth ( Satya ) or God .
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