Example sentences of "so when [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Handsome , smiling and smartly suited , he was an immediate hit , all the more so when their mother told them that they had been married that morning . |
| 2 | So when her doorbell rang , she went thankfully to the door to let in her expected visitor . |
| 3 | all of them so when her class came up , cos she 'd been with the class right from nursery and when she put into this you know , with the double third year , cos they go upstairs for third and fourth year and they really do classes below she did n't know anything in the class ! |
| 4 | So when her son married and his wife had a baby girl she felt as if she 'd regained the daughter she 'd lost . |
| 5 | She had n't really believed it herself , not all of it anyway ; so when her mother started telling her that what Davy Treffry had said was more or less true , she wanted to put her hands over her ears and not listen ; she did n't want to know about the argument there had been between her father and her Uncle Harry ; she did n't want to hear about how they picked their wives by some silly fishing competition . |
| 6 | So when her car drew up outside the refuge house on Tuesday there was n't a soul around . |
| 7 | So when his teacher later elaborated terms such as ‘ ratio ’ , he understood immediately what they meant — not as mathematical abstractions but as elements of the real world . |
| 8 | So when his interest in the affair peters out and he 'd rather not bump into you at the photocopier on a daily basis , it 's you who 'll be left with a P45 and a broken heart . |
| 9 | So when his band Primal Scream released ‘ Loaded ’ , one of the best winter dance records , everything seemed sweet . |
| 10 | Erm so when you sort of dig the ground up you have to chuck them out the way . |
| 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 | ‘ And so when our conversation was out of sync before — ’ |
| 13 | Legal issues , like other technical problems , can only be properly understood within their broader social context , and this is especially so when our purpose is not only to understand the world , but to change it . ’ |
| 14 | So when our Lord spoke about the Kingdom of Heaven being at hand , he was referring to its being qualitatively present . |
| 15 | So when my cousin rang to ask ‘ which machine ’ , I said I 'd had good results and so on . |
| 16 | So when my parent is handing out the parental investment , I will be selected to want the parent to give the investment to my sibling if the benefit is twice as great as it would be to myself . |
| 17 | So when my parent says to me , give those two units of parental investment that I just gave you , to , to offspring B I do n't want to , because the benefit to offspring B , or rather the genes I share with offspring B , does n't compensate sate me for the , for the sacrifice . |
| 18 | So when my dad had to ski all the way down to the bottom , while I 'm sitting on the side of this bloody slide . |
| 19 | So when my father had to leave in the summer he thought fit to send me here to my lord Isambard , to keep me from under my brother 's feet until Isabel 's safely wed . |
| 20 | So when your neighbour can only manage to bake 32 fairy cakes at the same time you can serve up 50 , and it will gobble up a 31lb turkey with ease . |
| 21 | So when your youngster barks and looks back at you , reassure him with a pat . |
| 22 | Er people did not , in fact , wish to pay taxes in order to allow erm their rulers to play the game of war and the limited sums of money available for these wars was soon expended so when your cash ran out , then you sued for peace you , you engaged in negotiations . |