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

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1 There , climbing a tree , you ruined your frock and dropped the letter , which a stranger read and tore so badly that when you did get to the post it was n't fit to send .
2 She reached for her pen and dipped it into the well so fiercely that when she lifted it a blot fell across the page .
3 Kylie enjoyed the performance so much that when a Melbourne football club asked members of the Neighbours cast to sing together at a charity concert , she was at the head of the queue to sign on .
4 ‘ So I 'm blindfolded again , taken to this bus stop an hour or so away and when that bus comes I 'm right on it and no mistake .
5 The train seemed to travel so quickly and when another Inter-City passed by going the other way , seemingly only inches away , I thought that here was Armageddon !
6 Have you ever seen things so clearly as when you were first in love ?
7 It was obvious at this stage that the race was going to develop into the best of the day so far and when Lofthouse moved ahead again with one lap to go , Robert had it all to do .
8 You 'd have known so well that when you turn over a stone all kinds of creepy-crawlies come clambering out .
9 In theory , it takes a few seconds for the machine to recognize a new card , but in practice it worked so fast that when I inserted the Flash RAM card and typed ‘ dir A ’ , the machine responded instantly with a list of the card 's contents .
10 The nature of a painter 's technique is never scrutinised so closely as when a work has just been cleaned , and at the heart of the exhibition will be eight of the fourteen Titians in the Louvre 's own collection that have just been freed of their treacly , dark varnishes and retouchings .
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