Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [conj] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ He did n't — ’ Robbie began , then stopped , realising that was exactly what Hugh had done and that obscurely she had begun to resent it , even before their break-up .
2 Erm miraculously , nobody in the village was hardly scratched but as unfortunately your whole crew perished .
3 but it 's not television , i i it 's , it 's Doctor Who and , and Prisoner and , you know er very interesting and very easy for enthusiasts to direct a lot of their time and energy to maybe I do n't maybe there was a increased pressure to work and study which was erm self motivated rather than being externally imposed , maybe he maybe there was a fundamental lack of enthusiasm in him for what is described as the hardware of computing , the , the , the , the , the instruments , the machines maybe there was a less than comprehensive understanding of what is known as the firmware , that 's to say I mean operating systems that are built into the thing to make it work , you 've got to understand the firmware because otherwise you do n't understand what the machine will think you mean and what that will do and I would have thought that whereas superficially you can ignore the firmware , it 's all in there , it understands as you , I would have thought , grew into a er a graduate computer scientist you 've got to have some idea about that .
4 It is often not needed and because sometimes you require both hands free to clamber over slippery rocks , with sharp barnacle-encrusted boulders as the only hand-hold , superfluous equipment is to be avoided .
5 hard copy status ; that is whether a hard copy of the module version has been requested and if so what stage the hard copy process has reached
6 There are some people so damaged that as yet we do n't know how to help them live more creative lives .
7 Well if I 'd have known that before else I 'll go and land on the .
8 My Chief-of-Staff , who had been following the progress of the attack from a more distant position in Consenvoye Wood on the eastern bank , telephoned to me that the attack had failed and that everywhere our men could be seen falling back .
9 In paragraph 8(b) of his affidavit the coroner states that a verdict of natural causes aggravated by lack of care is relevant only if an inquest is held and that here he was concerned with the antecedent question whether an inquest should be held at all .
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