Example sentences of "er and they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er and they ought to have a little shelter over it to stop your saddle getting wet if it rains . |
| 2 | And most countries with nuclear power programmes are , are pa er er are , subscribe to the International Atomic Energy Agency which sets international standards er and they have inspectors who , who er check these standards are being observed . |
| 3 | Er they 're the sort of things that if you were if you were digging on a site you 'd find these every day , you 'd find an awful lots of them , er and they 're really what the people of the time think of as rubbish . |
| 4 | And er and they the the afternoon shift used to come on and I used to have to carry all these checks across then , the yard and take 'em and hang 'em up in the in the check-weigh on the pit top where they weighed the wagons of coals . |
| 5 | And er and of course that was interval and then er and they used to come and sit down and they used to show you another film . |
| 6 | Er and they seem to stay well clear of us when they see us walking round . |
| 7 | Yeah er and they made you wait wait an hour , duck . |
| 8 | And er they drew their truncheons , that I 'd never seen before , policemen with truncheons , er and they started to run and everybody else started to run , and I forgot there was a puppy dog , this puppy dog it it chased it chased towards the er p policemen , and started er barking and d and carrying on , and one of the policemen did no more than thump it straight across the top of the head with a with a truncheon , and er and that was the end of the puppy . |
| 9 | And er it was quite er it was quite something you see to see these er thousands of er of er and they were well-disciplined , er in demonstration , with banners , with their elected leaders at the front , march into er march into er er Hyde Park , er they had bands playing , they had er er perhaps er fifteen or sixteen platforms , you know from which the er various working class leaders er er spoke , to I do n't know how many people , wh who er who who would be in H Hyde Park on on on on er on this particular day . |
| 10 | Er it ought not to have done in so far that er we were we were we were we were moving , we were going forward to take up positions on er on the river , er and this was being done on the understanding that er a certain bridge had been destroyed , er and it had n't been destroyed er and they were and they were they were already across you see . |
| 11 | Er and they did indeed , they picked er they picked on him . |
| 12 | A survey it 's a at the college you know , and er and they did er carnations and I 've done , the chrysanths about growing them . |
| 13 | Er er and they 've just disappeared . |
| 14 | Er and they 're very sensitive to that and they pick it up and make the most of it . |
| 15 | Er and they were actually bringing on there own unemployment . |
| 16 | Er and they were the kind of people that sometimes found theirself in difficulties , at the end of this quarter , as it 's called , because Well it was n't everybody that could pay it . |
| 17 | Er and they developed these skills , as I said earlier , basically for their husbands for use in inclement weather and gradually as they obviously got to m make more and more they got these to trade . |
| 18 | Er and they were what we would call medium to heavy type of er engineering . |
| 19 | For instance we had no place to keep our er records , we had er minute books er we used to receive minutes from the management for example , after our monthly meeting with them , er and they were more or less dictated by the er personnel department , who were present at the meeting . |
| 20 | Er and they used to do the same to ours . |
| 21 | You know , er er and they 'd tell people and , and there was no , never much debating as such . |
| 22 | But this day I was n't there anyway and er they went into this shop in the , er and they came out , or one of them took a , a fruit cake . |
| 23 | Er and they did , they influenced , they influenced er me a lot , a lot really and I suppose they did my brother as well . |
| 24 | Er and they did a lot of sewing for bazaars at church and that sort of thing . |
| 25 | Er and they 're both married now so er they 're , they 're quite off hand . |
| 26 | Janet posted a letter for me last week to a friend who I worked with at Ipswich , she was one of the girls behind the counter and at the moment they , her and her husband , he , he , he , he was on the , he finished up but he started as a lad in the kitchen but he finished up as a chef on the dining cars and they married and er and they 've got er two children erm they 're married to and , and we kept , we 've kept in touch with each other for sixty years |
| 27 | Er and she said I 'll ring you ag I said oh dear someone now coming to the door , she said , never mind I 'll ring you on Saturday , so I said alright and er and she lives at Wyndham , Norfolk , my husband 's niece and erm , you see , and then there 's the other one and she said , auntie you 're always so cheerful , I said , well I try to be cheerful because like everybody else I get a little depressed sometimes because , you see , I have no sisters and brothers , I have three elderly cousins who live away and who I , who I see , one was here a fortnight ago er er er my cousin and his wife er , you see , it will be on a Wednesday , a fortnight today , no Thursday , yes , you see , a fortnight ago and they said , we 'll come again an we 've always bought you a bunch of daffodils so we shall come again when the daffodils are and er and they bring me over bits and pieces because er she was a cook and they bring me something nice to eat |
| 28 | Er and they used to sit in that . |
| 29 | And they used to go and er th odd ones er and they used to go to the houses in the street , there were a chap er down th er that street opposite the er er the every morning . |
| 30 | It 's what the job 's all about er and they are professionals and this is the work they 're trained for . |