Example sentences of "[conj] [unc] [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | You were taken on as a boy and er you got a boy 's wages but you were expected to do as much work as a man . |
| 32 | Er , you then had got another ticket , and er train ticket , and you went to the south of France by train , and er you got a bed and a couple of meals there er then you had a bus ride . |
| 33 | Oh yes very much so and we 've been these er lots secretaries and presidents and all miners and that they 've been coming up you know and er you had a chat with them and they put us do n't let this happen , do n't let that happen , and make sure that erm you know people do n't suffer and er oh it 's been quite a vast experience for us yeah . |
| 34 | I remember when he always used to read out during the service before the sermon the previous week 's collection and it used to consist of the collection last Sunday consisted of one pensioning note , twenty ha'penny half crown pieces , forty florins and he 'd go all through the coinage down to the last ha'penny but erm oh I believe he was , he was er very aristocratic , very aristocratic , but er Father , cos he used to come over our house quite a lot when my mother was on the parochial church council , and er he had a curate that was quite leftish and he got himself on the old Board of Guardians and of course he used to sort of er go into the Labour Club and was quite of er father , he said to old Father one night he said erm he 's a funny chap your curate he said well he , he 's the son of a farm labourer he says and I 'm the son of a country squire and that 's the difference . |
| 35 | And er he had a partner , an equal partner who I do n't know if he 'd ever met him , I think he had . |
| 36 | and er he 'd a night 's shelter and a in the stable . |
| 37 | So Mr went up and er he went a way up the hill , places that never a car or anything like that had been before because there were gullies and everything and he could have sank in the middle of a gully or something . |
| 38 | And er she won a point for that , and a point for this so anyway , showed me that , so he said well just stand up a minute Geoff , so I stood up , so he said erm now do n't move ! |
| 39 | Well I went to in oh about twelve months after that or less say , and er she wanted a man there , I went down there and asked could I have a job back you know . |
| 40 | There again , rather than wake them up , and the they do a runner , we get on to the phone , tell the police that there 's a a juvenile or what looks like to be a juvenile , sleeping in in part of the flats but where it 's a a stairwell , an ou outhouse , erm even under the stairs , then they 'll come along and check it out . |
| 41 | And the I had a look at it once , it did look a bit |
| 42 | Albert Hammond that is and er A Free Electric Band it 's Radio Nottingham it 's a quarter to one and er Action Line Action Line time now and er in a film Thelma and Louise that 's starter of the trend for stronger independent women if er you fancy a lift but want something a little less drastic then our Louise from the Action Line team is here today with something to tickle your fancy I 'm scared now I hope you 're not suggesting that er women take to their cars and mow down any unsuspecting male that gets in their way . |
| 43 | And s we get a mixture a large mixture of people coming to our office , because this type of area , we are a building society , er w w we see all manner of people coming in here , and the way in which the , they mix very well . |
| 44 | And ha you got a recording of it there ? |
| 45 | Mutations in the A-helices , which mediate the interaction between adjacent repressors , were at two positions , Thr37 in the dimer-dimer interface and Arg40 which makes a contact with the DNA phosphate backbone . |
| 46 | and erm Wickham Market had erm Machine Centre erm , that was used during the war for erm certain courses er particularly for erm tractor drivers , they used to er have a week 's course , they had to apply to the Education Committee and er we got these applications in and erm they spent a week at Wickham Market , then in they used to stay in lodgings if they came from great distances and erm they would learn about the maintenance of erm of tractors and er , I suppose it 's quite a good thing really because er , it was difficult to get any repairs done in those days |
| 47 | Mm , I , I did n't know because all of a sudden we got into school and Mr Walker said erm , when you 've been in assembly go to Mrs Parry 's room and erm we watching a video . |
| 48 | again for them and erm I got a phone call again from Pauline yesterday and now wants a wine making book and it 's |
| 49 | Er but anyway er an and the address , full address was you see so a about a week I , I , I wrote , you know , to her and told her a bit about myself and er , you know , about , about seeing the programme etcetera and erm I got a letter did I get a letter back ? |
| 50 | And erm I get a letter back , I 'm getting the Attendance Allowance . |
| 51 | adult life was spent in South Africa , and erm I found a couple of years ago two books written by a remarkable while English-speaking South African called Donald Woods , who was a newspaper editor , who befriended and then championed a remarkable young black South African called Steve Beeko , who was killed in police detention . |
| 52 | I have heard erm some choir , the choir sing a little bit cos erm we got a corridor near the music hall and erm they sing up pretty loud so you can hear it . |
| 53 | And and the final thing that that that I ought to say is is that i if i it has a hangover to what 's going to be said later today . |
| 54 | Well I was n't that nervous , but er I had a go and after an hour or so I got quite confident on me own then . |
| 55 | No sisters until mother got married again , and me sister as I call her now , she 's me of course my half sister , Jessie , she was born I 'd be about seventeen cos she did n't get married till after the First World War , remarried me step-father was in the forces and he fought , he actually fought in the Boer War so he was a a soldier in the Boer War and in what we call the Great War , nineteen fourteen to nineteen eighteen , but er I had a misfortune to lose the brother next to me , Frank , which he had what was common in those days tubercular trouble , tubercular tuberculosis affected the bowels , see he died in , on August the fourth nineteen eighteen in the old infirmary that now classed as the Manor Hospital , but that was the old infirmary cos we there was no widow 's pension in those days , our mother was a bridle stitcher and she used to do have an old fashioned clamp , have you ever seen the clamps that are leather , th tha they held them , the leather , she used to stitch bridles at home , we used to help her with waxing the threads have a leather apron and a bit of wax and pull the wax over the thread , and then roll it round till it was strong enough to thread it , we used to make the threads for her to er stitch the bridles . |
| 56 | No , she said , I 've been there yesterday , but er I lost a brooch , and I wish you would be on the look out for it . |
| 57 | But erm we had a sort of a spectrum you know it covered such a wide well area if you like of er of engineering that one would n't have had a chance to have a any contact with in in any other works , you 'd be doing as one certain sphere you know a certain type of work , and there you are you that 's your lot eh ? |
| 58 | It says it finishes at midnight but erm I 've a feeling piss off like like about eleven . |
| 59 | But erm I know a student who was at B H S , near she was saying how she 'd had training for er delivering team briefings . |
| 60 | Erm , I saw a few white hats but erm I tried a couple on , I thought one would have suited me , but it did n't . |