Example sentences of "[conj] [unc] [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I mean as it is I I can get photocopying for four P a sheet getting fifty at a time , and that give I get a receipt for that which is better than three P a sheet without a receipt . |
| 2 | Now the idea is that er they put a couple of monitors and monitor your brainwaves . |
| 3 | It is one of the rules that er we get a grant from the society . |
| 4 | Absolutely right Jimmy James and the Vagabonds er so er you get a prize . |
| 5 | I said , yeah , it 's me , er my sister said that erm she feels a man in Olympus Sports , I said erm , on a poster playing basket ball and he looked like you . |
| 6 | because again as adults we realize that if every we ask a question to the trainer you 're asking questions to him and they keep answering them , what does it mean we can do as trainees ? |
| 7 | Banks , yes you deal with banks and er they know a lot about your affairs because you 've got your bank account and it goes through their hands and the know all about that . |
| 8 | and er they got a board out there and had that sort of three twenty five and things like , that 's very good . |
| 9 | And er they had a surveyor gang checking all the lines in the tunnel that the surveyors put up to keep the men driving the right tunnel it should n't go p one past the other . |
| 10 | And er they did a lot for that fun run and er made money on there erm I think they 've kept the , the image up really . |
| 11 | And er they have a go , er even day and night , and I do n't know anywhere in the country that you can get that sort of service twenty four hours a day , three hundred and sixty five days a year from people who get paid that sort of money , it 's , I think it 's , it 's a marvellous er set-up it really is . |
| 12 | Now orders came from the , and also we had orders for th , e the falling target in the you know , of a , a rifle range where you had to er put up the frames you know with a target on it and er we made a lot of these during the First World War . |
| 13 | My mother used to do the washing for the Americans , and er we had a photographer friend of ours that used to bring the washing-up to the house , which the story is in the book . |
| 14 | And er we had a plan for to build a building with er dressing accommodation and er this was gon na cost seven thousand pound when we could n't face it , we thought that there were far more important things to deal with than that when we had housing , we had just had a housing report which said that two thousand houses in the town were not up to the modern standard . |
| 15 | And it was a great tragedy cos er it did i i it did cause the general strike and er we had a week of the general strike . |
| 16 | These were er in , in its infancy then and er we had a soup kitchen and er we , we got soup once a day , when we got issued with it . |
| 17 | As a matter of fact , that what they were lacking in and we er we had a driller and er we had a driller and er horizontal lather for turning and a grinder , when I say grinder I mean emery wheel , and that 's about all we 'd got in the shop . |
| 18 | I wondered if we could look at particularly customer relations producing some sort of voucher worth fifty pound or hundred pound or twenty five pound and er we have a stock of those printed up you know |
| 19 | And er we did a couple of weeks erm teaching in schools and we helped run a erm a lunching club for old people . |
| 20 | And er our got a beauty for hundred and ninety five ! |
| 21 | The the thing that er sticks out is that at time there was no women organizing the union and er I had a go at organizing the women and I was very successful . |
| 22 | And er I had a touch of a there was a gas shells dropped somewhere quite not far from me . |
| 23 | And er I had a brother in law on the railway there . |
| 24 | And er I had a letter back on the Friday from Stuart to say er according to Mr 's description it was very interesting and could I possibly meet him at Station on the Saturday morning . |
| 25 | the end of the last straw you see , so I went in the Co-Op and I felt really , really fed up , I said I oh I said I could cry I said because I 've tried so hard I said not for lending you money I said , I 'm not meant to have any sodding luck so got a couple of bits and I really could n't get me act together and on the Tuesday dad 's gone in hospital with that fit , so I was thinking of him a lot and I thought I do n't know dad , you know I 'm sure , I 'm sure that he were n't gon na come out when he went in there , I thought they were gon na bloody find something with you boy and that would be it , so I come home here and I ai n't done no work , so I started off for work , both sitting here bloody bawling cos this house looked like shit , spoke to me sister on the phone and er I felt a bit better so I thought oh I 'd start doing the tree , so I pulled it all to bits in here , got the polish and duster out , put all the bread and everything for Alan 's sandwiches , it 'd be about oh , about half past twelve and the bloody phone went it was mum , she said Lyn do you think you can come up to the hospital with me , cos I 've got no transport and so I said what 's up then mum ? |
| 26 | and er I spent a week nearly doing it up . |
| 27 | Now you might think well stags have harem groups and they 've got these enormous antlers and they could bully and er I mean a harem group looks kind of fascist kind of social structure you know when a male dominates female , but in fact field observations of how stags actually deal with their females show that they 're very tender erm towards them and they have to have the cooperation of the female in order to mount . |
| 28 | with a proper petition er and er I have a copy here if er you would like to c circulate it and er sign it . |
| 29 | Er you will all be aware I think that the budget has been running for some months and er I suppose a lot of you either as spokes persons or as members of groups have actually been dealing with the budget issues in some detail . |
| 30 | There 's Echo There 's Echo goes from strength to strength to the extent that one of its competitors , the main competitor , Tribune del Expansione was obliged to merge with Lacoude Francais I mentioned earlier that Ensure was re-launched and er it achieved a circulation of a hundred and five thousand . |