Example sentences of "[noun] er [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you think that the idea of a adjustability er you say that they were snapped up , do you think that people actually once they get an adjustable light fitting , do you think that they actually adjust it ? |
| 2 | Anyway erm we 've been hearing on this programme recently of course that er people are against hunting against fishing er they say it 's cruel . |
| 3 | and there was no contact at all department er it got really chaotic |
| 4 | Do you know that in the last twelve months er we 've produced or the office has produced , twelve hundred twelve hundred reports to committees at an average cost of six hundred pounds each and that 's just in officer time in writing them , nothing to do with the paper they were printed on , the cost of printing , the cost of distribution , the cost of our time to discuss them and our attendance allowance . |
| 5 | And I 'd written the postcard on boat er they gave us all postcards to send home . |
| 6 | The ego , to use another analogy er I use , is like the President of the United States . |
| 7 | Well regardless of the hyperbole and the rhetoric , in fact it was an American defeat er he had to accept the existence of a communist regime in Cuba and to keep his hands off it . |
| 8 | but there 's an organ is Sussex they want him to look at and erm so he said well send me a photograph er they 've got a photograph of it you see |
| 9 | The local government information unit , the labour party in disguise er I do n't think we need to er waste money on having propaganda coming from them just simply attacking the government , completely wasted . |
| 10 | So I do n't speak really as a committed fox hunt or anti fox hunter er I speak erm , after a consideration of the matter er that that what have at issue here is er , the , the right of the tenant . |
| 11 | Er yes my Lord , er in conjunction with the card er we have a warrant card which is individually issued to er a respective officer with his name , his rank er and also a photograph . |
| 12 | Now , er you 're hope , you 're doing this cycle in aid er you know , to , to buy this bicycle , are you going to be able to raise the whole of that money on this one , one ride ? |
| 13 | We 've got to realise that there 's going to families out and about , and what we 'll do is the aircraft er I have n't seen the scenario on paper , but just off the top of my head , I can tell you that the aircraft will make their approaches to the base as if it were a real target . |
| 14 | Yes exactly and er you 've heard the tape er she sounds very harassed er and we 're concerned for her welfare . |
| 15 | Erm so there are these other forms of energy as well , erm nuclear power er will take its place along those , alongside those I 'm sure in the future er it does have its problems , the main problem is the possibility of er major accidents and many of you will remember the accident at Chernobyl in the , what was then the Soviet Union , it 's now the , now the er Ukraine erm when in nineteen eighty six the , there was a very serious accident and the er roof er blew off and er radioactivity was pumped into the er atmosphere . |
| 16 | Er erm , my older brothers er they took an active part , immediately i in the early twenties . |
| 17 | My brothers er I mean you know this lavender bush and Get in there . |
| 18 | Criminals are n't too bothered about the er problems they cause victims in the commission for their crime , but er as a general rule er they do draw a line somewhere , but I think to er rob a lady who is er presumably grieving over the loss of a relative , at the graveside , has got to be plumbing some new depth of er depravity and er I 'll expect the erm vast majority of the citizens of Banbury will think similarly . |
| 19 | If you needed a non-urgent operation say a hip replacement or something , and you did n't want to go into your own savings er you know then you 've obviously given away part of your assets . |
| 20 | Oh there was a tremendous variety , but then there were all the same in , erm you look at the er the three light fitting er it hangs down from the ceiling and has three branches out from it and it either has three lights hanging down or three hanging upwards , er with four ordinary bulbs in or candle bulbs in and shades , sometimes they have four , erm , there 's still an awful lot of those about and any lighting shop you look in you 'll still see plenty of those er and yet they 've got a tremendous number of disadvantages , one thing , a lot of them got glass shades , if you break one shade three year 's time you might as well throw away the fitting because you ca n't get another one er , and erm it 's a design that does n't , it does n't lend itself to giving a good lighting in a room at all er , it they , they harsh glassware , the edges of the glass during all round the room and that sort of thing |
| 21 | Having examined the various sectors er we 've come to the view that there are three sectors which are least worst in that effect , erm which is the north east sector , south east and the south west . |
| 22 | Er I should say that I 'm only saying this because it 's written in front of me , some churches apparently in York are putting on alternative festivities er I do n't think they 're trying very hard because I have n't heard of any and I certainly do n't move around the place , hear of any . |
| 23 | about a month ago , and there 's words in this dictionary er I said to myself oh fancy letting them , that 's slang you know ? |
| 24 | And of course Mr our salesman er he took it up to that big estate and er Mr had got too old to go up to the shooting on the horse you know . |
| 25 | Erm er I think they 're probably and and they 're putting more effort into getting the unemployed off being unemployed off being unemployed into course are n't they so probably the they may have improved things but anyway the basic erm idea of it was that you borrow money er you borrow erm money to finance a course which is going to get you a job . |
| 26 | This is Kirsty 's mum er she started her off |
| 27 | The afternoon er I like to get up in the morning I like to talk and sing be happy ! |
| 28 | my Lord I can I 'm sitting early tomorrow because a witness is being cross examined by Mr got to go off to so tomorrow he simply could not er , he si simply could not be released but er with your clerk er we 've been able to speak to Mr |
| 29 | But er however things went on and er we , we 've had very bad years some years when the we , stuck too much I think to some of the Morris of course er they had their troubles of course and , and then eventually we , it was funny we were the only two people in the whole of Britain who h ho held the agencies for Austin and Morris together and we were at times we were thinking we must lose one of them . |
| 30 | And of course er they knew that there was gon na be a war whereas we put it out of our mind , we thought , well we 'll be prepared but it 'll never come . |