Example sentences of "er [pers pn] remember " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I I 'd could n't really swear to anything of that description , but it was it was before the er er old age pensions came out because I remember my Grandmother lived with us and er I remember the first week that she drew her five shillings old age pension . |
| 2 | And er I I was pulled in to take a little part in this play er I remember that . |
| 3 | And er I remember we used to get the gas then , and er that was at a time they were used have an electric lamp we had had one in the stall , you see ? |
| 4 | And er I remember one one chap he were a bit scared , very much so , and oh dear dear dear , he 'd only been within other bloke , a chap A chap from , what was his name now ? |
| 5 | But er we got out eventually , and they managed to get a road through to us , and but er And er I remember another time where a bank came in and they were one man trapped in the far end and there were another man trapped on this end and my brother and me we we dug round to him , we got to him , we got him bared so far and what To his waist , and it was still bitting and we got hold of his belt , right , ready ? |
| 6 | Where that was er But er I remember I er I broke a collar bone while we were down the pit , down there . |
| 7 | And er I remember going to the doctor 's with me Mother and where as we sat in the surgery which was packed , eventually the old doctor come out of the door old . |
| 8 | From the old man , you see he 'd always been an old I L P man and er I remember when Harris put up for parliament in the Rushcliffe division . |
| 9 | Erm my mother , we were a little bit better off than they were and er I remember going to a child with my mother , to see what would be my aunt you see and uncle , and the only time I ever remember seeing my aunt with eleven children was sitting at the corner of a table with a sort of a coarse apron on and just sitting there and I never saw her doing anything . |
| 10 | But the butchers shop was er a very well known shop , and er I remember very well we used to go into there er of course when things were re were really poor , you 'd go into the butchers shop in the middle of the week perhaps about Thursday and erm they used to sell they used to cook their own meats then of course you know , pressed beef and all that sort of thing and I remember this beautiful big white erm well it 'd be a ceramic dish affair on a stand , used to have a big piece of this pressed beef in it , cutting it off , and all the little bits used to fall round the side , well them come Thursday when only got a shilling in your pocket or your parents had got a couple of shillings left , you got to fetch two pennyworth of the bits of the pressed beef that had fallen round the pan , and that was a meal . |
| 11 | And er I remember this Miss very well , she was i , skirt down to her ankles sort of thing , black skirt you know and high collar and sort of tied hair , very dark person but she was a very nice charming lady as I recall now . |
| 12 | I mean er I remember one year we had to we was asked to write an essay or a composition as it was called then , not essay , composition . |
| 13 | Er I remember a debate , they 'd two debates , there was one on the Market Square and there was one at the Cosmo , between the Black Shirts er and of course the Cosmo platform was open to anybody , did n't matter who they were , any shade of opinion . |
| 14 | Er I remember too er there was some attempt made to stop a train , which er which was run er on what was then known as the Great Central Line , that runs through , that runs through Hucknall . |
| 15 | Er I remember one I remember one demonstration , we were able to er we were e employed you see , er we we did n't we did n't participate in the er in a national march , but what we were able to do on one occasion was er to raise enough money for one or two of us , for to er go to London by the train , and er be in Hyde Park when er the er the various contingents from e er from various areas er of London , marched er marched into er marched into Hyde Park . |
| 16 | But er as much as anything , that in itself was er er one of the ai you know one of the er high points that the er I remember of this particular period . |
| 17 | Er I remember it so vividly because it , at our house it was quite er an event because mother and father were so Labour and my brother , who erm he , I do n't know why , he 's not alive today and I ca n't so I , and I 've no idea , I do n't think I ever asked him because I 'd be too young , but I do know that the friction was in the house because he was working for the Conservative and she was the first woman that we ever elected er she , this , this lady did . |
| 18 | So er I remember it half a crown to the pound , but it was more before I remember that |
| 19 | And er I remember they use to bring cocks with them and have cock fights . |
| 20 | Yes er I remember a chap at the depot doing the Spanish Civil War er wh th there was a movement going round collecting food for the , or money for food for the children of Spain . |
| 21 | Which had apparently been a a steam There had been a steam engine turning this er mill crushing mill and er er I remember there was a name in in this engine it was Queen of the Valley . |
| 22 | And he designed some er I remember them being built . |
| 23 | And er I remember one one day , there was nineteen of them . |
| 24 | Now another er I remember after the war , er 's explosives took over the works in in . |
| 25 | I er I remember always do n't buy what you ca n't afford do n't get anything unless you can pay for it . |
| 26 | It just er I remember him saying something to me . |
| 27 | sometimes it may be to do with dress , demeanour , mannerisms , you know , kind of again you know people go for oh I do n't know , I mean there 's a conversation er I remember overhearing erm with some friends in Leicester and they , they go to motorbike rallies a lot and erm er they were describing an incident where they pitched their tent at a rally and some blokes came up and pitched their tent next to them and they were erm two blokes had arrived together on the same enormous immaculate motorbike and they 'd got sort of matching leather outfits erm |
| 28 | I mean that 's a , a thing that er I remember seeing a TV documentary and there was this bloke , I du n no if he was from the Terence Higgins Trust , I do n't think so , but erm er anyway he was going on about this , this very thing that there 's often the homophobic imagination er has this sort of slippage between you know , consenting adult activity and if you 're gay , if you 're homosexual then this probably means that you 're also interested in seducing children , you 're also interested in sado-masochistic activity er you 're also interested in , you know , a whole variety of other , you know , things which |
| 29 | because I , I remem I remember when the if it was the Seventeen er I remember when that was launched in the , in the U K and it was |
| 30 | He was another character er there was er I remember they used to have a lot of socials and things at the church you know , it was very well attended I suppose in those days . |