Example sentences of "er but [conj] i [vb base] " in BNC.

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1 We have a great deal of sympathy er but whereas I do n't think some of the ideas that have been floated tonight for a Cornwall and Gibraltar West seat er or erm any kind of link up between Cornwall and any tail end of a Welsh seat we do n't think is practical and I think he 's got ta solve this problem er within the confines of Cornwall being regarded as part of England if not Anglo Saxon .
2 Well I 'm making arrangements to pay mine er but when I get paid on Friday it were going through , got ta pay him twenty five pounds and then fifteen pounds every fortnight thereafter and it 'll take seven months to pay but that 's all he can get off us .
3 It would er but as I 've already said the bed looked made er totally un-slept in it looked as though it had just been made up from new and un-slept in which is why I took that course of action .
4 Er but as I say if , if we can do it on a personalized basis er personalized geographic basis , it gives it more identity er then what , what you produced certainly i is halfway there to the issues that Steve mentioned earlier on .
5 Er but as I say , I was n't very long at that so er when I came back to the , the motor trade , and bicycle trade , motor trade , cars in these days you get a variety of er all sorts of cars .
6 And I know it 's difficult to get people motivated when they 've been hit down and hit down so often , er but and I do n't think that you could do er any great erm as as we said when we went into the flats , we did n't go in with any big , world shattering ideas of of causing a revolution or you know , of doing er putting on a big project or anything , it was actually to be with the people in their situation and gradually to help improve somehow , if we could .
7 They 'd , they had to because there were , they got , when , after the union was formed you know , they were having the rights er but and I think really the hours they put in and the type of work they deserved it , but erm there was a time you know when the bosses were bossy sort of thing , and er and you adhered to that , because you did n't know anything different until erm the unions started up , but erm I know there were one or two processions you know and peer rights and all this that and the other , but erm on the whole it 's er it 's been an eventful life in , in some ways , very eventful and it 's been interesting .
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