Example sentences of "er so [pers pn] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well that 's interesting the Kipsigies are er traditional people who live in Kenya and if they have , in other words er men have to pay a certain amount to the erm you know , woman if they 're gon na marry her and what they did was they study the and related it to the , to the girl that was actually getting married and what they found of course was that it fits the predictions of our theory er just as you 'd expect , given that the cultural things you have to allow for like , like for example in that most traditional cultures they like er women to be plump as we 'll see in the , in the actually fat is critical to female fertility and er so they might not have been plump , so what they did was they simply weighed the girls and they compared their , their , their weights with , with the , with the and sure enough strong correlation the fatter the girl , the bigger the . |
| 2 | the properties of non-metals er so we ought to go through er non-metals and make the corresponding set of notes to the the reactions of metals . |
| 3 | Er so we 'll move on to verse twelve thirteen ad fourteen . |
| 4 | Er so we 'll need some help on in the evening on on the bar when also er we want some cakes as well cos we usually serve cakes with the hotpot , so if anybody would like to make a cake I 'd be very grateful for that . |
| 5 | Well erm the mortgage would be paid off and er so we would have the house and erm I guess we would receive the State pension . |
| 6 | And so he said ‘ well , we have three sons , all of whom were going to war , and er so we would have room for three children . |
| 7 | er so we can take , take up her full allowance |
| 8 | So er so we can er we can see where we are as it were |
| 9 | It sounds pretty good and it would be around about May the twenty first twenty second , so it would be after the football season has finished er so we 'd have a tour of Old Trafford , the Manchester United football ground behind the scenes , go to the special museum there , see all of their trophies , do something similar at Anfield the following morning and in the afternoon on the Saturday go to Granada T V studios and er on the Sunday we 'll be going er around Liverpool and their various er little places of nostalgia around the er the Beatles . |
| 10 | er so you might want to , you know , kind of space it out slightly erm |
| 11 | So you know , I mean that 's that 's the er So I 'll see what Kevin comes back to me with first . |
| 12 | But I 've come a long way and er so I 'll go back next er Wednesday to the department and er er if people will bear with me and put up with it er I 'll take it er fairly slowly to start with but I dare say there will come a time when er erm you wo n't notice much difference . |
| 13 | puts the band before us , but er so I 'll go to Thursdays then on , on er |
| 14 | Hello , yeah , Betty 's number , I 'm just having a recording done of me while I 've been in Harlow I 'm having it done now , yeah , er so I ca n't stop alright ? alright , bye , bye . |
| 15 | Er so I might be in touch with you after that . |
| 16 | I do n't think we should hold up this one because of it , er so I would like to see the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the area committee er , so that residents can comment on this . |
| 17 | Er so I would regard this impo this criterion as critical very er it should be given the greatest of weight and erm must be left in . |
| 18 | Now the er th it the resolution does say , where appropriate , and I think that obviously it it 's not inappropriate , it 's not appropriate , to undermine er agreements on the basis of negotiating locally , is what the resolution actually refers to so er so I can see and I would anticipate appropriate would be where it does not undermine er national agreements . |
| 19 | I think we have to say that er I would imagine that plans are well advanced for the nineteen ninety/ninety one/ninety two settlement , er so it may not be immediately that er we will get the benefit of what we said to him . |
| 20 | I mean it , we may find yet , we do n't know we have n't applied , we , cos the reason that we have n't applied cos we did n't know until today exactly who we were going to invite and when we were going to hold it er so it would be ludicrous to apply for time off when you did n't even know the date you were holding it and who you were going to invite . |
| 21 | er so it would n't be any good for us . |
| 22 | It would enable them to really allow the greater selves in themselves to be the people representing their people , their country , er so it would allow them to become statesmen in a sense , you know , it would allow the wise part of them to come forth , and for them to be in harmony with each other . |
| 23 | And er and then er of course I went back to me mother after me grandmother died , I went to me mother and er mind you when I was th young there was a lot of poverty about you know there was er no security pay and no er and you could n't get any money from anywhere or anything like that you know and er so it used to er had to do the best you can . |
| 24 | And er the subject matter of the , the lecture is ‘ Searching the heart of humanity , to find the common bond ’ , which is of course , it 's , it 's just like my film ‘ Eternity ’ , it 's a huge , you know , it creates a huge expectation , but I 'm not afraid to step in front of people now and , and er you know , present myself and say ‘ well let's ask the big question , let's , let's go for it , so er so it should be quite a lot of fun tomorrow . |