Example sentences of "erm [adv] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 In the long term there must be improvement as Russia industrializes , but in the short term erm presumably we see the development of , of a , of a sort of Stalinist totalitarianism precisely because the screws are really being turned on people as much work is being got out of them as possible in order to accumulate capital and to build up basic industries and , and , and to divert , I mean not just into heavy industries , but to divert er resources into arms production as well .
2 I mean erm presumably I mean obviously the local authority has its own people
3 And if you live in Faringdon then erm presumably you did n't contribute to the money that was spent by the City Council on the Medley boat station .
4 But erm eventually we moved from there and my father er we moved into a company house in Village .
5 Erm eventually you 've got refusing it but you I imagine you 've got yourself in some difficulty f one further point on this I note you had a section on these minutes .
6 Okay , well I think what we did was erm Right we talked about the list of exclusions , things that we ca n't record because Maureen 's already done them .
7 Erm right somebody said something about dogs and burglar alarms .
8 Okay erm right I mean this It 's a bit of a catch twenty two .
9 But erm certainly erm I , I think that was erm a , a very good response to this because erm obviously we 've got er a g a fair selection here , you 've got erm building society instant and top ten postal , that 's the postal account there , erm TESSA , P E P and unit trusts , and possibly index-linked certificates , and I 'll go back to those but I mean certainly that was a good er a good spread , and I think er you know you should be er thinking , well you know this lady 's going to have some safe growth in the in the future .
10 Erm obviously he 's got his own business , he 's got a shop now , an outfitter 's shop .
11 Erm obviously you 've seen what Ro what Roy has put in and obviously you 'll come to a view on the position .
12 And erm obviously I 've got a lot of contacts in the industry .
13 and erm obviously I mean that , that is only for employed people as well
14 If we 're looking at the question of services coming together to deal with the emergency erm obviously I suppose the army and that will come in on a voluntary basis which but it might be necessary to see where someone could be authority to coordinate the services and bring it whatever is required .
15 Erm basically we 've spent more than we 've erm taken in but that was a deliberate policy agreed on by the committee we 've already mentioned Norman 's flats erm that has been a most worthwhile expenditure and we 've got to look at that as a long-term investment because we 've got flats which are going to last for years and our expenditure which was getting on for fifteen hundred pounds will not have to be repeated .
16 Erm basically we 've just got here your your name
17 All I was told is that you 're getting twelve months guarantee , but you 've got to have a three thousand mile service , and as the gentleman said erm I recorded the deliveries and sent them all back and on the third one , when I took it in I asked if they 'd put a new set of points in for me and erm unfortunately when it came out there was no compression at all and because because I it was suggested that I dug my heels in a bit and got an independent report and erm basically they told me to get lost because it cost fifty pound to do the report .
18 Now what happened was originally that I lost compression on pistons three and four and it worked out there was a very thin channel from piston three to four on the head gasket and erm basically it ruined part of the engine and the whole report said that basically I want a new engine .
19 I , I was n't watching while at the time , but erm basically it seemed like it was six of one and half a dozen of the other .
20 Er with the new contracts that started in September erm basically it seems that some teachers are having to do bits of cleaning themselves to keep their their classroom up to up to scratch up to the standards they ought they ought to be .
21 just so can we get back to research about beginners because I 'm worried about how much there is on the tape and you 're about to drive to Pitlochrie erm basically you have to define a beginner to see what they want to do
22 Anyway it 's fiction erm basically I mean for me there 's two issues , one do you pamper to the worst possible taste erm and two erm is the Sun the face of newspapers to come er
23 You see er what I 'm worried about is that erm basically I wanted to see you first before I even answered it before I phoned them up and say yeah okay or wha what have you .
24 erm basically I think it 's a no entry from Broad Street except to buses and erm other public transport and cycles .
25 Erm so nobody 's excited about it , not many people knew about it .
26 Erm so one suspects that if something of truly national importance really came , that it might any planning control might be overridden in the merits in the urgency of the case .
27 Erm so they get the brochure which has the er crackers and the favours .
28 Erm so we 've maybe got a dozen to do for the service , and I 'll have to look at that and and go from there .
29 Erm so we 've managed to hire everything so all you 've got ta , you 've got ta buy is your moonboots .
30 Erm so we walked in and out of carriages as he sought a pair of seats together and erm squashed down , he had me like penned into the window , like I 've got my bag and my umbrella in between ha , and I 'd already told him I was going out with someone .
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