Example sentences of "erm [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I erm I was born in West Norwood , nes , wo West Norwood but where John Major took you to last night on his tour |
| 2 | Erm I was sent a booklet from the D S S asking for various financial details , with the instructions that if I did n't complete the booklet and send it back to them to the D S S , my benefits would stop . |
| 3 | Hello there , erm I was calling in to sort of object to the erm whole presentation of recent events in the , in the Soviet Union . |
| 4 | I then zealous to understand I I er , er , erm sought it Statutes , Volume thirty-three nineteen ninety three edition and studied most carefully pages six hundred and seventy-five to six hundred and seventy-seven and there I found an account of what has happened to Sections two and three and also for the first time light was shed upon Section two A. My Lords , I have from time to time ventured to express some doubt as to whether our legislative procedures were as excellent , as I 'm sure Your Lordships would wish them to be and when I recently suggested in the most mild terms to Her Majesty 's Government that they might consider some form of enquiry into our legislative procedures to see whether as they were as high class as they should be , erm I was given a very negative reply the clear influence of which was that the our legislative procedures could not possibly be improved and My Lords I do really think with respect that that is a proposition which is open to doubt . |
| 5 | Erm I was looking through some of the books for some of the startling figures and things that happen in world trade . |
| 6 | erm I was reading about carrots , so I did n't get to finish it cos we only had two weeks . |
| 7 | Yeah , well I was erm I was trying to get get a night down there deejaying as well . |
| 8 | I 'm sure Father Chris would be pleased to hear that and would be very flattered to hear that as well but erm he 's erm I 'm sure he does try to live by those rules because er obviously that 's one of the bases of his life but erm I was thinking more in terms of somebody who stood up for themse stood up for what they believe in in a situation where it was difficult . |
| 9 | Erm I was thinking of phoning John , I do n't know if anyone else knows anyone else who might have tubular bells of the right pitches ? |
| 10 | Er men were coming , young men were coming out of the forces and er they wanted their jobs back and er I began to wonder what was going to happen to me , if , because I was on the temporary staff and erm there was no guarantee that I 'd be able to stay erm , and then of course erm I was thinking of probably getting married and erm er the salary at that stage was n't er , was n't very much to get married on . |
| 11 | Erm I was thinking more of the , this adult Jane erm |
| 12 | Erm when I got married erm I had a , a , a lump sum of money and erm I was thinking about my daughter about putting some money on one side . |
| 13 | You must admit it was erm I was thinking more of erm was it Laurel or was it Hardy ? |
| 14 | Cos I did erm I was thinking we 're going through this fairly quickly are they really taking it in so I s we stopped after I re reached a certain point and I spent the next sort of half an hour or so just asking them questions and some of the things they got right , some they got wrong so I went back over them until we got it right so sort of help to confirm things . |
| 15 | Repeat prescription , oh yeah , my erm and erm I was snivelling a bit , and she says , are you alright ? |
| 16 | So er to get to your question erm I 've sort of not been doing anything erm I was hoping that I would be sort of fully fit round about now and then if I saw something on teletext er that was good I 'd just buzz off for a week or so . |
| 17 | Erm I was gon na say yes . |
| 18 | Were n't , although erm I was told that my father died of that so that er , I should do you mind |
| 19 | That was totally unplanned. erm I was told by a friend that there was erm Pebble Mill were going to organise an Environment Project Competition for Great Britain , and they suggested I sent for a form , which I did , and filled it in , and erm to my astonishment a film crew came down and filmed the pond , and later on I was invited with my husband to Pebble Mill to get this award and it was given me by Virginia Mackenna and Bill Waters , and David Bellamy was there , and erm we had a wonderful time . |
| 20 | amazed I actually did erm what happened erm I was happened to be upstairs and my wife shouted quick quick there 's a zither , so I zoomed down here and the lady was still talking to you and a dialled well consequently I did n't get through for quite some time but I did eventually , erm your lady on the reception said well it 's gone now she said but I will give the lady 's telephone number and I spoke to the lady and told her the position and she says well if it 's not collected by so time I 'll g ring you back and I said well I 've been after one for a long long time she said well I ca n't understand it cos I 've been advertising it . |
| 21 | Last September erm I was accompanied by another manager so in effect there 's two managers running the place . |
| 22 | And of course not long after that erm I was took ill and er I er had to have the doctor and they sent me to hospital . |
| 23 | erm I was driving past it learning to drive , concentrating like mad and the driving instructor er , said to me , and it was only the second what , second , third , fourth lesson , it was early on in the |
| 24 | I , I , I was supposed to have a lift , and erm I was waiting like I say ten to five we knock off half one you see and the guy never turned up , the car was there but |
| 25 | Erm I was taken to h hear A J , the miners leader at the time , he was the best type perhaps , a Welsh Chapel Parson , erm on the recreation ground and on the marketplace , when thousands turned up , |
| 26 | Ok oh okay , erm I was going to say stop at two thirty five . |
| 27 | So I mean erm I was going to say put money on the Grand National , but you ca n't really do that can you ? |
| 28 | Erm I was going to ask you ? |
| 29 | No it was erm I was going to say much more natural in , in those days , I suppose in a way it was more natural . |
| 30 | Erm I was going to pick up on a number of points that have been raised by previous speakers , but erm Mr Grigson and Mr Curtis seem to have er dealt with a few of those , erm just with regard to the the table put in by C P R E , with their figures , I would just agree with Mr Cur er Mr Grigson that there is a very substantial degree of double counting in those figures , there is also a very substantial degree of over provision in the allowance for for conversions , er past conversion rates in Greater York have averaged something like twenty nine dwellings per year , over a fifteen year period your talking about four hundred and thirty five dwellings , which is the figure that both York City Council and ourselves have have made allowance for for conversions , that compares with a figure of a thousand dwellings referred to by the C P R E and I see no foundation for that figure , erm , as I say Mr Curtis already picked up on the point about windfalls rates by Mr Thomas , erm just turning to the difference between the tables er submitted by the County Council and York City Council on the the residue within the er Greater York area , I would accept the figure , the figures put in the tables by Mr er by Mr Curtis , I think that they have picked up the the more recent planning permissions and the completions information , and they also take on board there more recent work on erm development within the city , and I I accept that table . |