Example sentences of "er [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I shall let you get on to your lectures or what other pursuits you have and no doubt see you around . |
| 2 | Erm next , er I shall be proposing a resolution to receive the report and accounts and to declare a dividend . |
| 3 | Item eleven one er I have to say that if you want to discuss item eleven two , the Mid Sussex District Local Plan , I will have to er I shall have to er withdraw and ask er Cliff to chair the meeting . |
| 4 | My first , er , but sad duty is simply to say that Sir Kenneth , our President , had hoped to be here , but he 's had er , an operation and er , he is not really quite well enough , so I was asked as a Vice-President , whether I would stand in for him , at the weekend , and er I shall do my best , and erm , I 'm glad to have to opportunity of doing one or two things , but we 'll come to those in due time . |
| 5 | up and running as it were and er I shall be I I know already that some of these figures are inaccurate |
| 6 | So I said well no um er er I shall be by myself . |
| 7 | Can I say finally Chairman , that I will be instigating a er a request er I shall be requesting I should say perhaps to the director of education that erm the three party spokesman on the management committee and all those officers who will be involved in implementing this decision will get together at the earliest and I 'm citing possibly next week so that we can be on our way to plan the next step forward to a concrete implementation of this particular proposal . |
| 8 | And I 'm I 'm I I 'm I 'm delighted er I shall be encouraging them to pay up promptly . |
| 9 | There 's a lot of , there 's a lot to absorb here and er I would n't want to make an immediate reaction . |
| 10 | Er I would n't be as generous with them as our landlord was with us . |
| 11 | Health authority meetings ca n't , they are n't very well publicised erm and in fact , sometimes we have go over and , and get our own agendas and er I would suggest that perhaps would it be possible for them to be much better publicised than they currently are ? |
| 12 | But er I would urge you to try to find your driving licence because |
| 13 | But er I would urge you to try to find your driving licence because |
| 14 | Nevertheless , in case I seem to be just er avoiding the question , er I would have to say that this has been asked for before and we have resisted time and again , that 's the history of the matter , on the grounds that what these parents are really asking for is baptism and it 's our opportunity to er , to speak in these terms er and it 's a gold golden opportunity if they actually come to us . |
| 15 | But er I would n't recommend that too highly . |
| 16 | And , in fact er I would hopeful that you will be feel better . |
| 17 | Yes , we 've covered various subjects er more than once , er so much so that er I would be much obliged if you would er focus on a particular instance that I could then have an opportunity to recall . |
| 18 | I will raise it after consideration of er the Skelton issue er because it does n't concern this in any way , but er I would like those concerned to consider the point . |
| 19 | Er I would certainly find it very difficult to get my remaining written submissions to erm by five o'clock tomorrow . |
| 20 | And sir , both of you , both you sir , Mr and you sir , Mr , er I would like to thank you for the way in the way you have conducted this enquiry . |
| 21 | Er to that end now er I would like to hand you over to progressively to my colleagues . |
| 22 | Well I stayed on as an orderly because they said that I could erm I could marry because er I was n't erm classed as erm tt Er I would n't pass it on to me husband , so I could marry , provided I I prevented having children for er five years , that you had to see the Doctor until The medical Doctor at Nottingham , until he pronounced you clear , you see ? |
| 23 | And then in nineteen forty two the secretary , the very well known for a number of reasons secretary of the Hosiery Workers , his name was , he was the J P and he was er er I would n't say he 's a a pillar of the Tory Party but he were n't far off , you , well he died . |
| 24 | Er I do n't know whether that I do n't know whether that was a factor , er er er looking back er er I would n't know . |
| 25 | Er , of a Friday evening , of a Friday evening , er I would attend er er a national council of labour colleges lecture , a fellow named u u us us used to run this one . |
| 26 | But er I would have thought they would have presented themselves better , had they have been er well a little bit more colour about it . |
| 27 | Well er I would think erm |
| 28 | Er I would think it should have a decent future , myself . |
| 29 | That 's a bit difficult er I would probably think not . |
| 30 | Now , what you 've got to do is to think well if you 've got a mortgage over er I would n't think you 'd consider this if your mortgage was under twenty thousand , it 's not such a big |