Example sentences of "er [coord] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've always in the West used the term Russian nationalist as one of abuse , er and that it seems to me as , because it 's always in the past been associated with empire , Russian nationalists in practice have oppressed other people , but after all why should the Russians not be patriotic just as the British as er a citizen or a Frenchman can be patriotic , er provided that that does n't go with oppressing other people . |
| 2 | Er and when it progressed to automatic tools , all these tools were kept in a store at night , and you collected them in the morning when you went back onto the job . |
| 3 | His pal his workmate was retired and a few months after , Arthur died , so it left me the one and the owners of the property , they give me notice to quit and no messing about er and when I talked to them , they give me twelve months , rate free , to erm get out . |
| 4 | What I 'm gon na ask you to do , if you could introduce each of yourselves and say which pension fund you er come from er and if we start from your left , my right . |
| 5 | In a way this standing behind and it 's unfortunate we have to have something as big as this table er and if I stand behind it then you know Gordon 's not getting my full centre line yep . |
| 6 | I mean er and if you go through it goes on and on and on erm and the changes in policy come to be a problem . |
| 7 | No , I do n't get bored at all with it , er because snooker is not er like American pool , where you go out there with a stick and just knock balls all over the table ; snooker is snooker , and the name of snooker is to play this , you know , this game of chess on the green baize , and er that 's what , you see this is where Davis has been so good for so long , a ) he 's a supreme professional , he once apologised for only practising for two hours on Christmas Day rather than four , er and if you look at Davis ' score sheets and his matches , which I 've done over the years , you 'll see a lot of breaks of around sort of fifty five , sixty , sixty five , and then he stops , he plays the safety shot and says to his opponent ‘ okay , your turn ’ , plays the percentage game , the occasional knock in the very big ones , but that 's why he 's won so much , because he thinks it out so well , and knows the averages , knows the percentages and plays the game that way . |
| 8 | cos er and if you say for all enquiries please call that . |
| 9 | When we are talking about directors of businesses , er particularly the larger companies , good people are hard to find and some of them are superstars , and er I know we 've heard a lot about er exceedingly high levels of pay and very high pay increases , er but when you talk about the superstars and megastars , what about the entertainment business , what about sport , what about , you know , golfing celebrities , earning in excess of a million , or racing drivers ? |
| 10 | Er but when you think about of it i i it is , it 's logical . |
| 11 | to my honourable friend because not only are these er large er particularly the big six er centres of accountancy power pretty well uncontrolled , they dominate the institutions that are meant to regulate them er but when it comes to international er affairs they do n't exchange information with each other . |
| 12 | So I think there 's an element still to come out in , in that area , er but if you look at er , er the er issue generally , there 's a lot in the White Paper on er more than I expected actually , on energy efficiency , which I think is one of the keys to getting down er levels of carbon dioxide , and there is discussion about some of the many many ways in which the role of the motor car will affect er how we reduce our C O two . |