Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] [unc] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second later there was a loud click and buzz which could only be the black box alarm being activated . |
| 2 | Ladies and gentlemen erm about three years ago we finally decided to restore this car that you see behind us and although it was er an impossible task at times we , we carried on regardless and I hope that you 'll agree that everything you see today , plus the fact that seeing everybody out here , I think we , you 'll agree we made the right decision and er we feel that as long as this car is in this position that nobody 'll erm have any doubts who the Three- Ninetieth Group were and er , I think er , I think we 're all proud of this day particularly . |
| 3 | And his brother he was in the er Spanish Civil War , he was an officer , he was a miner , but he left to join the the Spanish Brigade and er he came back and of course but after the General Strike they would n't neither set him nor his brother on the pits you know . |
| 4 | Er I very much hope so er that my Noble Friend will recognise what does seem to be the prevailing view in this House on , on your all quarters and all parties and er and will indicate that on most of the points of controversy , not just the but most of them , the Government is prepared to think again , he may even feel that it might be prudent to defer further consideration of the committee stage of this Bill er after today 's sitting er er for a little time and when discussions could and should take place between those who hold different views and er his own very considerable power conciliation er could be used . |
| 5 | Erm we , we have of course , we 've got a , we have a congress each year , which erm we , each Guild is allowed to send one delegate and so really , we always stress at the top level that erm you know , it 's you that run the Guild you ca n't blame head office , the Nat National Executive , because you 're the ones who send the people to the top , are n't you ? |
| 6 | I 'd got a troublesome cough developed , and now looking back through the years , er it would have been a sort of hay-feverish condition that I I have been a bit bothered with . |
| 7 | No , not as raw data but yo you then go to use it as intelligence , I E |
| 8 | We then got the , the agency for Morris , which was a very popular car and erm we also got the agency for Austins , which er , it came about with father being interested in a hiring car , the Austin Twenty , he thought it was , it was the best that could be got . |
| 9 | Up and down different ones , different loch and er you could see Inveraray Castle in the distance we , er after we married we went to Inveraray Castle , went over it |
| 10 | Erm so erm maybe because of the continuity between some forms of abusive sexual practice and erm what we expect of kids , what we train kids to do anyway um it means that abuse is easier to get away with . |
| 11 | yeah in effect I ca n't give you any choice because I know that the medical practice erm are very much more erm not laid back that 's the wrong term because erm they they have a lot more opportunity for you to succeed . |
| 12 | He 's gone part of the way along the r road by doing what you 've just been describing non-executive directors but erm it could be a weakness if he 's seen as a er erm a business man and cavalier as opposed to somebody who fits in with the style that the city 's always looking for . |
| 13 | I went to the er er fourteens and er I was there quite a while and er I , I got a booklet in with all different nationalities and er it said Welsh , Taffy , you see , Taffy is Welsh , up here , is a Welsh name . |
| 14 | No sisters until mother got married again , and me sister as I call her now , she 's me of course my half sister , Jessie , she was born I 'd be about seventeen cos she did n't get married till after the First World War , remarried me step-father was in the forces and he fought , he actually fought in the Boer War so he was a a soldier in the Boer War and in what we call the Great War , nineteen fourteen to nineteen eighteen , but er I had a misfortune to lose the brother next to me , Frank , which he had what was common in those days tubercular trouble , tubercular tuberculosis affected the bowels , see he died in , on August the fourth nineteen eighteen in the old infirmary that now classed as the Manor Hospital , but that was the old infirmary cos we there was no widow 's pension in those days , our mother was a bridle stitcher and she used to do have an old fashioned clamp , have you ever seen the clamps that are leather , th tha they held them , the leather , she used to stitch bridles at home , we used to help her with waxing the threads have a leather apron and a bit of wax and pull the wax over the thread , and then roll it round till it was strong enough to thread it , we used to make the threads for her to er stitch the bridles . |
| 15 | Yes and er if I might s oh I er do n't know I 've been to bloody shop meself but I ai n't sorry about it , cos I 've done what I 've wanted to do and I 've enjoyed what I 've done and erm the authorities they get 'd me that on er hardship grounds there , as I say , being on er residential premise and er they showed me great respect and er |
| 16 | an old record because erm you 're wanting it . |
| 17 | a proper group and er I do n't know how they can arrange transport , but I think that 's what they 're planning to do . |
| 18 | Erm Well I 'm a trained teacher but er I did n't get much experience in teaching although I had obtained my degree in teaching in nineteen fifty-eight . |
| 19 | Public transport could never meet every one 's needs , but it should be seen as a social service and erm we feel that more passes should be issued to people on buses and trains that are disabled or , or the elderly to encourage them to use it more . |
| 20 | Oh very good , yes , aha , so er Jim 's been very busy with his talks and different things and er we packed in , you know , after Christmas cos we both worked and we thought we 'd have it , you know , and we caught this flu bug and |
| 21 | I I 'm not sure that we 've had a very helpful description of what sustainable means , erm I suspect people use it in different ways and ther there is no er er common usage established of what it means here , there is no dictionary definition . |
| 22 | Er now I I would expect , I do n't know whether it 's worth talking about the general principle that we 're talking about different routes here and as i understand , the purpose today was to talk about the need for relief roads and I would expect at some future date , at a public enquiry when er I 'm defending er the outer blue er the outer northern route , to defend why that was chosen as opposed to an inner northern route and not rely upon the key diagram in the structure plan and the stars that are shown on there . |
| 23 | The way some some people are top brass of British Gas but er it really is astonishing so when you say that we shall all we shall poorer generally so and yet er . |
| 24 | Er there er I think anybody would be that 's really handy with or that and keen on woodwork , there 's quite a lot of old furniture that er they could you know , remake |
| 25 | Erm and she 's had seven youngsters and she 's brought them up and she a , on her own she 's had to bring them up cos he left her for another , another woman and erm she had the seven and she 's worked and fought hard cos she would n't ask for a darn thing and er they 're , they 're great those kids , they are , they 're a credit to her , you know , but it 's taken it out of her , she 's |
| 26 | I am sure that an America would love that but it may not you know , to an English audience because er we might not be sure what they are talking about . |
| 27 | has been taken into account or not and we , w we would probably end up giving you a different answer but erm I mean w we I do n't want to go back to that I , I 'll leave that , I 'll leave that , I 'll |
| 28 | and try and find out what they want and what 's happening to the social services and y you know what they think about er what they 'd , what skills they 'd like you to have and the sort of experience you need and so on . |
| 29 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 30 | Yes and he worked in the High Street and er he what would you say suppose that 's the proper word . |