Example sentences of "and erm and [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Yeah , downstairs , Clara and erm and one just carried on going straight and I got seventeen things that I can eat
2 Yes I well remember er I use when I was staying down at Trimley there was erm a lady there who worked in the Billeting Department , who ca who herself was evacuated from London and er , I used to catch the same bus with her but she never would speak to me , erm and erm one morning er she lived down at Curton and one morning they had some erm er German planes over Curton and they were doing some machine gunning and that sort of thing and erm and we met at the bus stop and she was full of it and erm that sort of broke the ice it was
3 We first of all we used to give the food parcel every fortnight because it was half one week and half the next and now it 's a food parcel every week so they they 're guaranteed that basic sustenance you know and erm and we 'll keep up the up th up the fund raising and the money 's certainly still pouring in .
4 Actually , me and Joe were saying the other day , like ever erm who was it , someone said something about people being fat or whatever and someone 's gone , oh yeah , like Helena , you know jokingly and erm and me and Joe both turned round and said yeah but she 's not fat though is she , she 's like more you 're more wide are n't you ?
5 and erm and they , and they
6 And things like Time Out and so on , and City Limits , tried on the listings in the culture front seem to be seduced by , on the one hand , the need to simply provide information in terms of the listings , or then they felt some kind of twinge of conscience and had to be counter-balanced by radical politics on the other side , which produced a completely split , a paper that you could tear in half and read it as two sort of separate things , and erm and they always erm and something like that always felt
7 The mate used to get erm on the dredger the tug and the two dumb hoppers , or the dumb hoppers they used to get four pound five shillings a week and erm and my father got five pound twelve and six and then it went so long we were given near the end of the dredger and er in the Harbourmaster 's wisdom he cut us all down five shillings a week , so we get three pound fifteen shillings .
8 Well he used to remind of when he went in for tea and erm and you 'd be lucky !
9 Then the , the Assistant Secretary for Education was erm a very interesting chap erm he was a Mr A O D and erm he was , he had erm an elementary school background , he had n't a degree or any qualification but he 'd been in so long that er he 'd worked his way up to erm , s erm to Assistant Secretary for Education and he was a jolly chap and erm and he produced a , a dictionary of erm , of the Suffolk dialect which has became quite erm , quite a classic work really
10 And erm and he did this sermon so the next bloke he came from Kent somewhere er he was a miner or a miner 's delegate and he could really speak you know , arms waving and all that and he was a real preacher .
11 Anyway I went to see Foxy at lunchtime and erm and he said that erm er and I mentioned it to him and I said you know do n't go up to Sal and say Jess is feeling like erm you know , feeling that he 's , feeling really jealous because er if , if Sal is trying to get back that will just like please him , you know , if he is trying , if that 's the whole aim of the whole , you know , the operation then , then he 'll just feel pleased and it will also embarrass Jessica and she does n't want and if , and if it 's not , if it was nothing , you know , she 'll feel embarrassed so please do n't say anything and he said no no I 'll just make some subtle , subtle comment and he went up to , he told me that he went up to Sal and he goes erm and he says how 's everything going with Jessica and Sal goes yeah it 's good and , and he go erm cos er Phil erm cos Foxy goes oh cos it 's , it 's going really well with me and Catriona , it 's going really well I 'm really enjoying it , what about you , you know , and Sal goes yeah , it 's really good and Foxy goes erm you know is it , is it a long term thing then , you looking for a long term thing do you think and Sal goes yeah , what about you and Foxy goes yeah yeah definitely yeah , you know , cos he was doing it subtly so I came back and I said to Jess you know really , an and Foxy said there was nothing strange about , it was no f you know it was definitely to fe s f erm Sal was er you know being truthful , there was not like erm yeah well yeah you know and trying to get off the subject , it was n't it was completely , yeah , it 's brilliant , going really well , really enjoying it and it 's gon na be long term sort of thing .
12 And then as we approached the tube station the arm around me again and erm and he
13 Right , and erm and he goes to us , can I give you a kiss ?
14 And erm and I think something that er holding a community together .
15 well yes , yes I wondered whether I 'd got it right you know , it sounded just a silly thing to ask and erm and I erm had to consider that probably asked whether I had erm made a mistake in my shorthand before , before I actually typed it but erm , anyway they seemed erm reasonably satisfied and everybody was very kindly and erm considerate and
16 week 's er wages and erm and I 'd deservedly so , it was my own damn fault .
17 Still , her children are quite young and erm and I , I think she 's sorry for what she 's done .
18 Er and erm and I just wonder whether you 'll get that much more .
19 And erm and I made the point that I tipped all your lot out of I said what and I had n't let them go in the classroom and I said it 's a new thing but I said they got their coats on they 're too macho to wear them that 's their problem , you know !
20 and erm and I asked Margaret , they had a better view where she was
21 and I 'm seeing the surgeon today and erm and I met somebody the other day who 'd had it done and his fingers were n't affected , you know , so I mean it 's just the luck of the draw I think .
22 A and erm and I think it is being conducted by the government which has just left China
23 and erm and I said to Andy
24 Pete has never touched my hair in my life and there was some downstairs in that bathroom downstairs and I thought hey that looks a bit of fun , I 'll have a go at that and erm and I was outside and I took my hair down , I 'd just washed it and I said oh look , you know , I used this hair thickening shampoo do you think it looks thicker , as a joke , and he goes yeah it does actually , yeah it really does .
25 er because I said I , I only phone Marion once a month and phone mum probably about once a fortnight , I do n't like to leave it any longer and erm and I said I know I made a few extra calls over Christmas , but I said I really do n't know .
26 And erm and I think these are the two things we are talking about , the typo visual is the dress and the typo , what is it , logic , typo lecture is the grammar .
27 Erm I , I ca n't say that we sold a lot of them I , I , and I have n't seen a lot about at all , er it 's a very good idea I mean two , there 's mainly two different types , one that was held up by pins which was , was quite good er and erm and there was another one which was held up by erm a pin which ran , which the flex ran through , a stud rather than a , a pin and er two little black legs on it , was very good .
28 They put me by a table er near the wall but it for a table for two and then another lady came by herself , I remember her name was Miss and erm and she said , have you been here before ?
29 And Lorraine looked you know and erm and she said how much are you short ?
30 Yeah she was mugged er ooh about six months ago and erm and she said she saw a chap walking around a fortnight ago with a gun in his bloody hand .
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