Example sentences of "a [noun sg] er " in BNC.

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1 Er but er and , and the they negotiated er a payment er for working in these er cold conditions for the men who were in the machine shop .
2 There , there 's quite a variety er of low alcohol drinks available now , what sort of things will be on offer there ?
3 We th to rehearse a little bit of the debate we had last time on speed cameras , th there was erm discussion about who should fund the camera themselves because being a , the Department of Transport and Home Office recommendation , that they should be funded by the police , but because of Mr 's question at full Council and the wish of this committee to spend some of this additional money if you like , or in ninety three four for safety related measures , it was thought wise to combine the two and actually try and fund a trial er package of speed cameras cos it 's , it 's about six sites and one camera , from the ninety three four budget that we 've actually found .
4 I had a sister er we , we had a sister schizophrenic .
5 If , if er if you were on a case er well if you could get out for a , for an hour in the afternoon for a walk , but that was about all .
6 Just five years later in eighteen twenty four er in a case called Gibbons versus Ogden I forget precisely who Gibbons and Ogden where , erm but this was a case er of a dispute between the states of er New York and New Jersey over navigation rights on the Hudson River er and who had the right to regulate trade on the Hudson River .
7 Yes , there were er , I think there was one , two , three , four houses , four or five houses that were occupied before we came in , they were still building The Chantry incidently and er you know it was a it was quite a shock to us and the wife was a bit upset you know when having to , we came from Plymouth actually , Devon , and er the wife was a bit er down you know all the night travelling all night with the children
8 The thing with this , the thing that puzzles me a bit er
9 Were they er a bit er frightening the doctors then or ?
10 They might have just threw in a bit er more from paper three .
11 Just be a bit er bit , bit er wary of them in the sense that you do n't know who 's managing the fund , er because it 's their money , it 's not your money , they do n't actually invest the money from you , it 's their money they 're investing .
12 Well that created er a great feeling of ambiguity in the minds of our members , erm mainly I think due to the fact that some of our colleagues you know , may have been a bit er apprehensive .
13 So really there 's only that item w w we felt that particular one was a bit er a bit steep and er the rest was er a a difference in emphasis , I would suspect , coupled with shortage of time
14 But erm there were one or two little hiccups of that sort where erm temporary staff were erm regarded as a bit er second rate citizens
15 because if I might say so disabled people were treated oddly in those days , they are not er , erm people I think were a bit er diffident about making contact with them and erm , a lot of people would n't erm , you know , give you a hand if you were
16 Erm right there 's one of the partners there er he 's a bit er I do n't know what he 's doing he 's doing somersaults I think backwards to help the situation but it does n't .
17 Er we are a bit er vexed at the management er they are sitting down to slits er splay s tt split slates .
18 Oh dear , Dougie 's getting a bit , I see Dougie 's getting a bit er , yeah , erm
19 It 's a bit er you know
20 no problem it 's just it 's I think it 's a bit er just a conflict of interests .
21 So there 's a lot of the discussions have taken place and also I would have briefed you a bit er
22 I say one of the medieval kitchens cos the kitchen seems to move about a bit er at different times .
23 You , you know , you , you got over it but er he , he did n't re he did n't come back to you when perhaps he could 've done if he was feeling a bit er aggressive at the time .
24 Cos I 've got a bit er my blood 's a bit thick round the scar so disperse the blood .
25 That 's the one paper that is a bit er maybe a bit so but th I 'll have to check with the N R A because of course er , the river
26 Sorry the egg 's a bit er
27 well say when you look at that picture its just a bit er unusual i n't it ?
28 well its a bit er
29 mm , but there was a bit er , you know where the legs moved ?
30 Well I mean er , a bit er , I 'm a bit concerned now that they 're er er , they 're not covered with the insurance .
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