Example sentences of "er [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | And as for girls , well er about the only thing they did was skip . |
2 | er as a Euro candidate it would take a colossal amount of time . |
3 | Now things like erm , well one of my old favourites Arran Pilot i if you dig it out when it 's young , then of course it stays as it should , cos it 's a very very waxy potato but , but I can remember growing varieties like Majestic and things like that and I mean they would never fall , they would never fall in the water but they make good chips er of the modern varieties I think I 'd go for er Kondor with a K er which is a very very good potato and does stay as it is i in the ground but one other thing I think also comes into it . |
4 | And at the main counter , er of the total amount you 've spent in the last year , both on your own stamp collection and on gifts to other collectors , which you do n't do , how much have you spent at the main counter ? |
5 | I made a bit of a speech and all that and er like a clever dick I went without me glasses . |
6 | Put it in the er near the far door I 've put it . |
7 | Obviously your wife er with the new arrival she , she wo n't be working as yet |
8 | In other words , I mean I 'm retired and I mean the point is that my erm experience goes back into the er into the dark ages I can almost say because in these days , you probably realise , I mean if anybody buys a video you do n't ask you do n't look for the book of instructions you ask about a five year old kiddy how to programme it ! |
9 | People have been very generous in the parish and the village , obviously they think a lot of their church , but one suggestion that was put forward was if every man , woman and child gave the equivalent of twelve pounds to the fund then it would be raised easily , and I think that it 's quite likely that people will come forward er in a generous way I 'm sure . |
10 | Well we are we like doing the videos because er in the early days we had a lot of problems I suppose with ourselves and with the video people because they had planned ideas for the songs . |
11 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
12 | I , I 'd suggest that it is a good bet , particularly if you think that erm if we do get rising inflation , er in the next year we could be , I mean the projected figures are round about er , by the middle of next year , round about five percent . |
13 | I I did enjoy going to the city centre , but so far er in the few months I 've been in , I 've enjoyed it tremendously yes . |
14 | If er in the anti-traitor movements it was |
15 | the authority if I may refer you to it is the recent report of the British er Columbia Supreme Court erm courtesy of professional negligence er in the updating section it 's a a . |
16 | But with a , it 's just that er if you have er in the wrong place it 'll look a bit untidy with the other things coming up when the bulbs are dying down . |
17 | Now er in the last sentence you 've got five marks to give for spelling and punctuation . |
18 | And er within a few months we 'd got the thing going till they were blowing out , and we were making it hand over fist you see ? |
19 | To collect the takings , er from the vending machine you have to go through the adjacent community room into a small box room at the far end . |
20 | there 's various things you can talk to them about , and all you do is , all you 're looking for is some key words to motivate them , right eh er to a certain extent you want , you want to assume from the start that they do n't have a clue what they 're doing |
21 | And er to a certain extent I do that , for instance people pay a lot of money to go and buy what they call boxes , they 're quite expensive . |
22 | And er on the other hand you can get in your car and you can get down to suddenly find they 've got the the road up or E G as we did coming down to York today there 's driving his his er surface lifter down the road and and er you 're stuck in a traffic jam for a wee while er |
23 | I I 'm very grateful to the minister for his patience but er on the other hand it could be argued that it 's no use having a duty to report fraud unless you also have a duty to detect fraud . |
24 | Er was it ninety five people er over the last year we retained . |
25 | Er at the same time I 'm looking for the chemistry er the feel for those people , er the quality of those people and whether I could work with them and whether they could work with me . |