Example sentences of "er i have [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And er I 'd got a key to get in from the works into the office once I was inside , but that was access to the works you know and er I er I en I enjoyed it more or less and I must say the firm , to some extent , looked up to me and I 'd only got to have a damned machine stop , where the girls was working on this machine , and the bobbin shop and all that sort of thing , and I was able to go look er , down and say look here I want this . |
2 | Er I 've said a lot |
3 | more than sixty feet long and erm over the last two or three years er I 've made a patio at the bottom , right the whole width of the garden |
4 | Er I 've organized a children 's Christmas party , it 's called Christmas party . |
5 | It is not natural to work through the night shift , I 've worked it , there is no way of starting a week without your Er I 've slept a night before , somewhere at the weekend , when the day comes , but you 've got to go the next night to work . |
6 | So I 'm not creeping back for my job but anything erm it 's not that and erm But the lads in the lodge sometimes you 've got to and er I 've got a bit of er well a speery voice you know rough so sometimes I get a little bit of control on them and erm also as I said about these chaps that are working , erm we 're not blind , we know what 's happening and we 've got sympathy even with them . |
7 | Erm yeah if er you have no objection , what it 's for is the , there 's this outfit called the British National Corpus and they 're trying to make a record of English Language as it 's used in the late twentieth century erm so it 's a sort of resource for further scholarship so it can assist in writing dictionaries and studying grammar and , and all sorts of things like that and erm they 're attempting to tape conversations from all over the place erm er I 've got a bit of bumph about it , it 's quite interesting erm and in some cases it 's sort of out of erm er it 's out of people 's homes , it 's out of broadcasts , it 's out of meetings , it 's out of all sorts of things erm at work and at home erm |
8 | well er I 've got a tenner in the bank that counts |
9 | I had to bring my passport with me to er obviously get into coming from but er I 've got a letter from Alan as well so er me over the border . |
10 | I , it went through alright , but er I 've got a reminder this time so I I thought well |
11 | I , I just think er er I 've got a feeling |
12 | Well firstly the bill did n't have that rough a passage in the House of Lords , because there are only two basic amendments , er that we 're dealing with in the House of Commons that matter , and one of them is the one you 've just mentioned , the answer to it is this , er I 've had a lot of criticisms of giving B R the untrammelled right to bid , er right from the outset their criticisms to do with the danger that you would n't get competition for the franchises the private sector would be afraid , and incidentally this is not a sell off it 's it 's a way of getting the private sector into British Rail with all the advantages that brings , they would be afraid that they would face subsidized and unfair competition , above all , perhaps , British Rail ge=management would feel if they were bidding against their employer that would be a real discouragement to bid , and we 've a lot of evidence er that they feel that and that there are many who do wish to bid in management/employee buy outs , so what we 've done in the amendment is we 've preserved the right for British Rail to bid , but we 've dealt with those criticisms and worries which have come from a lot of quarters not least from within British Rail itself . |