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Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] erm " in BNC.

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1	And so after a while erm we found that , apart from one or two minor anomalies , er that our members were able to achieve round about forty seven , forty eight , forty nine percent .
2	My posting came through and I was posted to Swordstone this side of Norwich , so I was still quids in , I could get home once a week , twenty four hour pass and then erm after a while erm , having served at Regiment , I was posted up to , as the Sergeant Artillery Clerk with the Brigade , an ack-ack brigade up at Coventry , just outside Coventry and then of course the A T S were coming in , were coming in in quite large numbers then and they were replacing male personnel and then I was posted abroad and I went to Egypt where I was there again , fortunate enough , I suppose , to go into the echelon , the second echelon which was the Records Office of all the forces or the armoured personnel in the Middle East and I worked there until I was actually demobbed from there but I was out in Egypt there for two , just over two years , came back to Northampton where I was finally demobbed and allowed to come home and as I said I came home one week and I was back at work the next .
3	That 's right , and I think what has been shown if you look at the behaviour of organisations sometimes after a disaster erm those that think in that way actually create even more procedures .
4	Well , yes , I think there 's a recent report of a rape erm I think if you 're saying well , you know , a rape is a very , very serious incident of sexual harassment , that 's not to be denied , and I think it goes beyond being sexual harassment .
5	Er we would find it difficult to justify public concern about a specific location er in advance of a decision erm the principle so we would prefer er a step by step approach er which reflects the special circumstances er of Greater York , and I think Greater York is a special circumstance if only because of the number of authorities erm er thus far involved .
6	And certainly , if you look residential centres , which is one part of , of a treatment erm of what we have in Scotland or or nationally
7	Yeah I , I suppose it is a tt it is a bit of a problem erm particularly for some of the stuff which you know it , it tends not to be dealt with very , very deeply in sort of general textbooks like some , you know , erm I think things like er some of the , you know some , some of the stuff that erm ah for example er people like Rob do erm
8	But can I say something erm , Bill , we 're at the end of a Parliament erm John Major
9	I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot
10	Tablets control epilepsy very , very well now and you can go for probably years without an epileptic fit , then all of a sudden erm somebody will think oh I 'll try leaving off my medication and of course they have a fit .
11	But when the order came signed by the president you know , hands up , who 's commander in chief , not so fast MacArthur , you 're out of a job erm MacArthur accepted that .
12	It might be a bit of a job erm keeping them separate .
13	I think one of the main reasons why we would support the inclusion of a Policy erm E two in the structure plan is because North Yorkshire is adamantly a very rural area and therefore whatever happened in that rural area must be a strategic issue .
14	Now of course from the special school point of view they will say well many efforts are made to attempt to bring community life into the school and to have children erm or give them experiences in the community , so that you provide both a sheltered environment and also the opportunity to learn in the wider community , and this debate is something of a dilemma erm I do n't know that any body can give a definite answer to it .
15	In A Days Work , Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat erm we know come to a
16	Memory is a bit of a misnomer erm , because if you switch the computer off and switch it back on again , the file wo n't be there any more , because it has n't remembered it .
17	No actually it was just , it was just like a question erm find X. That
18	I 'm , I think , I think I 've got a different criticism which is that much of it is still too much like a newspaper erm that it 's , as I say , that the modular structure of the news pages is too relentlessly like , almost like , the Times of eighteen twelve , I mean too relentlessly little blocks that sort of sit there and although there 's Helvetica bold in the headlines , it 's , somehow the relationship and flow of stories in many ways does n't seem to have changed , it 's the presentation
19	Mobility in North Yorkshire is increasing dramatically , has increased dramatically over the last ten years and I think there are sustainability arguments against a level erm of provision at fifty er around that level .
20	it is sim because of the big difference between the Sales Of Goods Act and buying privately , for that reason it is an offence for a trader erm to pretend not to be a trader .
21	And I erm I actually like to discuss back to basics for a while erm on communication perspective i in some of the what 's happening at the moment .
22	Ehm is a it is n't actually a a erm a new school it 's Birchwood High School it used to be Margaret Dane which has been established a few years but Birchwood just been started for a year erm it has is some information but obviously there have n't been any feedback from the school so I starts there .
23	This this this is because the the Department of the Environment lost the paperwork for a year erm because apparently the Home Office are un incapable of reading documents unless they 're in order , and they take them in order and it takes them a year to read them .
24	Erm John 's Dream the National Playwright 's Network actually wrote back to me and said they 're quite happy to read your plays for a fee erm but I intend to re-write that before I put it in er for a reading erm Oh , I I sent a poem called Pleasure to Woman 's Weekly in June last year and I suspect they were actually planning to use it but they 've had a New Year 's clear-out and I got it back yesterday .
25	The issue of whereby a breach of the peace is likely to be occasioned is also a question of judgement , and it would be somewhat unusual for a court erm perhaps erm months later to go against the policeman 's view , a view formed in the heat of the moment , where he had a firsthand erm taste of what was going on .
26	I 've got Lyn who 's due to go back for a month erm end of May for most of er June , upstairs
27	if you wan na come out with us for a meal erm we 're gon na go to The Fox .
28	Erm , and another form over here for a horse erm and then when I found my true self erm , here I am , Socrates , and I 'm trying to withdraw from my erm what erm called the empirical self .
29	I 'm looking for a nut erm , for this , so you know hold it in position , found one , while I 'll looking I found this and it 's just the job
30	Well in a sense we were able to give this very quiet manner and very enthusiastic , very explicit , very kindly , very polite erm man his chance to relive for a moment erm this great contribution that he made in the past .