Example sentences of "[pron] be a [noun] er " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah but I 'm a Scotsman er and Yorkshire |
| 2 | Well I 'm a bit er |
| 3 | In fact the Institute of Directors of which I 'm a member er said er that network marketing 's a thing of the future . |
| 4 | It 's about er ten years ago nearly that I er stopped being a teacher and when I was a teacher er up having to do assemblies er it was always something that I did with great reluctance and er was er pleased if I could get other people to do it er it seems rather odd then er that I 've actually said yes coming to do er an assembly here today and it 's perhaps a sign of mental instability on my part . |
| 5 | Er we are a bit er vexed at the management er they are sitting down to slits er splay s tt split slates . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | And they used to go and er th odd ones er and they used to go to the houses in the street , there were a chap er down th er that street opposite the er er the every morning . |
| 8 | sometimes it may be to do with dress , demeanour , mannerisms , you know , kind of again you know people go for oh I do n't know , I mean there 's a conversation er I remember overhearing erm with some friends in Leicester and they , they go to motorbike rallies a lot and erm er they were describing an incident where they pitched their tent at a rally and some blokes came up and pitched their tent next to them and they were erm two blokes had arrived together on the same enormous immaculate motorbike and they 'd got sort of matching leather outfits erm |
| 9 | right there 's a sheet er , that indicates er , what we are aware of the mathematical ability sorry , the , aye , the mathematical ability o o of every child at i.e. from Spring Gardens it will be a separate sheet |
| 10 | Now my honourable friend has already quoted er the presence the , o of the department of trade in this er er pointing out in er his book er where there 's a will there 's a corpse er er that er there should n't be a conflict of interest because accountancy firms should n't do other work . |
| 11 | Now there 's a picture er in early B R days again , of the line coming in from here and the very attractive in my opinion , wooden er structures , the shelter there . |
| 12 | There 's a advertisement er for example in a recent issue of the Guardian , if my er Dutch was erm a little better I 'd quote it into the record but erm I 'm afraid it 's , it does n't make very much sense to me at the moment . |
| 13 | There 's a chap er at our called Bill who claims that he got one one year before that but he ca n't prove it to us , er apparently he read in the Readers Digest of Neighbourhood Watch schemes in America and set one up himself in his own little area . |
| 14 | Yes there is , there is a bundle er a and what it deals with is the availability to a purchaser of the service of the special notice to complete er if the vendors are not completing and then if do n't comply with it within a certain time limit , the contract is rescinded . |
| 15 | You 'll see that there is a mix er er of grades and stages and because it 's the the real world erm in some of the tumours a a precise T category was not erm decided by the pathologist . |
| 16 | And finally , I think that there is a recognition er , from P and R about the community care issue , but it will be important that we obviously debate that in these papers and discuss it this morning . |
| 17 | There is the technical basis on the one hand , and there is a policy er er area . |
| 18 | mm , but there was a bit er , you know where the legs moved ? |
| 19 | There was a sailing er what do they call it , a here and it was him that he asked would could you send a boy there . |
| 20 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 21 | I i across the road you see , er There was a road er opposite . |
| 22 | and there was a hole er on the floor over there with a grating on it that was you could see through to the ground . |
| 23 | Because er well if there was a death er in the family at th that time they used to erm I do n't suppose you remember it but er there used to always be a plate on a table whoever called would leave a little bit money on the plate to help pay for the funeral or whatever . |
| 24 | I think they are a bit er |
| 25 | They 're a bit er |
| 26 | I think that 's what Tony 's harking back to , the old style when you went and they were a bit er callous . |
| 27 | There were no bother , they just they were a men er a a male carriage cleaner and the women were women . |
| 28 | I can imagine her being a bit er well not , not bossy like |
| 29 | On the back er table there there 's a brochure called Women at the Wheel , it 's a Vauxhall er application please do take a good copy , very good application . |
| 30 | It 's a bit er you know |