Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [conj] [unc] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so something erm I mean it , it just seems strange to me that , you know , something which has exist existed for thousands of years , you know , he 's suddenly sort of pooh-poohing so to speak , erm and I mean obviously the fact that there was a revolution twenty years later or whatever erm me means that something must have been wrong but erm you know i it 's strange how he 's suddenly criticizing and how the criticism has n't come before , how nothing 's happened before , how this seems an opportune moment for it to happen . |
| 2 | Erm they began the union just before I left Bellany and of course it was cried down and erm they had meetings and the lot , and then all the miners were on strike at the time , and er my father and brother were both miners and er my brother was very friendly with Mr and Mr next door and er anyway er we decided to come out on strike for Bellany 's union and of course erm they , the , one , I think it was Mr said Joey he said er did you know we 're out on strike here and my brother said it seemed to be catching does n't it he did n't say he could n't say I worked there you see but erm it , it caused an upset but still up to a point the unions were good because we 're all badly underpaid for what we did , and the hours we worked they would n't tolerate it nowadays , but erm I forget er I joined the union and if you did n't you were a blackleg you know you , they wanted you to join the union from then I 've been in the union all , until I finished work but erm they , they got us our rises and er as I say the , the money was n't er very good and then the union did fight for the rises and they 'd got to pay it or lose all the er employees but erm I was , I was satisfied with without it , I 've been satisfied with my life you know I 've had , there 's been humorous there 's been sad but erm I 'm still able to get around and that 's the main thing . |
| 3 | So our politics are serious and er we have good fun as well . |
| 4 | Which is one of the reasons , by the way , why another thing you will get murdered for in the er workshops is taking two hammers and hitting the heads against each other , because they 're hardened and y they may well shatter quite explosively if you do that . |
| 5 | It would 've been better but erm I think that these terms have now become so widely known there 's , there 's no way of changing it back . |
| 6 | Bad enough and at least , I mean it 's not , on a phone you can be upset but yo it 's not the same as seeing somebody |
| 7 | Erm remember the hay we would be turning it w with pitchforks you know , and erm not a well goo drying day but you had to risk turning it and hoping that it 'd be dry but er it would be raining again the following day . |
| 8 | to service the service clan which , I do n't think will be controversial but erm I did just seat for the first part of report , the little bit about . |
| 9 | to be honest because erm it 's and that I wo n't say that there 's a criticism of this particular project which I supported at the time but I think that in future we do need to plan our projects and and there are people in the in the town that are prepared to work , perhaps need a bit of organizing , we need to think about how that might happen , but we must n't first reaction go to professional or semiprofessional help . |
| 10 | I mean I I 'd love to see the the whole history and that 's why I 'm glad that erm you people are taking an interest now in not helping us but some day somebody saying who 's that crank who 's been talking on there . |
| 11 | Well that it will not be effective until er you produce that licence to this court . |
| 12 | erm As he will obviously tomorrow as well , but erm he was a bit tense and a bit nervous before , but erm I 'm sure that erm he 'll be absolutely delighted with this result . |
| 13 | I 'm sure that er I 'm not in an unusual position er having been made redundant twice on the trot . |
| 14 | So would it be feasible then one two three four five six , would it be feasible that er you 'll have had six assignments to have done that week ? |
| 15 | I 'm pleased but e I I can tell . |
| 16 | So it 's it 's going to be nice but er you will enjoy it okay so if you hang on you 're not very loud there actually you talk a bit louder cos |
| 17 | You asked , sir , a little earlier for a definition of integrated and balanced community , and erm I 'm disappointed that er you did n't recall my paragraph three fifteen of my submission to you were I set out erm I thought erm |
| 18 | Those statements should be true but erm you would n't have the right that it was of merchantable quality . |
| 19 | And er they reckoned he were mad but er he got it back . |
| 20 | very , je jealously but , none the less , I I think er it 's admirable that er you 're attempting to do this ! |
| 21 | That 's right because er you refer to it . |
| 22 | in er , we had a cutting somewhere Marie , oh I know when we became a limited company , er that 's right and er we put in erm formally erm er take over the business |
| 23 | Well it is possible , it is possible because erm you know we 're not necessarily dealing with anything that 's horrendously difficult this year erm |
| 24 | Okay love it 's Yeah what he no , wha what the trouble is we got erm one o one our chap 's retired and erm I 'm gon na go there for the , just ask him for it , just to say , you know have a , have a quick dri , now if you 're popping over to . |
| 25 | Well it 's interesting that er I mean these quotations get It must be very clever research . |
| 26 | Elizabeth Howell , how serious is this that erm it does n't seem to be such a high priority on the curriculum ? |
| 27 | Er sometimes I always laugh I say it 's funny when erm it 's about twenty degrees outside they 're still wearing the same dress and when it 's minus fifteen or ten they 're still wearing the same dress . |
| 28 | we , I 've had when we go down , on Thursdays we go to the sports hall sometimes if it 's wet and erm we 're to erm do things the teachers and I er , have tried a bit of basketball but I ai n't got it into |
| 29 | If you , if you were the patient you might say it 's wrong because erm she does n't look like she knows what she 's doing or there 's a mistake or something gets missed . |
| 30 | Oh no no no no but if the situation is such that er you what you say is that is the s the six months has now started has it ? |