Example sentences of "[unc] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I tried to get a video cos I wa I wanted to use this section to actually watch it . |
| 2 | And course we 're doing a lot of counting today this wrist is a you know I do n't mind that you see what did that wrist was that elbow I had to have a second operation on it , in the arm up here because er I had to have some bone taken away in the elbow course it stretched guiders but they also erm disturbed the wrist joint because it was in plaster like that stretched round and disturbed the wrist joint and I ke it 's it weakened it and it 's only just it 's only just this what last nine months that it 's that it 's really started to effect this but I know what it is that 's because I keep going out doing the odd jobs |
| 3 | I 've now retired but I was a lawyer , a solicitor , and er I enjoyed doing that and er when I was a lot younger I had lots of er friends who er were all interested in the theatre , and some of them went into it professionally and some er some stuck with the amateur world as I did . |
| 4 | I would hope that if , if a parent saw er that er somebody had had that sort of attitude towards the staff that |
| 5 | There was me as well , you see , and there was nothing we could do and er she 'd had this erm , it was awful , they took her to the mortuary because some of the girls , you see , erm , you know they went hysterical and er I 'm not gon na pass her door , that sort of thing . |
| 6 | Oh you saw er you 'd seen this because er you had friends all over , I mean , the fact that you went to did n't er tt get rid of all your friends . |
| 7 | And er we went to move this lady , we got there about I suppose quarter past eight time , a summer 's day , nice day it was . |
| 8 | W that bit we gave up after the First World War but we made er we did make some of these er patented things that they had in the Second World War . |
| 9 | as far as the committee was concerned there is they 've taken a decision on the preferred route , but we did as I 've just referred to in the earlier work , er we did assess that erm and that showed again er that the traffic would n't transfer from the A sixty one onto a southern bypass and a inner northern relief road . |
| 10 | This has been talked through but with both the Social Services and the the hospital and er we decided to take that chance . |
| 11 | This has been talked through but with both the Social Services and the the er hospital and er we decided to take that chance . |
| 12 | There was n't any new town or anything and er they 'd built those er Council houses in the front in and he also erm , he said would I like a nice new house , to have plenty of hot water for the boys for bathing and everything , so I moved into a four bedroom and er I was there , er brought my family up there for , till er , unfortunately my mother came to live with me and unfortunately erm I had to go away erm because I was n't very well on a holiday and I was called back cos she was found dead on the toilet my poor mother and er after that erm I came back and erm , in the middle of the week from holiday , oh bother it will it be okay ? |
| 13 | Yes because er they 'd found these stray dogs and she says I 'll look after her and then she sang a song t to my dog . |
| 14 | And er they felt had little prestige and that the French peop The French Canadian speakers had little prestige in their own language . |
| 15 | in in coming to grips with this issue we have realised how particular they are met er and a number of members will prevent from getting to that meeting to put their views on the table and for this reason er they decided to defer that . |
| 16 | And he er he 'd made all that lace , well then instead of him going in the First World War and making the net which was used you see his lace trade all went . |
| 17 | She had still been smarting from her unjust dismissal for ‘ over-familiarity with the management ’ at Ardis & Co , when she had wasted no time in squashing two men in particular at Vasey 's who had shown more interest in her than in their work . |
| 18 | He did n't fancy another trip to the chemist 's he had visited that morning . |
| 19 | Well , cos it was in town , it was nearer to shops , and erm I 'd heard that keeping Balloon Woods ' flats warm was costing people a hell of a lot of money . |
| 20 | But erm I had to do that in between if Harry had n't got enough help . |
| 21 | And of course And anyway , we got there , it was alright , and erm I had to fill this tractor , where it was , of course they 're going to make fun of me again , first morning I 'd got to get the tractor ready , and you know them , five gallon five gallon , things can happen at the time , and I have been had been supposed to be to get the hole at the top of the can , and not spill it you see . |
| 22 | Um so erm I did have some I did have some references on this which erm unfortunately I I put to one side and I 've succeeded in losing so erm I did n't get the chance to put them on the handout but erm I 'm just alerting you to that area of debate and that area of enquiry . |
| 23 | erm I did have another one , but I do n't know where it is |
| 24 | So in fairness I got this , excuse the expression , arse about face in the sense that I ha I thought prioritize these and pensions were , was this and that 's why you were exploring the needs for the second appointment . |
| 25 | No not really erm we had to do all about guards . |
| 26 | We know that we will have further battles in the future to fight but erm we wanted to avoid any statutory commitment in the structure plan and we will be happy if we achieve that today . |
| 27 | Last year was the centenary of the Borough Charters , so on the one hand I was trying to restore the traditions of the thing — erm we tried to reintroduce some of the pomp and ceremonial — and then on the other hand I felt that the mayoralty often did n't seem terribly relevant to people of my generation , and so I tried to involve a lot of young people in various activities and the offshoot of that has been a Youth Advisory Committee which I 've set up , which at the moment is in the process of trying to negotiate with the County Council for some premises to try and increase the sort of Youth Club type evening provision in the town . |
| 28 | erm We tried to reintroduce some of the pomp and ceremonial . |
| 29 | and erm these were poultry breeders be erm scattered all over the count er county who yes the erm accredited poultry breeding station scheme was erm initiated by the Ministry of Agriculture and erm there were a number of farms scattered all over the county erm where they were open to inspection and erm we had erm had a Mrs who went round and inspected the flocks and erm they had to reapply each year to erm sustain their accreditation |
| 30 | and general behaviour we was really a lot improved because erm they had taken all their normal food like Mars bars and stuff like that and replaced it with like healthy food and er all the coke machines they replaced with like fresh fruit drinks . |