Example sentences of "[unc] i [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | One of the major problems we 've got is that erm the w I did some figures yesterday that , that tended to suggest that in fact our productivity performance overall is about two point seven at the moment even without having had in and without having units in and so on , so we have increased our productivity , marginally , despite the fact we 've got temps in and we 've got those new business people . |
2 | Yes we ca I think these ducks must think we 've got some bread for them , but we have n't have we ? |
3 | What er Sandy what happened about the hot sweets today was the su I had six customers all came in , they all saw the strudel and they said , oh , we 'll have strudel . |
4 | I did n't recognise myself , to be honest , er I anticipated all sorts of revelations to b have been made but er they did n't appear . |
5 | And I thought er and er I had wee tablets that you gave me a while ago , Brusdeximit |
6 | I became incredibly vi er I had violent feelings erm , I wanted to go out on the street and rampage . |
7 | Oh yes , oh yes yes erm and I 'm on about er on about , for one thing , but you 'd be surprised er it 's the biggest and most elaborate trade of any in the world , locks and keys , I say that very firmly because er there 's no limit , there 's no extent and you , there might be required anything and as I say er I er I had these locks for the asylums and that , you know and er I thought I mentioned it before , I made fifty fifty locks all different and I had to number them and keep a record of them and er I had a , you had the keys on a wire , numbered one up to fifty and they was for big , big asylums , you know what I mean and er they could go in one ward , I 'm on about places where they 'd have twenty or thirty people , you know and er there 's only one bloke could get in there . |
8 | And er I went six times and it never made any bloody difference . |
9 | Well er I mean well things like communal ownership advocate them to be reforms |
10 | So to my mind , er the , the people dare dance should have been yourselves er I mean some years ago where your jobs are very secure , you knew that you were likely to see the end of the term in e e employed . |
11 | Well it 's interesting that er I mean these quotations get It must be very clever research . |
12 | And of course the old joke goes like er I got two brothers and each brothers got a sister and I 've got a sister . |
13 | Er I paid thirteen pounds , ninety . |
14 | At the time er I did various things , I was in the |
15 | Though I suppose one has to make a passing one has to make a passing er reference to the information which has come out in the other house erm and be publicised this weekend in the press but er er at one million almost one million a slug , M E Ps do n't come cheap , er I suppose one however would want to make allowances for the fact that they have three parliamentary buildings , that they have to go on trips and that er they have to pay er er I suppose German rates for their bureaucracy so there clearly are exceptional factors and indeed I would n't want to make too much of that . |
16 | And er I want some pills for circulation , I 've only got two left . |
17 | And er I joined this territorials they come and then I joined them , and we went to Camp Parkgate for a fortnight . |
18 | Er I wanted some tablets Doctor . |
19 | And he 'd he 'd been on the dole er I think two years , and he 's just started up a a building site . |
20 | I mean for instance on the question of identification after 45 years it 's very difficult , I saw that in the Demianuk trial , to get satisfactory er evidence , but of course er I think British rules of evidence probably would simply mean it was excluded if that was the case , and it was fairly done and the law were n't changed and it was the law as it stands er then I 'd be in favour of it . |
21 | Well er I think those bits that are in there are really just bits of weed . |
22 | I would n't have gone rush I mean some mothers have gone rushing up the school and complained . |
23 | Erm I know some companies actually sell send the large ones out |
24 | Well not in the thirties of course but after the War there was one because I er , ah well this , no , this was much later , much much much , because I married my second husband and erm I had two children fairly quick . |
25 | Well erm I had different kinds of positions . |
26 | I was in the United States when the invasion of Iraq the invasion of Iraq into Iran , and I saw the whole situation with the aid of erm the United States mass media , so actually erm I had different ideas about erm what is the outcome and what is the results of the erm invasion was , and I took erm throughout the conflict I took an opposing view , because I always viewed the Iraquis as being aggressor and they inflicted damaged to a neighbouring country and erm they had erm no whatsoever rights to do anything like that and we see it again when erm they invaded Kuwait , they have no right at all erm they it is just the policy of the governing body of the Iraqui regime . |
27 | I mean last time I was at an opera was erm I had these tickets now erm I took my sister and a friend of hers . |
28 | Yeah but they 're doing the distance learning course at the moment on publicity and P R I think erm I had some papers about that somewhere |
29 | Erm I hope two sentences , thank you Mr Chairman . |
30 | Er Now a lot of things in Lakehoff 's paper perhaps people have disagreed with since then such as the things about tag questions and hedges erm I mean some studies have said that if you look at the actual modality of tag questions , like we said before , the actual function of it |