Example sentences of "[no cls] [pron] have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I was n't that nervous , but er I had a go and after an hour or so I got quite confident on me own then . |
| 2 | The the thing that er sticks out is that at time there was no women organizing the union and er I had a go at organizing the women and I was very successful . |
| 3 | And er I had a letter back on the Friday from Stuart to say er according to Mr 's description it was very interesting and could I possibly meet him at Station on the Saturday morning . |
| 4 | And er I had a brother in law on the railway there . |
| 5 | And er I had a touch of a there was a gas shells dropped somewhere quite not far from me . |
| 6 | But er tt erm tt again , er I had a spot of luck , I suppose , erm at one stage we had a very ex-Indian service bloke who ha as quartermaster , had thrown a typewriter through the window , he was known to do daft things like that . |
| 7 | It 's rather like er I had a plant the other day , a marigold , and it had been there for about two weeks and it was a lovely plant , and er I noticed it beginning to droop and I thought , oh well it 's finished now , it 's in a pot . |
| 8 | Well er I had a lot of friends here and there , and when I 've had a lot of photos to develop for them , and then when I got everything done , you felt a sigh of relief at getting it all done . |
| 9 | No sisters until mother got married again , and me sister as I call her now , she 's me of course my half sister , Jessie , she was born I 'd be about seventeen cos she did n't get married till after the First World War , remarried me step-father was in the forces and he fought , he actually fought in the Boer War so he was a a soldier in the Boer War and in what we call the Great War , nineteen fourteen to nineteen eighteen , but er I had a misfortune to lose the brother next to me , Frank , which he had what was common in those days tubercular trouble , tubercular tuberculosis affected the bowels , see he died in , on August the fourth nineteen eighteen in the old infirmary that now classed as the Manor Hospital , but that was the old infirmary cos we there was no widow 's pension in those days , our mother was a bridle stitcher and she used to do have an old fashioned clamp , have you ever seen the clamps that are leather , th tha they held them , the leather , she used to stitch bridles at home , we used to help her with waxing the threads have a leather apron and a bit of wax and pull the wax over the thread , and then roll it round till it was strong enough to thread it , we used to make the threads for her to er stitch the bridles . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Er I 'd a lad , a Street , , , that 's what it , they used to call us . |
| 12 | Er I have a love of country , I know I 'm er English , I do n't like to say I 'm British , I live and was born in England . |
| 13 | Er I 've been able just this week to set up a little er programme at er at work whereby er I have a list of all the newspapers and T Vs and radio stations on a file , and I can tap in a press release , press the button and it would fax them all one after the other , to the various interested bodies . |
| 14 | with a proper petition er and er I have a copy here if er you would like to c circulate it and er sign it . |
| 15 | On a much more parochial level and I er I have an interest and I am one of these old age pensions that Mr is determined to look after . |
| 16 | And the I had a look at it once , it did look a bit |
| 17 | Yes , yes , I 've been to se I 've a couple of people up to sort of promise a hand |
| 18 | I think Paigns I 've a feeling Paignton 's far nicer . |
| 19 | I think Paigns I 've a feeling Paignton 's far nicer . |
| 20 | Er she had a sewing machine , she used to make er sort of shirts but not suits and things like that she did n't , she repaired them . |
| 21 | Oh yes very much so and we 've been these er lots secretaries and presidents and all miners and that they 've been coming up you know and er you had a chat with them and they put us do n't let this happen , do n't let that happen , and make sure that erm you know people do n't suffer and er oh it 's been quite a vast experience for us yeah . |
| 22 | You mentioned er you had a friend that worked at the , the bomb dump at Lindley . |
| 23 | And then at the end of the three years you were either invited to stay an , an extra year or s you were , you were sort of er you had an invitation from some other circuit . |
| 24 | And you know er you have a pole and then |
| 25 | My mother used to do the washing for the Americans , and er we had a photographer friend of ours that used to bring the washing-up to the house , which the story is in the book . |
| 26 | Well a lot , a lot of people er er do er ju just about three weeks ago two women from our department retired so we had er we had a night out up in , that 's where they live , so there is that kind of thing , |
| 27 | we had er we had a candidate 's committee meeting last night , in which we were concerned that a number of the other constituencies throughout the northwest , who were not as far progressed as erm er as Greater Manchester West , and we took it upon ourselves to erm When appointing returning officers to those constituencies , to recommend to those returning officers that the people guiding Manchester Central , Merseyside East , Merseyside West , whoever they may be , contact John er for advice on how to how to run the er how to run the election . |
| 28 | In Japan our small but beautiful medical information business increased its profits by forty five percent and Ladybird er we had a swing from a loss to a profit margin of ten percent . |
| 29 | And er we had a plan for to build a building with er dressing accommodation and er this was gon na cost seven thousand pound when we could n't face it , we thought that there were far more important things to deal with than that when we had housing , we had just had a housing report which said that two thousand houses in the town were not up to the modern standard . |
| 30 | Erm because of a social evening er we had a raffle and a whiskey bowl I think the purists might not like the E in whiskey but that 's the way it 's been done that must be the southern way . |