Example sentences of "[no cls] i [vb past] [adj] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And er I heard this clanging . |
| 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 should 've gone abroad but I would n't go I er I er I had this position offered in the electricity works here then |
| 9 | Er I do n't know , er I do n't know I 'm not er I do er I had this brother , I had this brother , and he was er he was a lecturer you see , and he was supposed to g go to West Bridgford to talk to this Co-op Comrades Circle on the problems of the Saar . |
| 10 | Erm but th anyway , there it was and er I had this pain Not not acute , that 's why I was n't that worried . |
| 11 | And er I went six times and it never made any bloody difference . |
| 12 | Oh dear , and er I got new pair of sheets , because they were erm they were the ones I had . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I , er I said suitable lifting or moving equipment . |
| 15 | Then we had to change the Unions to Newsize and er I er I became National President of the Newsize er district inspectors branch of Newsize Yes I was president till I retired . |
| 16 | It did n't get me out of very much , except a few guard duties and er I collected one stripe , and then two , and I did the pay and all sorts of things . |
| 17 | Er I felt another thing which I , I was n't too happy about but then again one can soon change these things . |
| 18 | He said er we had a big hoo hah he said er I borrowed some money off him he said some time ago to do something with and I had n't got the money he said and when I sold the plot of land he said I paid him back what I owed him cos borrow the money . |
| 19 | Er I paid thirteen pounds , ninety . |
| 20 | He er he believed in other punishment Lines and that description But er I liked that chap er very nice chap . |
| 21 | At the time er I did various things , I was in the |
| 22 | And er I joined this territorials they come and then I joined them , and we went to Camp Parkgate for a fortnight . |
| 23 | Er I wanted some tablets Doctor . |
| 24 | Alright , no no if you say numeracy then they 'll know what it means but erm I fe I felt that numeracy and mathematical skills would not be applicable to all , I mean , I do n't think it might |
| 25 | Ne mo I meant next week . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Well erm I had different kinds of positions . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 |