Example sentences of "[no cls] i 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 | That 's why I went sh I had a hangover , a raging fucking hangover |
| 21 | Erm I 've a feeling it 's the eighteenth . |
| 22 | It says it finishes at midnight but erm I 've a feeling piss off like like about eleven . |
| 23 | Erm I had a problem with the Amstrad keyboard . |
| 24 | No I said erm I had a conversation with Gillian about reading , about little bits of reading and , I made the point that we 'd said last night about him barking at print , reading through words that he did n't know and not asking what they were and she said she 'd noticed that . |
| 25 | Erm I had a phone call just before I came out , area area party , so this 'll come It 's about actually in the ward which we narrowly missed getting last time just by erm not even a very strong The by election is on September twenty third and we want leafleters this weekend , so if anybody is able to go on leafleting , which is right between It 's er I 've got the phone number for Forgot the surname but she works with Bob , so if you ring up and say this Is that Linda who works with Bob . |
| 26 | Erm I had a company called and Advertising erm where I went along to a company and would conceive promotion for them . |
| 27 | Erm I had a go at one of the gaffer 's . |
| 28 | Er like if I was selling somebody who was employed , I erm I had a radio , if I was willing to accept twenty pounds off a friend of mine who was unemployed , I 'd expect thirty of a guy who was working . |
| 29 | Erm I have a map stencil |
| 30 | There are , there are other ways to come by children , erm I have a relationship with a man who has three children erm he 's been married , he 's divorced , separated , and I do n't feel that I 'm replacing the children 's own mother , I feel like I 'm not even stepmother , I 'm just their friend , get on very well with them , and we we share I share mothering , if you like , with their own mother whom they see . |