Example sentences of "er [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 | Er I 'd a lad , a Street , , , that 's what it , they used to call us . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | You mentioned er you had a friend that worked at the , the bomb dump at Lindley . |
| 17 | And you know er you have a pole and then |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 , |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And it was a great tragedy cos er it did i i it did cause the general strike and er we had a week of the general strike . |
| 25 | Er we had a virus , now I 've still got this sore tongue that keeps coming back , very badly . |
| 26 | Now er when we 'd done a waggon er it was n't just er right , that 's alright , er we had a railway examiner come along and er he 'd go round it and if there was anything as he was was n't satisfied with , or any other further repairs , he he 'd stop that waggon from going out , and er of course we had to go r go back and do it . |
| 27 | These were er in , in its infancy then and er we had a soup kitchen and er we , we got soup once a day , when we got issued with it . |
| 28 | Oh yes , because er we had a lot of letter going back an forth to architects or to other slate merchants or to quarry owners . |
| 29 | As a matter of fact , that what they were lacking in and we er we had a driller and er we had a driller and er horizontal lather for turning and a grinder , when I say grinder I mean emery wheel , and that 's about all we 'd got in the shop . |
| 30 | As a matter of fact , that what they were lacking in and we er we had a driller and er we had a driller and er horizontal lather for turning and a grinder , when I say grinder I mean emery wheel , and that 's about all we 'd got in the shop . |