Example sentences of "er [pron] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 And there will be opportunities to apply for support from the British Film Institute and elsewhere erm in order that we can expand er what we 're doing in that area and I , I just wanted to let the board know about that and to say that erm er this is the route that I 'm currently taking and erm I will be reporting to them when there are specific developments and that I hope that you approve of er me attempting to expand our provision in this area .
2 Erm but er I learnt to write a fair hand , erm without too many flourishes , which er because I was always told that somebody might be looking at this in a hundred years time , or more .
3 We both smoke but er I smoke roll your own cigarettes and I and half an ounce lasts me a week .
4 I managed to keep afloat then till , as I said we found this half a lifeboat and there was couple of fellows and er I managed to swim over to that and pull myself up on it and for there the inflatable off the standby boat came alongside , picked us up and put us on then standby boat .
5 and er I managed to get er do forty odd years and erm now I 'm quite happy on the pension that they gave me .
6 And er I managed to get the children to this place called .
7 I mean that 's a , a thing that er I remember seeing a TV documentary and there was this bloke , I du n no if he was from the Terence Higgins Trust , I do n't think so , but erm er anyway he was going on about this , this very thing that there 's often the homophobic imagination er has this sort of slippage between you know , consenting adult activity and if you 're gay , if you 're homosexual then this probably means that you 're also interested in seducing children , you 're also interested in sado-masochistic activity er you 're also interested in , you know , a whole variety of other , you know , things which
8 sometimes it may be to do with dress , demeanour , mannerisms , you know , kind of again you know people go for oh I do n't know , I mean there 's a conversation er I remember overhearing erm with some friends in Leicester and they , they go to motorbike rallies a lot and erm er they were describing an incident where they pitched their tent at a rally and some blokes came up and pitched their tent next to them and they were erm two blokes had arrived together on the same enormous immaculate motorbike and they 'd got sort of matching leather outfits erm
9 Well it , it must have been heart trouble the earliest memory I have of that is mother sending me with a neighbour out of Street , a Mrs , to tell my Aunt Lucy which was my dad 's sister , who lived in Street house , house was right opposite their gateway , now Aunt Lucy and there was er her family she w married a fella in and her daughter , her son and me uncle was my dad 's brother , I lived in the house with her , but er I remember tagging this Mrs from the Street down to Street along road and past the hospital , then along Walk and I up in Street , and er tagging Mrs and er Mrs had never met Aunt Lucy and er me Aunt Lucy suffered , what in those days they call it white leg , a woman 's complaint she was bedridden and er when we went in she must have asked why we were there , Mrs was a little bit flabbergasted and I blurted it out oh me dad 's dead , and me Aunt Lucy nearly went into hysterics , so that 's , that 's all I can manage I remember about that .
10 And er I remember going to the doctor 's with me Mother and where as we sat in the surgery which was packed , eventually the old doctor come out of the door old .
11 Erm my mother , we were a little bit better off than they were and er I remember going to a child with my mother , to see what would be my aunt you see and uncle , and the only time I ever remember seeing my aunt with eleven children was sitting at the corner of a table with a sort of a coarse apron on and just sitting there and I never saw her doing anything .
12 Second man in is and he was from Sanco Texas er he only flew a few missions with me , in training I 'd had another co-pilot and er I had checked the co-pilot I had when the crew was organized out , so he could go back through and come as er as a Plane Commander with a crew .
13 And they used to catch pheasants and er I had to clean I had to pluck these pheasants and er birds and get them ready and ready for them to put in the oven .
14 Oh w when I first went to place I I had to er I had to clean er clean I had to I was like a scullery maid .
15 I moved on from that then I was fifteen then , and me Dad was he was a butty and er so er I had to go on the face then .
16 I had er I sent the dimensions to the firm at Oxon and er I had to go to the bank and borrow the money , because you see the money I paid if I do n't pay cash I 'd got ta have six months delivery .
17 and the Stationmaster 's office faced the platform but there is another door that to get into as soon as you got in the main door to the left , you see and with a flap and that 's the door that we used to take in the parcels , you see and very often we used to go in that door or sometimes we would go through o on to the platform and go in the Stationmaster 's door , you see and then there again , if I took messages to the Stationmaster on the single telegraph er I had to go down the steps because th more often than not that they were in the basement .
18 The night duty was made up of nineteen areas , they made the nineteen beats , and er I had to go with older policemen learning each of the beats .
19 And er I had to ask out this quarter of an hour early , well I got me hair all combed out all ready to go you see ?
20 And er I had to fall back very often just write , I saw Mr follow the horse in in in that that churning power .
21 Erm but erm then due to certain reasons of erm er it was again er bit of struggle between myself and my colleague and er I had to choose to leave .
22 Er I had noticed .
23 Er er you see it was all , with me it was when I , at the time I went to work and er I had to leave work to have my baby you see .
24 you know , but she , er I had to leave her my cardigan and she 's gon na phone me when I go back
25 And er I had asked there was anything you know , they would be interested in and they all agreed that they wanted to start with banking , and wha , see what Sandra had done last er ta last year with a group that they thought was very good getting them to be aware
26 But erm because I 've been out there doing this and that 's that was part of my if you like to come in to do the recruitment side of it , er I had to experience and I 'm glad I did because there were one or two pre-judgements I had about advertising sales , as most people do , erm that I had to get wiped out of my erm my my system .
27 But , at fourteen , my job was to er I had to fetch the coal and the sticks , to light the er stove that held the irons , and er they they were er d I I Like I had to go to the coalhouse which was down fourteen steps , the steps were wooden ones , outside the upper floor , where we worked .
28 No , and I had I er I had tried to appeal to him to be quiet , he said well I 've got to build this shed , I said well it do n't have to be during the night when other people are trying to sleep , he said well that 's up to them , and he started hammering again , while I was talking to him , and then I kept on and on and eventually , I think while I was talking to him I 'd kept him quiet while I was talking to him .
29 And course we 're doing a lot of counting today this wrist is a you know I do n't mind that you see what did that wrist was that elbow I had to have a second operation on it , in the arm up here because er I had to have some bone taken away in the elbow course it stretched guiders but they also erm disturbed the wrist joint because it was in plaster like that stretched round and disturbed the wrist joint and I ke it 's it weakened it and it 's only just it 's only just this what last nine months that it 's that it 's really started to effect this but I know what it is that 's because I keep going out doing the odd jobs
30 Rob made me a cup of coffee and erm I forgot it had been standing there and er I went to take a mouthful course I got a mouth full of skin did n't I ?
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