<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side two <&>3:40 so <.>did did you see anything today <,,><&>3 that <.>you <,> <{><[>liked <[>oh no cos i've put an offer in on that one <{><[>in <.>the <[>oh you have yeah i went and signed up for <{><[>that today <[>oh wow good <{><[>for you <[>and he rang back that's what that message was and said no <.>they they want eighteen <.>d hundred and eighteen as a minimum tut yeah and he said they were going to come back for word offer of a hundred and twenty <&>4:00 something and i told them not to stuff around and say what's their bottom line so they <.>ga they said a hundred and eighteen and i said well look i can't afford to offer any more until i've seen my bank manager yeah so <.>i'm <.>s so a hundred and eighteen is THEIR bottom line and what had you offered i'd offered a hundred and fifteen <,> <{1><[1>it's pretty close but i sort of think well i mean it's beautiful you <.>c <.>we it's an open house tomorrow <{2><[2>so you can go and have a look at it if you want to <[1>so yeah <[2>oh gosh well i COULD if <.>i <,> if i'm packed on time but i don't know <{><[>if i will be <[>oh what time are you going six oclock but i've got heaps to do right <.>it's well it's between twelve and one um <,> and if i don't get it i can think oh well it didn't get enough sun <.>and didn't it <{><[>oh <[>the sitting room doesn't get any sun at all <.>and but <{><[>it's a very evening sort of room the back of the house is sunny and <.>this and the kitchen <[>right mm and the kitchen dining sort of <{><[>part thing has got a BEAUTIFUL out <.>door <[>so the you could sit in the dining room yes BEAUTIFUL garden ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS <,> <{1><[1>and it would be okay for counselling too it's <{2><[2><.>got <[1><.>so <.>you <[2>you went and looked at some at other houses didn't <{><[>you <[>i went and <&>5:00 looked at lots of other houses today <{><[>oh i've looked at lots of houses <[>mm oh right <,> and haven't seen anything you liked NO NOTHING to approach it <{1><[1>there's nothing like it anything for that sort of price is <,> pretty <{2><[2>scungy but <.>th i mean there will be others there'll <{3><[3>be <.>other <,> <.>g well there'll be other character bungalows like that i looked at some units today that are SO tiny and <.>SO oh god <[1>mm <[2>oh <[3>mm mm <.>but when you're used to space going to a very <{><[>small place <.>you <[>well the older houses have bigger rooms <{><[>and like i'd rather <.>have oh fewer bigger rooms than too small <[>yeah yeah i suppose you get used to anything <.>i'm i mean jen and jonathan moved from a <,> biggish house into a unit and at FIRST it seemed AWFULLY tiny going there but i've <{><[>sort of got used to it now <[>oh <.>their their unit's quite big <,> yeah <.>no oh well i mean <.>that and for that sort of price <{><[>they're TACKY <[>mm right tut i went and looked at a house just along the road from greg and doreen today it was very like THEIR house <{1><[1>it's very like my house <.>in in um <,> palmerston north but not as nice <{2><[2>and it's on the market at a hundred a fifty i just went for a sticky beak because it was <.>open <{3><[3>open house <[1>yeah <&>6:00 <[2>mm <[3>mm <,,> mm <,,><&>3 i don't know <,> if i can get this house without too much pain i will if i can't well i won't mm mm oh well it'll all happen while i'm away if <.>it if it <{><[>all happens <[><.>well well <.>the the settlement <.>date when will the settlement <{><[>date be <[>is the twenty sixth of june <{><[>so <.>you you're back <[>oh wow day after your birthday it's my birthday it is your birthday mm i thought your birthday was the twenty <.>fifth twenty sixth is it <,,> mm? <,,><&>4 <{><[>i had a two <.>to so the weekend <.>after the weekend after the weekend i get back <,,> <.>f <[>twenty sixth i don't know it's <.>a i'm going out on my birthday anyway it's all arranged friday night so you don't need to worry about it mm? you don't need to worry about it <{><[><.>because my birthday <&>7:00 <[>about what i'm not worried about it <{><[>i was just saying i you'd be working <.>out you'd be leaving the weekend after your birthday <[>oh that's all right thought you were working out when you <.>can mm well <.>if <{><[>if it goes through <[>i mean <.>i i just don't think it'll go through you know it might you don't? well it might hope it does yeah it <.>sounds it sounds ideal for you well <.>it's no it's not IDEAL but it's pretty damn good <,,> mm mm the seventy cents there is all right what's that oh i'm just seeing my new zealand rural property trust things are seventy cents they've gone up from fifty eight to seventy cents oh that's another <{><[>sixty <[>word i haven't really <{><[>word <[>so that's good i mean i paid a dollar for them so they're still not wonderful mm yeah oh and the things that <{><[>i paid a dollar for have been sort <.>of are down forty or fifty for ages <[>is <.>it mm i haven't even checked <{><[>mm <[>things like that what are brierley's these days <,,> i don't know these are unit trusts what's the share market trust <,,> <&>8:00 australian share market <,> industrials mining <,,> i don't know i don't know how you read them oh do you know how to read them tut only in the vaguest sort of way <,,><&>7 must have brierley somewhere here <,,> can't even find them the builder's coming in on the sixteenth <,,><&>3 of june is that after you get back pardon oh there's a light on downstairs did you know that that ellen i'll have to go and turn it off won't i um it's <.>the i get back on the fifteenth and he's coming in on the sixteenth probably if the <.>stuff if we can get the stuff <.>for we need <,,><&>3 mm <,> see it gives industrials in the <&>9:00 australian share market it doesn't give property <.>one the property ones that i've got i've got to go and see <.>this says there's the share market week oh right oh unit trusts? <,,><&>6 word oh i don't know i <.>can't have you got more wood should light a fire oh yes we <.>ha is there no wood outside i don't <.>kno i mean <.>i i don't know just <.>out out by <.>the just round the place where it usually is kept what about pine cones there are pine cones there's ONE <.>s of those pine cone things actually belongs to alison the others are ours <{><[>so if <.>you <[>well if you come and get pine cones i'll get wood <{><[>okay <[>voc might as well turn this off for a moment <&>9:49 <&>tape turned off <&>10:18 well I wrote to rosalind today that's nice so she can word no longer needs to complain that i never write to her who's that rosalind oh that's good i wrote four pages <,,> typewritten single spaced i need one more word oh right yeah we're doing well that's probably plenty what <,> oh we might as well fill it up and I will start cooking dinner soon i thought i'd well i'm going out to dinner oh you <.>are going out for dinner tonight yeah i said i was going out for dinner <{1><[1><.>well well i rang last night to see if it was last night or tonight <{2><[2><.>so and it wasn't last night so it's <{3><[3>tonight <[1>why oh <[2>oh i see <[3>tonight where are you going <&>11:00 don't know <,> out somewhere nice yeah maybe yeah hopefully oh it'll be nice <.>je malcolm's shouting so <{1><[1>donna is oh well i'm choosing laughs <{2><[2>laughs <[1>oh well <[2>she's choosing the restaurant she's <.>shou he's shouting everybody <.>mal well he said i'm not going to shout them they can come and they can pay for themselves and <.>i he said you think i should shout them and i said well you did stay there for a month he said i paid i said well you paid for your food you didn't pay anything else anyway he said um i'm going to take mum out to dinner and you can come if you <.>like oh we'd like you to come but you can pay for yourselves and donna said that'll be the bloody day laughs i'm not coming unless you're shouting and i'm coming laughs god she <.>s sort of tells them doesn't she well she does with him i wish she <{><[>was as outspoken with me but i mean yeah <[>yeah mm i had lunch with <.>marion with her and tiffany jacqui was away with a friend and patrick had gone to squash with malcolm and yeah and greg but that <.>was that was nice <{1><[1>and <&>12:00 she's worrying about me she's worrying about me buying this house when i told her i wanted views and outlook <.>and and sun <.>and and <{2><[2><.>this <[1>how was it <[2>and you're buying a house with <{><[>no views no outlook and no sun <[><.>and and <.>it look i said said you have to see the inside of that house because i nearly didn't go in <{><[><,> it just doesn't look anything but it's BEAUTIFUL inside and <.>it's the back garden is BEAUTIFUL <[>mm mm and so anyway she said she'd go to the open house tomorrow but <{1><[1>she <.>is <.>she's she's looking after me that's where i've got <{2><[2>our goals wrong <[1>mhm <[2>so <.>it's oh right i've been wanting to help her and support her and look after her and that's NOT what it's about at all she's looking after me <{><[><.>i <[>oh right so you sit back and enjoy <{><[>being looked after see how that goes <[>so i thought mm might be quite different mm will i'm going to cook um pasta al calabiore i think you're whatty cauliflower pasta oh really i think we've <{><[>got some pasta <[>how do you make that i remember joan made it at my place in <&>13:00 palmerston north one night <{><[>it's lovely and it's in that book too <[>oh right word <.>it's it's in moosewood <.>how <{><[>how do <.>you <[><.>it's well it's in my hip and thigh diet book too well no i don't think it's got the pasta in it but you can put the pasta in i think it's just called italian <{><[>cauliflower <[>yeah is it just like cauliflower and tomato sauce <{><[>yes <[>mm oh yum you know the one that i usually cook unless there's something else you'd rather have elle no or you want to eat out or something yes i'd <.>like and plimmer steps too what's at plimmer steps <{><[>plimmer house is gone <[>plimmer house oh is it mm all the big expensive restaurants have gone they can't survive in today's <{><[>world <[>oh <,> i'm just as happy to stay at home unless you'd like to take me out i'm just as happy to stay at home okay i meant to ring kaye today and tell her you're here have you rung her <{><[>no <[>i drove up there cos there was a house for sale in <{1><[1>glen street <,> um right opposite her but it <{2><[2>looks a bit scungy <[1>oh right <[2>oh right yes all the houses on her side of the street are sort of voc biggish and rather nice and <&>14:00 the ones on the other side are sort of smallish and not so nice <{><[>mm <[>oh really mm you've been to her house elle yeah but i've never looked at the houses i'll give her a ring in a minute see what she's doing yeah she might like to come over mm or you could give her a ring and see what she's doing do you want to give her a ring um <,,><&>3 oh did you get this voc <,,><&>3 yes you did good i told you i rang him <{><[>it was the word mm <[>oh that was the one you talked about yeah yes i thought it was an agent <&>14:35