Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pers pn] [modal v] [vb infin] the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It boggles my mind that everyone thinks they can pull the wool over the eyes of a company that 's had 30 years experience in dicking rock bands .
2 I mean they must pay the cover
3 I mean if , if people smoke too much , I mean they should put the kids before the c the cigarettes , and erm people I have heard say that , I 've seen in the pub three or four nights a week .
4 Right , what what we 'll do is I mean we can confuse the Chow test looking at the residual sum of squares er from each of these sums as the regressions on sub samples , comparing them with the residual sum of squares on a regressionary of the whole sample and the computer will actually do it for us .
5 Anyway i , d' you wan na use your hose I mean I 'll put the car in the garage if you do .
6 and I mean I 'd love the Bluecoat but I mean you 've got to be pretty clever for that .
7 Well I would er , I mean I 'd have the bathroom slightly cooler then and all !
8 W well if it wou if it would help I mean I could produce the list that we have in mind .
9 I mean I can mention the firms , there were several of them in Stapleford , because I know two , but er perhaps as well not to .
10 You see I mean I can see the goal there every day , I can see , I can see me sort of getting to the goal , I just maybe sort of go around it , I mean well a bit I mean , since I 've had these two I sort of said , you know , would it , would it be the white handle , let me show you , you know the gold handle and , you know
11 It depends which relief road we 're talking about , but I think I would accept I mean I can accept the point that er Mr is making about er the relative er benefits in terms of traffic relief afforded by either an inner northern route or an outer northern route .
12 I mean I can remember the nineteen twenty , I I were n't sure whether it was the twenty one or the twenty six strike , and my father was erm on strike , you see , but the ponies had to be thus cared for in the field an I do n't think he received any pay and I remember very well erm going to the , my father applying for relief , and er we had to go and face the erm Court of Referees .
13 Now if you come to Caldmore , you 'll find out then that the majority of the married ladies had worked in I mean I should say that erm I know my mother was very snooty she 'd been an apprentice to some dressmakers in Street and work for one year for nothing she always used to tell me , and she was quite er toffee- nosed about these girls that used that er that used to go , well they were very respectable people , and when I was a kid when I growing up in my teens a lot of the girls I used to know were in the offices at er it they employed about fifteen hundred people at in those days you know I mean coming out of at night it was fighting your way against the crowd if you were going towards it , and the same thing going through the square for people who have worked in when they left that 's why all those shops in the square used to do reasonably well , it was the people walking through to go up the other side of Walsall , but there was a crowd of people I can , I can always remember as a kid a crowd of people and then there 'd be well you can tell it was along Street in those days I can remember fruiters ' carts where the girls used to go and buy apples , and that all sort of going along there you know people used to wait for them coming out , these are my impressions as a kid I mean I can remember the , the er and the men of course were cutters and various people and a quite a lot of my father 's friends were , were er had er skilled jobs at as cutters and managers of the cutters ' department and that sort of thing .
14 I mean I can understand the point of will , will , will
15 Right sort of you could , I mean you could do the rounding up function if you like , which is what we were sort of point five or above it goes to the next int integer .
16 I mean you can get the different hashing
17 Why do I think I can do the job better than the other applicants ?
18 I realised I could influence the situation by saving resources and helping to keep the environment as clean as possible . ’
19 From where I lay I could see the repeated pattern of the sleepers slowly passing beneath the train .
20 It is the text , however , where I fear I must fault the guide at times .
21 I trust you 'll find the other one to your satisfaction , though I fear it 's hardly up to the five-star standards you 're doubtless accustomed to . ’
22 I trust you will bring the above to the attention of your committee when they meet to consider the application .
23 I trust you will bring the above comments to the attention of your committee when they meet to discuss the application .
24 I trust you will bring the above to the attention of your committee when they meet to consider the application .
25 I trust you will bring the above comments to the attention of your committee when they meet to discuss this application .
26 I trust you will pass the above comments to the Licensing Sub-Committee when they meet to determine this case .
27 Mr Paine , I feel sure , will be a candidate for some award or other and I trust he will remember the couple whose bravery obviously far exceeded that called for in the normal course of duty .
28 If I strained I could see the world as others did , stereoscopically , but if I relaxed binocular vision would ensue , and while one ‘ eye ’ would remain focused , the other would slide away into the clouded periphery where The Fat Controller and his machinations held sway .
29 " I expect they 'll draw the woodlands , " Nicandra said .
30 ‘ Well , I expect you can guess the rest !
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