Example sentences of "you see i [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 You see I ca n't understand you
2 You see I ca n't afford to spend a great deal on anyone this year .
3 You see I ca n't remember if they 're if they 're pulling my plonker or not , but that is the sort of thing I do , but I ca n't remember anything about it .
4 No but you see I could n't tell you at the start because you 'd sound , you would n't have said half the things you did say .
5 You see I could n't spend a hundred hours on a painting and only ask that amount of money .
6 So you see I could n't fight with them too much cos I thought they 'd take it out on dad , so I said look I do n't want him here , I do n't need all this but I said another thing that got my goat , you asked my mum to help turn my dad , they asked my mum if she could help turn him because they did n't have enough staff or he could n't be turned and when my mum turned him she come out and was sick and cried her eyes out cos he had no skin from the top of his spine to the bottom , and he had a water blister like that Joy yellow on his arm , his penis was nearly the width of my arm pouring with blood , and septic from the catheter , oh and the smell , you 've never smelled nothing like it from the sores and the wounds , cos he was cut from here right the way down to here and they had a , all his legs were festering and gangrene in his legs
7 Aye you see I can not tell you the right story , but when Mary Queen of Scots
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