Example sentences of "[vb base] you [modal v] see [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she stepped further into the boatyard , she thought : I hope you can hear me , Pascoe , and I hope you can see me clearly from the tree , because I can smell the tiger . |
| 2 | and when we and when we were dredging that up , that used to be all like er er trunks of trees and you could , I mean you could see it when they come up it was very light . |
| 3 | I mean you 'd see it going round the town quite regularly emptying the gullies . |
| 4 | Even from er the quality of the brochure I mean you can see you know I mean that 's quite high level |
| 5 | I mean you must see it yourself . |
| 6 | twelve thirty three , and if you look you 'll see I 'm from Orkney . |
| 7 | Look you can see it 's all brown . |
| 8 | I think you can see we are on the road to recovery . |
| 9 | I , I mean it may not be right , but it , I mean as I think you can see it has a kind of logic about it , erm and , and i it may be that it , it 's not the right explanation , but the very fact that erm we 're suggesting it , I think shows that erm again it 's naive to think that motherhood is a kind of er is a one-sided affair where you know mothers sacrifice themselves er for their offspring , because nature demands it . |
| 10 | I 'm smiling to myself in the darkness , Timmy — I wish you could see me . |
| 11 | Joan is proud of both talent and talent-spotter : ‘ Graeme said that just by watching Steve work you could see he had something , that he instinctively knew how to handle the food . ’ |