Example sentences of "you see [conj] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 can you see that please , can you make total of eight there , we 've got wait to orange like thing goes round to the eight
2 Yeah can you see that better there ?
3 Can you see that maybe , if at some time in the future , you do have er , some bad health , or perhaps get involved in an accident , that after a period of time , it might be difficult to actually find the money to pay for this plan we 're establishing tonight ?
4 They 'd hear it th th they would n't erm they 'd know through the agent , when the ships were coming they used to make it their business to go and find out you see but today th they even got telephones on the houses now so they can call 'em out .
5 All bachelors , stood along the counter , you see , and er they were all good friends and though some of them had , had retired , one had retired and we , well there most of them had retired because er my husband was fifteen years older than me and er yes anyway erm he , he , he retired , let me see , we married er when I was forty four , you see and erm he would then be , well no , yes he 'd be just fifty nine , you see but nevertheless , we had thirty two years very happily married and so when he died , he was ninety one .
6 They want rearing and all that , they want to rear you see but so long as you get them settled and stand on them do anything , keep them down .
7 So these wee things I I knew and er my staff soon found you see that well they just had to go along and do the job as it should be done , you see , and they were no good at kidding me that it had been done , for I used to examine everything that was done you see .
8 but you see that only lasts so long they , they perish
9 O.K. I 'll try do a version , but it does effect on Q P 5 an Q P6 you see as well coughing .
10 Yo you see as well to go with what you call them ?
11 That 's why it 's best not to tell people that you 're doing it you see because then they they 're careful what they say .
12 With a great big cans , you had to fill it with that molasses , and we had to pour this all over the grass and then , shorts , our shorts were cut off breeches you see because then we used to wear them first and we cut off them off to make shorts .
13 No I 've got this big problem you see because very often pianos are at the centre of orgies .
14 That was hot , yes and th in between there used to be that 's where your furnace used to go in and come back and up out the chimney and that they put them the in there to heat the water quick you see and yet they ought to be , they had to be sliced out with a what they call a slice , cos they used to get furred up and we used to give them nineteen and sixpence for that to fill the boiler up again , we had t used to have take Pinmill and they used to have to come up to get fresh water into the anchor boat and we used to pump it up by hand , into the boiler .
15 Or you might go to a sports club and meet some colleagues , or some friends there , and while you 're training together you 're talking , about other things , you see and again , you ca n't be , you 're not thinking about work .
16 They chopped a lot of cable into one inch pieces you see and just gave a bit of this out .
17 well anyway er , you see and well anyway er so when , that night and we were by coach of course bus , went there by bus and so that night she said to me , what are you doing when , in the bus , she said , what are you doing this evening ?
18 He 's got a white collar you see and also he 's very big
19 I used to bring them home and then , well father and me used to slaughter them on the Monday , you see and perhaps a bullock on the Monday and every Wedn every Monday morning the men from the farm , cos he had a farm , you see , used to bring perhaps twenty bullocks up through the street and he used to pick one out to kill , every Monday .
20 And the youngest was bathed first to the eldest and as the young one was bathed bed , upstairs to bed , upstairs to bed , you see and so it went on .
21 In fact my own wife , she came of a big family and and she had to look after most of the the younger children until they started work you see and then it was the next one that had to look after them again you see and so on , and that 's how it went on .
22 He was cremated and buried up at Creeting in my parents ' grave and that 's what 's going to happen to me , you see I will be cremated because erm , you know they make a sort of well and take off the top stone and the pebbles and things and er and then the ashes go in the and so in a casket do n't they and you see and so we shall
23 Oh I know , he said erm , let me see , oh he says , er like that , if it was a narrow road er you er pretty well covered the road and I looked , I said , covered the road , I said I know I 'm big , but not that big a and of course everybody , the magistrates on the bench and everybody laughed , you see and there were newspaper reporters sitting down there writing all this down , you see and so I said to the sergeant , I said , would you be kind enough to send me a newspaper to er tonight and he to I am not sure if I can oh yes I think I did .
24 But me wife was good then you see and so was my son and they both worked the farm you see .
25 I just ca I just I 've never done psychology before you see and so it 's like erm
26 It started nineteen seventy one or seventy two , it must have been , when my predecessor and I were sat down , and we said what about a band , they all said , what band , well let's have a band , and and it started just like that , and we , we managed to get the whole of the brigade alerted to it , and we had a meeting at headquarters , to which about forty or fifty people turned up , of which two had probably blown a an instrument in the past , and there was enough enthusiasm to learn and we had a , a chap who was a musical teacher in town who was would happily teach our people you see and so we went out , we had a penny , with no help from the authority or anybody else and we got every type of brass instrument for a band on tick and we said we 'd pay for it , and er
27 That 's how I was taught you see and so in spite of the long lapse of years there 's still a tremendous amount up there because it was , it was properly learnt , you learn something thoroughly
28 Well , so there you are and I told them , he he said that he wanted erm a urine sample you see and so of course when the nurse come after he 'd gone , later and I kept waiting and I thought to myself well I want to know the result !
29 But I thought she was stirring it you see and so did Diane .
30 you see and now at the harbour they 've done that harbour mouth so that Walberswick will not be affected
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