Example sentences of "you see [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 You see something advertised like ‘ The Four Seasons ’ : well , everyone knows the famous bit , but that 's only a quarter of it .
2 Those things do n't sound fearsome — till you see them used on a man 's body . ’
3 You see we got th er collects things down here he keeps chucking rubb , he said well I need it .
4 but Bob and I did , I could , I could remember the day we moved in to a hundred and eleven er we 'd never , never been upstairs in a house before you see we 'd been brought up in a bungalow and we 'd never ever been upstairs and the thoughts of going upstairs to bed , you know , was fantastic
5 If you see we 'd got about er twenty eight thirty in this class , and er they bought the text books and we joined a national college of labour colleges .
6 You ca n't really , you see we came out into a side door into the old square .
7 You see we had heard quite a bit about him — the locals boggle at the way in which he does n't dodge his taxes .
8 And he says , oh , he says , you know it , it , you see we had some old boards that we took out and could walk across onto it .
9 Well you see they had the mail er contract on Wyre long before we start .
10 Scums strength in depth was exposed when you see they had Ferguson and Dublin on the bench .
11 Do you remember that as being a Oh aye , aye well you see they had they had the mail service here before the war .
12 Aha and also they had You see they had glue a glue pot .
13 You see they had mm , er Friday off now they went off to Merryvale , which is fine !
14 Yes but , yes but you see they got so mixed up that the ,
15 You see they came from Liverpool a lot of them .
16 But when the war came you see they came as evacuees a lot of them and then they never went back .
17 Yeah , but you see they sent this on the twenty ninth of June
18 Er they they they marched , you see they 'd no income , they 'd nothing .
19 But erm yes sometimes you 'd , you 'd get there in time but you see they 'd just , I , there , there were n't the telephones about in those days so you , you , you could n't , everybody did n't have a phone , they could n't ring in an and say I 'm in labour .
20 had to keep dragging them off to the toilet , they 'd never seen blind children you see they 'd all seen adults
21 You see they did n't do things then that they would have done today , you see , seven years and you see I at that time , well I used to used to have a day off and instead of having a half day a week we used to have full day a fortnight and so of course on my day off I came home to see what I can do to help , you see and er my mother died .
22 And then in the herring fishing time , oh it was very busy right enough , and you see they did they did no fish on a Sunday and they would come in on a Saturday night .
23 But you see they did n't know the truth of the exploration , but if the Government was fifty fifty in it they 'd be entitled to know the exact amount and quantity and what was underneath your feet .
24 because you see they did n't
25 and then of course erm because , because she just had the operation you see they did n't think it was advisable
26 And then the land you see they worked more on the land did n't they .
27 Well the aye , the quality of the cattle cos it gave you a better grass , better feeding before that you see they bought some clover .
28 You see , I think , although I ca n't prove this , you see what happened , when I was in the , in the glazing shop we were , we were on short time .
29 You see what happened ? ’ she asked .
30 You see what happened was he nearly knocked his kids over .
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