Example sentences of "now you [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now you might think that a little strange , after all the Concise Oxford Dictionary defines ‘ climb , thus : ‘ ascend , mount , go up ( often with help of hands ) ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ What you want now you might not want tomorrow … ’ |
| 3 | Yes , the time when it has to come in , the day I say I want to collect it , now you might need to say to yourself , oh dear , Mrs said the deadline was , have I met it ? |
| 4 | Now you might decide that you want to put , I do n't know F B , Fred Bloggs like that , that 's fine , you do not need to write your full name . |
| 5 | Now you might think to yourself Well that 's not a big problem . |
| 6 | Now you might think to yourself Well what the devil difference does it make , whether we know whether it red or amber ? |
| 7 | Now you might think , Erm oh a bit finickity saying do it this way , but it 's a good system . |
| 8 | Now you might agree with the audit commission , and I certainly do , that the way in which it is handled provides perverse incentive to community care . |
| 9 | Now you might that will get us on T V and it it is also self financing as well in as much as you set up the promotion , the T V companies but it off you . |
| 10 | Now you might ask what the big handkerchief was for . |
| 11 | I reckon now you might see why I did n't want to come home . |
| 12 | Causing grievous bodily harm to someone now you might say that 's a very serious offence which you should expect to be prosecuted . |
| 13 | You wo n't get any increase this year , but if you put in a good bid now you might get your allocation upped for next year . ’ |
| 14 | I suppose you might think in a case now you might think that er er certain people are n't entitled to welfare benefits or something that |
| 15 | Now you might say , er , that , that , that 's very paradoxical , why should Darwin have been prepared to consider Lamarckism , even evolution by will Lamarckism in psychology , when he , when he would n't accept it , for instance , in talking about the , the lengthening of the necks of giraffes . |
| 16 | Now you might think well stags have harem groups and they 've got these enormous antlers and they could bully and er I mean a harem group looks kind of fascist kind of social structure you know when a male dominates female , but in fact field observations of how stags actually deal with their females show that they 're very tender erm towards them and they have to have the cooperation of the female in order to mount . |
| 17 | Now you might think that 's a quote from Freud . |
| 18 | It had better not be it had better not yeah well you see see how important that I it it on the basis of your voice now you might as well walk out the door . |
| 19 | Now you might think well , what about all these people at the top then . |
| 20 | Now you might achieve vacant possession over a period of seven years . |
| 21 | Now you might think presentation and a system do they go together ? |
| 22 | ‘ And now you might ask how civil is civil ? ’ |
| 23 | On this floor now you might somebody 's just coming out you might be lucky but nine times out of ten it 's it 's |
| 24 | Because you listened to what he was saying to you , now you might not believe it but the number of people that do n't listen to what customers are saying to them , you follow me ? |
| 25 | Now you might say perhaps , without really thinking about it , well if he 's got any sense he wo n't have a lot of fe , faith in me because I am , I am a great failure , I 've let him down . |
| 26 | Now you might be give all sorts of polar coordinates and you 'll be given working with sines and coses which is where we came in . |
| 27 | Now you might think that 's incredible , but we are . |
| 28 | In order to define completely where you are right now you would need to use four mathematical coordinates , not three , and each of these would have exactly the same status as the rest . |
| 29 | Now you would n't get one as hard as that in an exam . |
| 30 | And I mean , we were told it was a first class area but there 's , if anybody walked into the building just now you would nah see it was a first class area to look at the state the building 's in ! |