Example sentences of "[verb] [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is tempting to sit on your backside at the hut on a hot afternoon but an hour 's reconnoitre may repay its effort many times over . |
| 2 | But you 're , but you 're quite right you , you certainly , you certainly have the right to say look , you know , rather than signing this now er I do need some time to think I mean let's face it there 's a load of s If you turn it over on the back of the credit agree |
| 3 | No it was just it was just so you , I mean let's face it , er my father used to mend our shoes , repair our shoes , in fact I 've still got his hobbing iron now . |
| 4 | I mean let's face it |
| 5 | wherever you go wherever you go there 's gon na be all this upheaval and I mean let's face it if the Tories do n't get in this time , and pray god they do n't , Labour 's gon na completely |
| 6 | No , no not a blocked one but I mean let's face it |
| 7 | . I mean , like , okay it was n't bad I mean let's face it and I 'm not exactly flipping Dolly Parton am I ? ! |
| 8 | Well it , I mean let's face it it is n't gon na be no bigger than a clock is it ? |
| 9 | and I mean let's face it you might not like it ! |
| 10 | and I mean let's face it if he is still with the old grandmother , it 's , that 's a different world as well in n it ? |
| 11 | I mean let's face it it 's not realistic . |
| 12 | on this , on this particular matter , I would like to add erm on C E G traffic manager as a tem as a temporarily lease because , I mean let's face it unless we plan ahead we are going to be in a hell of a muddle , in trouble . |
| 13 | I mean let's take one er because of the hyper- inflation in Venezuela you pay fifty percent on debt there . |
| 14 | It ranks high among those topics which you fear may bore your listeners , but which , secretly , you take very seriously . |
| 15 | Anyone who thinks they may have become liable to tax since they registered should tell their bank or building society to cancel the registration as soon as possible . |
| 16 | The problem is that the law makes its intelligent decision as to what it thinks should happen which may accord with your wishes . |
| 17 | But to say ‘ well we may run into erm problems which we ca n't at the moment foresee , or problems which may make life temporarily a little difficult ’ I do n't think should prevent us from tackling the problem . |
| 18 | The menus listed should satisfy your appetite . |
| 19 | Of course although we 're talking about dying and nobody wants to think about dying let's remind ourselves it 's the only certainty in this life . |
| 20 | Many have been taught that in a relationship they have no right to make demands on a partner ; to say clearly what they want may lose his affection . |
| 21 | I say let's give it a go and see what happens . |
| 22 | Just say let's say they also want you to do I want you to do the graph er they wanted this one where it was twenty as well okay . |
| 23 | The words I used may strike you as generous , or too romantic , but they are not inaccurate , merely inadequate . |
| 24 | Those thus pressured may find themselves becoming interested and committed . |
| 25 | Well I do n't know whether I want let's see what this is in this parcel that came this morning . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , as I understand it , the individual may be striving towards mature object relations but finds himself in situations where those in authority to whom he may want to relate may cause him to regress towards infantile dependence . |
| 27 | what the valency is to make up this formula you could do the same if it was if someone told you it was an some unknown So if it 's an unknown compound and I drip Let's say it was unknown compound and I dripped hydrochloric acid on and I got carbon dioxide given off yeah |
| 28 | And we want to know let's say we 're interested in a a time of about ten hours or something . |
| 29 | But editors who refuse to retract damaging comments after clear proof that they are wildly exaggerated may lay themselves open to the inference from this conduct that they were similarly reckless at the time of the original publication . |
| 30 | The Bar code of conduct requires that those who appear should use their powers as responsibly as the interests of justice may reasonably allow . |