Example sentences of "[vb base] [modal v] " 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 | So Bartle may have been a corn spirit , christianised to become St Bartholomew whose day falls at the right time of year , or even a former village priest as has been suggested . |
| 3 | What I mean may be clearer after some autobiographical reflections . |
| 4 | Well I mean may be there 's there 's there 's an argument on teaching contraception measures . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I mean let's let's not reject it if it 's useful . |
| 8 | I mean let's say this |
| 9 | I mean let's take one er because of the hyper- inflation in Venezuela you pay fifty percent on debt there . |
| 10 | I mean let's face it |
| 11 | No but I mean let's be fair about these though , be fair to them , and in the erm , to see that they carry out your suggestions or advice is with the area local authorities , |
| 12 | Not , not to be s unsympathetic but I mean let's try and get this in |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | No , no not a blocked one but I mean let's face it |
| 15 | . 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 ? ! |
| 16 | We 'll wander round , I mean let's to know that we can sort of just have a little walk as it were . |
| 17 | Well it , I mean let's face it it is n't gon na be no bigger than a clock is it ? |
| 18 | and I mean let's face it you might not like it ! |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | Well , I mean let's lets face it you 'll be sat in the car you 're gon na get crumpled are n't you ? |
| 21 | I mean let's be honest if we all turned out that 's five and if the rest of the Executive Committee turned out that would virtually take it up to ten we would n't be looking for many more after that |
| 22 | I mean let's face it it 's not realistic . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | If you get more if you get all these I mean let's be honest that they 're going to have lorries etc . |
| 25 | It ranks high among those topics which you fear may bore your listeners , but which , secretly , you take very seriously . |
| 26 | Developing a ‘ collaborative classroom ’ did not mean suddenly insisting that everyone works together all the time ( as some teachers fear may happen if enthusiasm for ‘ group work ’ gets out of hand ) , but rather creating conditions which would allow the collective resources of the group to be used to support and enhance across the whole range of classroom activity . |
| 27 | Many practices are worried that only by taking a fund can they retain some independence from what they fear may be increasingly arbitrary or incomplete control by the family health services authority or its eventual successor . |
| 28 | John Fletcher , who spends his spare time stargazing , photographed comet Swift Tuttle — an object which some astronomers fear may collide with the earth on it 's next visit . |
| 29 | The type of diet we eat may influence the activity of brown fat , and thus our metabolic rate . |
| 30 | Taylor and Walton note that sabotage can be difficult to define : at one end it merges with informal practices which become almost part of normal procedure , ‘ neither openly demanded nor openly questioned ’ , while in extreme cases sabotage may be identified with explicitly political violence . |