Example sentences of "[noun] i could [verb] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the roof I could see the marks of the picks of long-dead miners cut into the rock as they crouched here in the dark , hacking out the ore with no light other than the dim wicks of the oil lamps or the candles stuck on their helmets . |
| 2 | When I opened one of them and saw English words I could feel the tears pricking at the back of my eyes . |
| 3 | I was left in bed trying not to show how scared I was — shivering and wondering how long it would be before our own house caught fire , as from my window I could see the flames from the burning laundry , less than three hundred yards away . |
| 4 | Through the window I could see the rooftops of a grand old rococo building , an oriental fantasy of domes and cupolas . |
| 5 | Through the window I could see the remains of a meal on a table set for two . |
| 6 | As the wounded were being unloaded from the jeeps I could see the wounds were mainly inflicted by shrapnel . |
| 7 | ‘ With you as my guide I could suffer the fires of hell . ’ |