Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] could n't see [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pushed me through the door , face forward , so I could n't see him . |
| 2 | a proper one , hi Holly , alright love , so I went , left it and then I went called back last night after college and he said oh I have n't done it yet come on he said we 'll whiz it on the band saw , put it on the band saw and he 'd taken two nails out that you could n't see you know the , the old stamped cast iron ones , the ends had snapped off |
| 3 | Antoine held her close so she could n't see him weeping , but she felt it . |
| 4 | There is a rather improbable story that , when Captain cook first sailed into Botany Bay , Australia , the size of his ship was so far beyond anything that the local aborigines had ever seen that they could n't see it at all . |
| 5 | I wriggled until I could peer over the edge into the wet depths below and I could n't see him at all . |
| 6 | The dock looked dark beyond the curtain and I could n't see him , but he could indeed see me . |
| 7 | My mother danced away and I could n't see her . |
| 8 | He 's got a wart at the end of his nose and I could n't see it . |
| 9 | ‘ Idiot that I was , I was crass enough to insist , since I could n't see her privately ; to push her into a corner and tell her … tell her — oh , lord , I must have been mental ! — that if I could n't see her privately I would n't see her ever again . ’ |
| 10 | Probably cos I could n't see her |
| 11 | It 's cheaper at twenty six ninety nine , I had to ask about that cos I could n't see it |
| 12 | But there were still the heat-sensitive beams and she could n't see them . |
| 13 | Well if it was dark and she could n't see you she might have put her arm out and hit you it does n't what it feels like is n't always what it is if you see what I mean . |
| 14 | She just sat there , staring out at us with her face all blank and closed up , as if she could n't see us any more , and as the bus lurched forward we all waved and ran off to our big school up the hill . |
| 15 | Terry told her she was a fool and that if she could n't see it looked like someone 's frilly bedspread then she must be blind . |
| 16 | Yeah , cos you could n't see it |
| 17 | But then one day , I went to visit Mike , and he could n't see me . |
| 18 | It made me feel good to know that I could see him and he could n't see me , and that I was aware and fully conscious and he was n't . |
| 19 | She was glad it was dark , and he could n't see it . |
| 20 | His measurements ought to have been enough to tell him his surface was curved — even if he could n't see it . |
| 21 | But I could n't see me staying away all that time … not from you , and then probably being persuaded to follow their line and make America my home . |
| 22 | I turned as far as I could without rocking or creaking , but I could n't see him . |
| 23 | I knew he was there , but I could n't see him and I thought he was unaware of me . |
| 24 | I know , but I could n't see them though . |
| 25 | I did n't say anything , because Graham was so enthusiastic , but I could n't see it . |
| 26 | But I could n't see it as funny at all . |
| 27 | There was a tapered garden on a hill , before those houses in a row , and though I did not understand reincarnation , I knew , he told me , about a narrow road smelling sweetly of petrol and roast potatoes , and though I 'd never been , Chock had been , it was only across the street but I could n't see it , he could see it , he told me so , and pointed to the ornate roof across the street , at the chimneys springing from a platform like stalks of green marble , the roof framed by edges intricately ribbed like steeples or the currents of the sea . |
| 28 | Men wearing white gloves moved it , but you could n't see them do it as the bodies were out of shot . ’ |
| 29 | He kissed her , but she could n't see him . |
| 30 | But she could n't see him getting smaller , any more than you can watch a plant growing . |