Example sentences of "he could see his " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he could see his Mum and Dad outside the house talking to Jack . |
| 2 | Looking through the metal bars , hypnotized by the revolving wheel , he could see his own body , broken arms and legs flopping grotesquely , bouncing from girder to girder on its way down . |
| 3 | He could see his reflection , turned gaunt and ashen , in the fragment of mirror propped against the lavatory window . |
| 4 | Slowly Lachlan moved to the side , to where he could see his two wives , one on his left , one to his right . |
| 5 | He could see his room — the white walls , the shelf of shells , the ocean in the window — but they could 've belonged to anyone , they meant nothing . |
| 6 | Through the side window he could see his grey garments and underwear hanging on a small washing line outside . |
| 7 | The Museum was virtually put together by one man , the late Alex Massin , who sadly died of cancer before he could see his museum open to the public . |
| 8 | Unless Mr Aznar can come up with a convincing exposition of his economic policies , he could see his lead slip away once again . |
| 9 | He was lying on his hard , as it were armour-plated , back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely . |
| 10 | He could see his informant behind the wheel . |
| 11 | He was certainly no coward , but he was likely to remain steady only as long as he could see his way clear and be sure of what to do . |
| 12 | At night , when he was getting ready for bed , he would switch on his bedside lamp and stand with his back to it so he could see his shadow against the far wall . |
| 13 | In some fantastic way , he could see his mind like these barren screes — a frozen cascade of broken rock face lying on the more solid rock waiting only for an impulse to charge it into dangerous motion . |
| 14 | He could see his mother , playing with Pippa , and his wife talking to a woman friend by the window . |
| 15 | He could see his face in it . |
| 16 | He could see his father lifting the lid and taking out the wedding-dress , not knowing what to do with it now that he was getting married again . |
| 17 | Maybe , over her shoulder , he could see his faithful feed in the wings . |
| 18 | He had not been to any of the social functions advertised — it would have seemed like living his life backwards to enter voluntarily a church hall full of women and cups of tea — he could see his mother at the urn and himself as a boy handing round those very cups . |
| 19 | She had thought to do it in a civilised fashion , not confront him with her knowledge of what he had written about her , but he was persistent ; he could see his prize and her dollars slipping away . |
| 20 | He could see his hand clenched against the grimed crack of the white tile . |
| 21 | He knew this because he could see his lips moving . |
| 22 | He could n't hear anything , but he could see his father covered in pollen and then he had watched the actress get off the train and a lot of kissing and hugging , and everyone behaving the way theatre people always did behave . |
| 23 | He could see his reflection in the mirror , + wondered why he was white . |