Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] could see [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last September I visited a garden which was nearly a thousand feet up , and I could see that the gladioli , planted as dormant corms in early May , were n't going to flower . |
| 2 | Siegfried was already seated and I could see that the little triumph of the morning had cheered him . |
| 3 | All he really wanted was to be next to O ; and you could see that the whole time he was listening , watching . |
| 4 | His face remained creased with thought and she could see that the answer had n't satisfied him . |
| 5 | He was beckoning to them and they could see that the group was preparing to move off . |
| 6 | And he could see that the distance was in any case too short : his cannons would never be able to re-load in time . |
| 7 | But I could see that the moon above my head was really on the wane . |
| 8 | The twilight was fading fast when she entered the bedroom but she could see that the child was still sitting bolt upright in the bed . |
| 9 | She 'd visited him regularly when he was in prison ; but he could see as the months went by that whatever that special something they 'd had , it was withering away . |