Example sentences of "they can [not/n't] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now they ca n't see each other 's face , just Harriet 's hair glimmering . |
| 2 | They ca n't see me . |
| 3 | The fact that they ca n't see you increases your authority in their eyes . |
| 4 | A TRIBE of pygmies has been banned from driving after 37 accidents in Zaire — as they ca n't see over the dashboard . |
| 5 | But they ca n't see trains coming and drivers do n't know there is anyone inside the box . |
| 6 | Cos some people have trouble with them and they ca n't see a difference they ca n't see any difference . |
| 7 | Cos some people have trouble with them and they ca n't see a difference they ca n't see any difference . |
| 8 | They ca n't see far enough to make out the hollow . ’ |
| 9 | They ca n't see you like I do , wanting only your own safety . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ They ca n't see us here ! |
| 11 | It 's like they 're all dead but they ca n't see it . |
| 12 | They ca n't see the darkness and the spiderface beyond and the great web of it all . |
| 13 | ‘ So what I think we 've got to do , ’ says Howard , ‘ is to set up a society where everyone has enough sort of … contentment … to be sort of contented , but not so much that they ca n't see that all this sort of contentment is sort of blinding them to the possibility of becoming sort of more contented in a sort of kind of deeper sort of … ’ |
| 14 | Because they ca n't see , it does n't apply to them |
| 15 | They ca n't see it from my flat . ’ |
| 16 | Since they ca n't see it happening on earth they invent a heaven in which it does . |
| 17 | Even more mysterious are the tiny sets with four inch screens — television for people who do n't mind if they ca n't see the program . |
| 18 | They 're wondering why they ca n't see a human inside , he thought . |
| 19 | The staff there are trained to spot suspect packages , but with millions of letters and parcels to deal with , they ca n't see them all . |
| 20 | You see people that think they got cameras out there they ca n't see |
| 21 | But they ca n't see it ! |
| 22 | and there 's a lot of people is n't it , and they do n't know how many 's dead because there 's so much dust they ca n't see . |
| 23 | So they ca n't see in . |
| 24 | The one that 's been really bad , is the one that I 'm still doing , they ca n't see that . |
| 25 | cos you think well if I ca n't see any of the cars behind it then they ca n't see me either . |
| 26 | Well , I suppose a physical sense as well , because if they ca n't see how it can continue . |
| 27 | Neil says you 've been everywhere , what are the type of things , that you know , you can use tone and voice cos they ca n't see you . |
| 28 | At the beginning of exercise strength is often good , and then it steadily declines with increasing effort and , in severe cases , patients are weak all the time ; they ca n't see properly ; they see double ; their eyelids droop ; they ca n't hold their heads up ; they ca n't chew ; they ca n't swallow ; their arms and legs are weak ; they ca n't peg out the clothes on the washing line ; they ca n't walk upstairs , and in really severe cases they ca n't even breathe — unless they 're supported on life support machines they would die . |
| 29 | Because they ca n't see the angle . |
| 30 | But I mean I , if they want to be nasty they 're going to be nasty , in a sense , and , and if they ca n't see a positive way of using something , but they still want to get it in , then the obvious thing to do is to be nasty about it . |