Example sentences of "she could see [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the window , she could see her friend , Florence Ames , filling the freshly-turned beds with rows of small green plants from the boxes by her side . |
| 2 | It was this latter statement that had got Agnes back into the house , because she could see her sister , in her present state devoid of any common sense , doing something drastic . |
| 3 | She liked to be outside , liked to watch the day waxing or waning , liked to be where she could see her household moving about . |
| 4 | She wished she could see her better . |
| 5 | She could see her mother and younger brother John watching TV . |
| 6 | She could see her goal ahead of her , so close she was practically inside . |
| 7 | Every time she crossed Putney Bridge she could see her mother 's windows high above the north bank of the Thames . |
| 8 | Outside the front door , which was open , she could see her father standing talking to someone in the porch . |
| 9 | Out of the window she could see her father sitting in the plastic chair by the pool . |
| 10 | She could see her easy life becoming harder . |
| 11 | She could see her own face reflected in little in the black pupils of his subaqueous eyes . |
| 12 | She could see her own breath as she exhaled . |
| 13 | She could see her grandfather was keeping his hands to himself , standing quiet and still , as if he wanted to make the least contact possible with the room . |
| 14 | She could see her qualities ; she could see why Bob liked her . |
| 15 | She could see her father , foolish in his pride , and the rich gentleman of her mother 's imagination laughing at the poor Durbeyfield family . |
| 16 | She could see her future closing like a fist before her eyes . |
| 17 | As the men came into view , she could see their shapes clearly enough , though their faces were blurred in the flickering light . |
| 18 | Already she could see their faces , the faces of the fucking bloody middle class , when the subject of money was on the agenda . |
| 19 | Out of one eye , through the curtain of his rough blond hair , she could see their bodies in the mirror on the wall . |
| 20 | She could see its possibilities straight away , something she had never seen in those gloomy other chambers . |
| 21 | No , she could see its face now . |
| 22 | Seven-thirty came and she glanced through the curtains to see if she could see your car drawing up . |
| 23 | She had spotted the cigarette smoke from afar and now she could see his feet protruding from under the canvas . |
| 24 | She could see his old confidence flooding back as he began to realize that everything was working out very conveniently … . |
| 25 | She could see his brain struggling to find an escape route and that he should want one hurt and shocked her . |
| 26 | She could see his face quite clearly , as it was lit by the gas street lamp just a few feet behind him . |
| 27 | She could see his mouth moving but the words were strange , alien . |
| 28 | She wished she could see his face . |
| 29 | " When she was lying on her thin pallet at night she screwed her eyes up tight and then she could see his face . |
| 30 | She could see his decision not to bother to try to explain that Brian hardly knew anybody in Northam Town Hall , and that Brian 's salary as Head of Humanities at an Adult Education College hardly rose to paying his own mortgage , let alone to buying a house for his ageing father . |