Example sentences of "i can [adv] see [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can just see her dripping with tears of anxiety . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I can just see him looking down that long nose of his and saying in that sanctimonious voice : ‘ there 's something you ought to know , Mr O'Shea … ’ |
| 3 | ( Crying in justified woundedness ) Oh I can just see you lyin' there five year aul' in yer bed recess with your sixteen brothers and sisters eating snotters and planning to trap our Deirdre , tie her down by fair means or foul . |
| 4 | I can just see you floating into your box at the Opera , all svelte and soignée … ’ |
| 5 | I love the club and I can not see myself playing for anyone else . ’ |
| 6 | Morris is due a benefit before too long and , despite fears in some Celtic quarters , I can not see him leaving Glamorgan . |
| 7 | Flavia went on following her train of thought , ‘ I can not see him doing even a disinterested thing if it went against a rule . ’ |
| 8 | If the impassioned pleas are directed at those close to the culprits , I can not see them having much effect . |
| 9 | Streamline 's method offers such a wide range of activities and tasks that I can not see it having anything other than effective and long-lasting results . ’ |
| 10 | But I can not see it solving the crisis of the socialist left . |
| 11 | One publisher , who did not want to be named , agreed : ‘ Jackie Collins has got a new book out called American Star but I can not see it doing very well . |
| 12 | Times are changing , but I can not see anybody stopping the world-ranked top four . ’ |
| 13 | That would have been rather But I come out here but I can not see you know you can just just get them I seen some in that |
| 14 | I can hardly see him killing Gray . |
| 15 | I said to June I can hardly see I 've got that bad a headache . |
| 16 | I have to look after two dear little boys , but these days I can only see them growing up to behave so cruelly towards women . |
| 17 | If we wish to progress up the football ladder , I can only see us doing so by winning promotion . |
| 18 | It 's probably why I can actually see it peeping out over the top . |
| 19 | Mm yes well I can actually see you know |
| 20 | Run ! at me but the message is n't getting through , there 's something else in the way , something else pulling me back , back to Andy and back to that frozen river bank ; I hear Andy crying out and I can still see him reaching towards me and he 's about to slip away from me again and I ca n't do anything … but I can , this time I can ; I can do something and I will . |
| 21 | I can still see him sitting there at his desk , me standing in front , yelling at me how lucky I was , how I 'd been given everything , was this all I could do with it . |
| 22 | I can still see myself sitting there , relaxed and comforted by the warm drink , and then there was that moment when I decided I would resign . |