Example sentences of "you could [adv] see [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You could barely see the barber jackets for the brollies … torrential rain and wind made the going heavy everywhere at Cheltenham .
2 The last time Oxford played fellow strugglers Bristol City you could barely see the pitch .
3 The tide was already on the turn , you could just see the stone margin of the path they had walked .
4 The fabric was so delicate that if she wore it without a brassiere you could just see the outline of her nipples .
5 Between the block and the house you could just see the walls of the walled garden , flint-built , crossed and coped with brick-work .
6 Perhaps even more important is the inclusion of a preview facility since before you could not see the effects you had selected until printing out .
7 The houses were linked together with heavy fretwork windows so that you could not see the sky .
8 Sometimes you could not see the food for the trees .
9 So th they , yo yo you could n't see a situation where the person who er was previously in disgrace , was no longer in disgrace , and the one , the the the brother , then showing je jealousy , was himself in disgrace .
10 It was warm in the city , but you could n't see the sun ; it hung somewhere behind a sky pale as a cataract .
11 Back there you could n't see the road up there .
12 Although you could n't see the greengrocer 's feet because of the apron .
13 This had now been soldered to the main building so well that you could n't see the join .
14 You could n't see the trains but you could hear them .
15 The organ pipes are in the middle of the chancel and you could n't see the east window at the .
16 to do erm wallpaper and we , we loved and wallpaper and you , is there , you could n't see the book anywhere , er probably in London you could , but erm round here you could n't , but they had the book down here .
17 You could n't see the signposts .
18 Working out the visibility was easier as we did have guidelines here — a tree on the other side of the airfield was at 1,000 yards , a distant farmhouse 2 miles , and if you could n't see the briefing room it was foggy .
19 And the brown part was n't the earth , but thousands and thousands of baby gulls , packed so tight you could n't see the grass under them !
20 You could n't see the card until you unfolded the handkerchief and now Wexford looked at it for the first time .
21 He got his head so low you could practically see the cleft in his buttocks .
22 ‘ By the end of the fortnight you could certainly see the difference in the children and the orphanage ’ she said .
23 He had missed her moment — he knew he had missed it — ; yet his eyes softened suddenly , and you could almost see the shadow fall from his shoulders as he twinkled down at Laura where she knelt before her dying fire .
24 not only as to its erm very elaborate tracery patterns and and mythical beasts on it like that , around here , but also as to its colour cos although the original we found was actually blackened , when one took when I took a very powerful torch to it , you could actually see the colour in the crevices still , this red colour .
25 The Israelis had turned the Damiani soap factory into a municipal museum but you could still see the family 's name in fading Arabic letters on the archway at one end of the building .
26 And I never found any embarrassment there because there was I always saw the wom woman , you could always see a woman chemist .
27 Well you could always see the join .
28 Luke picked up his whisky , his freckled hand was so big you could hardly see the glass .
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