Example sentences of "[pron] can see [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a grand bit ham I can see on the tables down there . |
| 2 | And when he came into the Pincushion Room and rested his elbows on the window-ledge , he would look out of the window at the garden bright with midsummer sun or bathed in moonlight and think , all this is mine , that garden , that fruit cage within the flint walls , that lake , the Little Wood , as far as I can see on either side of me and in front of the house and behind , all that is mine … |
| 3 | The identification is often questioned , but so far as I can see on no adequate grounds . |
| 4 | Er , I can see on the top there but there 's lots there and there . |
| 5 | Any , hang on Anth oh the green one is for what I can see on the picture , I think the green one is Sleepy |
| 6 | And I can see on his face his glad too have you back . |
| 7 | The only thing that I would ask everybody in Oxfordshire is to write to our M P's here because er yes it 's true that I do n't know what the returns are from last night 's voting , but I do know that er the only local MP that I can see on the voting on the last occasion was John Patten , here in Abingdon , and he voted no . |
| 8 | I can see to all the nitty-gritty for you — I know you 're not a family for bothering your heads with that sort of thing , you 've got better things to do . |
| 9 | I confess that in spite of the many negative sides I can see to you I would have expected you to be good management material . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I can see into your mind , false wizard ! |
| 11 | ‘ Can you tell me where I can see about getting a bed ? ’ |
| 12 | One of the problems it seems , that I can see about this , is that the little sort of semi- diagram , you could almost reverse the , the and have the same sort of problem in other words . |
| 13 | You might answer , ‘ Given the map in Figure 10 , I can see at once that the dotted line is the best route . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We have discussed the possibility of doing an album or EP of covers ; the only problem I can see at the moment is that we tend to approach them all exactly the same way — speed them up . ’ |
| 15 | this makes quick reference easier as I can see at a glance whether the magazine has the pattern I am looking for . |
| 16 | Can I make a suggestion rather than re-numbering all those , its going to be quite a long job , is that from what I can see at the moment there is no reason why that ca n't be added on as a last sentence to nine anyway , cause nine says you records the outcome of the enquiry , . |
| 17 | ‘ I can see for miles . ’ |
| 18 | it 's cold up here but I can see for miles |
| 19 | I can see for myself how much you have done , and how her spirits have improved . |
| 20 | Why , I can see for myself what has been done . ’ |
| 21 | There is no ground that I can see for making any such substitution . |
| 22 | So it seems to me that what Williamson has shown in one particular case is clear evidence of punctuation , but no reasons at all that I can see for supposing that the mechanism of change was any other which Darwin described over a hundred years ago . |
| 23 | It 's just colours I can see through my tears — just smashed bits of colour . |
| 24 | ‘ I lived in America for a long time and I can see through the glossy image-making of his campaign , I think . |
| 25 | Do n't you think I can see through that ! |
| 26 | ‘ It 's my least favourite kind of music ever , because I can see through it all . |
| 27 | I can see through your page there . |
| 28 | Because I can see through it I still think I can escape . |
| 29 | ‘ And I can see through my dad , as well . |
| 30 | From where I stand I can see through the half-open doors of the ward , the long lines of white beds , the charts , the flowers on the central table , whose scent fails to mask the smell of antiseptics as flowers on the bench must have failed to hide the smell of humanity from the judge in less sterile days . |