Example sentences of "not see " in BNC.

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1 These people , like Jagger , Bowie and Ferry have all got something you can feel , but not see ; a rare ability to have charismatic contact with people , ’ he added .
2 ‘ I suppose , ’ he said at length , ‘ that we could Play stupid , and not see the connection .
3 Twain is quoted as recording that ‘ one may ride ten miles , hereabouts , and not see ten human beings ’ and that ‘ the hills are barren … the valleys are unsightly deserts … it is a hopeless , dreary , heartbroken land …
4 In other words not see science in isolation from economics , anthropology , politics — all these disciplines should be working together . ’
5 I am no blind mouldiwarp , my Lady , nor no well-trained lady 's maid to turn my head and not see what is stated not to concern me .
6 Why do older people not see themselves as old ?
7 You could go all night and not see a single soul and the same in the city on a Sunday morning .
8 M. B. On Dock Duty , you 'd stand all night and not see a soul and the Liver Building up there with the clock gradually going round and you 'd think : ‘ I wo n't look at it , I wo n't look at it at all . ’
9 ‘ I would rather see and be seen than be seen and not see .
10 I did n't want to return to the village : I wanted to stay here in one of the huts and not see any of them ever again .
11 The Louvre too , though not cheap , has so much in it that you could spend days there and not see all of it .
12 After all , audiences want to be entertained , not see their idols with feet of clay .
13 Should the bride and groom not see each other the night before the wedding or even before the ceremony .
14 Try to see these masses and not see each individual feather as a separate entity and use the patterns of plumage to reinforce the bird 's colour and form ( Figure 6 ) .
15 Not see .
16 You 're not see you 're not thinking in twos you 're not thinking I 'll go up one and up two squares and okay .
17 Would n't it be better to be alive , maybe see things like Antoine — or maybe not see things like Antoine .
18 Now that he was getting on in years he wanted to take things just that little bit easy , not see patient after patient , cramming in as many as possible , but space them out — eight , ten a day was enough — for with his practice so long established and his clientele so solid he could n't imagine any reason to fear blanks in his appointments book .
19 Their captain ( for so I must term him — though their forces understand no battle order and hurl themselves pell-mell on us like mere animals who must quench their parched throats with blood ) , a certain youth who is called Dulay to his people , with a trick of the eye that makes him seem to look at you and yet not see you ( and other tricks beside — I have seen this same swart creature climb a ladder into the air as if it were a tree planted there foursquare ) , we apprehended as he fled from our justice .
20 ‘ You know , Anne , you can get too close to a problem and not see it properly .
21 ‘ But they not see him go out , ’ interrupts Jancey .
22 But they not see Darius because he not been in since five o'clock .
23 It is difficult to pick up a magazine these days and not see an article or item of news about the latest attack on some computer or other .
24 To be here in Spain and not see things at close quarters was a great waste of such beauty , and she had no intention of asking Mitch to tag along either .
25 One could spend a lifetime in Granada and still not see everything .
26 Following the verdict Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane , Kahane 's son and a leader of his anti-Arab Kach party , vowed that Noseir would " not see a day without fear until his very last " .
27 Travel less than half-a-mile in a built up area without finding a fast food restaurant — yet travel west for 600 miles and not see anything but grass .
28 Russia is ’ not see king political or military advantages in this hemisphere . ’
29 ‘ Did it not say , If You Do Not See What You Require , Please Ask ? ’
30 But when you saw things like If You Do Not See What You Require , Please Ask on the walls , you felt that everything was somehow all right .
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