Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] see [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worse , I could see clearly the image of Mala clinging to him within the circle of the powerful golden arm . |
| 2 | At first it was behind Claypole Ridge , and I could see only the top of it , the smallest smudge . |
| 3 | their dates erm so happens as far as I can see only the twenty fourth of September |
| 4 | I can see now the attraction of those religions which exalt the achievement of personal tranquillity above ail else . |
| 5 | She was still bent to the Dobermann when she discovered that she needed a moment to control a knot of emotion that came from the thought that she would see neither the dog nor its owner again . |
| 6 | Look in any Golf Club professional 's shop or at the advertisements in any golfing magazine and you will see everywhere the implication that ‘ professional ’ clubs need to be different from those used by ordinary golfers . |
| 7 | There are others who can see only the broad view and the general thrust of an operation . |
| 8 | So you can see just the sort of material which goes into the newsletter , here is an extract from an article on anaerobic training which will appear in the April issue . |
| 9 | You can see here the abrupt double peak of Sgurr Dhomhnuill . |
| 10 | And you can see here the affect of er forty six percent increase in the price of bread , seventy eight percent on beer , eighty four on cars , and R P I has moved up seventy nine percent . |
| 11 | From here you can see clearly the frieze of mountains around Lake Titicaca rising steeply from the water and the spits of land which thrust themselves towards Amantani . |
| 12 | But as we 'll see later the different sort of connections that you have er affect the behaviour of it . |
| 13 | As we shall see later the basic premise underlying an inspection will vary with the circumstances of the inspectors . |
| 14 | As we shall see later the social anthropologist 's view of society as a network of person-to-person relationships almost takes it for granted that all human interactions can be broken down into elements of binary exchange of this kind . |
| 15 | We shall see later the suggestion that such hamlets were operating infield/outfield systems before the well-developed common field system of the high Middle Ages was introduced . |
| 16 | We can see here the personal link between Fabianism and New Liberalism as political movements , the positivist and functionalist methods in social science , on the one hand , and , on the other , the sociological and realist movements in American law . |
| 17 | We can see exactly the same connections being drawn in the case of Frances , Jenny and Ian . |
| 18 | Notice also that there is an alternative and syntactically simpler way of expressing the second version , which is : ( 12 ) Haberup angered his golem We can see exactly the same type of ambiguity in : ( 13 ) Reg ran the engine dry The adverbal adjective version of ( 13 ) corresponding to the question what did Reg do to the engine ? tells us that Reg reduced the engine to a certain unsatisfactory state ( though he may at least have had the sense to stop at that point ) . |
| 19 | Finally , we are so close that we can see only the details of the actions : feet kicking balls , spades scooping up sand and so on . |
| 20 | We can see only the end-product , and have to infer the vanished scaffolding . |
| 21 | To refer to a method we shall be discussing more fully in Chapter 3 , we can see much the same sort of development with respect to the survey . |
| 22 | We can see though the result of it . |
| 23 | The least attractive side for paid golfers must be the continual travel , the airports , the courtesy car that fails to show , the lost baggage , and the certainty that when they get there , they 'll see exactly the same faces , talking the same shop , week after week . |
| 24 | He could see the money in the paintings and he could see also the alarm wires leading to them . |
| 25 | Allen climbed a tree but although he climbed to a high bough and hung there swaying like a squirrel they were in a low-lying bowl of forest and he could see neither the Smoke nor the last rays of the westering sun but only leaves . |
| 26 | Before another reading of this poem on the same visit , he announced that it began where he had begun , and that it ended where he and his wife hoped to end — in the parish church of a Somerset village ; he could see now the pattern of his life completed . |
| 27 | Two wooden fences , two wire fences , and all lit as day , all covered by the watch-towers standing in each corner of the compound , and over the highest of the wooden fences he could see only the roof of the prison . |
| 28 | Here , he could see only the occasional flutter of movement , as the fearful denizens of the area tried to keep out of the way and out of trouble . |