Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] could see it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I do n't know it the way you two do the work it looks so fine that I did n't think I could see it properly . |
| 2 | Well she thoroughly enjoyed the life , in fact right up , oh till nearly the end she spoke about Pharay and as long as she was able she used to go and she imagined she could see it better with the spy glasses . |
| 3 | Then I finally realised you could see it , but you 'd decided simply to ignore it . |
| 4 | and when we and when we were dredging that up , that used to be all like er er trunks of trees and you could , I mean you could see it when they come up it was very light . |
| 5 | whatever they were using as bait presumably some mackerel or something like that but , but as I was saying you could see it trailing through and then all , suddenly out of like nowhere this fish would come and like chase after it |
| 6 | Another door , Harry had said , down by the river 's edge : and in fact , when I looked I could see it , a once-painted slab of wood set in brickwork , its bottom edge barely six inches above the water . |
| 7 | For a moment , she thought she could see it : fragile silver filaments of enchantment , gentle brittle frost-webs of something that was not quite light , but not quite solid , but somehow composed of both . |
| 8 | I never thought we could see it like this . ’ |
| 9 | I could n't really tell what it was till she told me , but when she did I could see it . |
| 10 | You said you could see it . |
| 11 | Even the nurse said she could see it . |
| 12 | With eyes half closed he could see it as a miniature cannon . |