Example sentences of "[verb] he could [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Praying he could n't see her agonised blush , Leonora smiled shakily . |
| 2 | He had never been a happy sightseer and until his work was done , until Harry Lawrence 's killer was identified and caught he could n't see himself playing the tourist at the Changing of the Guard , or the Tower of London , even Poets ' Corner which he had longed to see , as a passionate student of English poetry … that would have to wait . |
| 3 | ACTOR Woody Allen was heartbroken last night after being told he could not see his children for Christmas . |
| 4 | But at her door he was told he could not see her , and he realized she had not forgiven him . |
| 5 | He turned round , looking south and west , though he knew he could n't see the tall building from the street . |
| 6 | All three thought it right that the fight continued in the eleventh round when McDonnell 's right eye was all but closed , though the fighter admitted he could not see from that eye . |
| 7 | I have always looked upon you as Theo Daniel said he could not see the pain Frederica said was in the olives , and Alexander , still lecturing , said that Vincent had objected to paintings of symbolic Christs in Gethsemane by Bernard and his compères , had torn up his own , had made do with the olives themselves . |
| 8 | From where he stood he could n't see the hospital wing . |