Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb mod] see [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suffered agonies of suspense in silence , for I never knew when or where I would see you again , or whether she would be with you . |
| 2 | Leon always opened his door after that and , standing in the same spot where I could see him , he would play . |
| 3 | My medlar will be planted where I can see its pure white blossom in spring and watch its autumn leaves turn crimson . |
| 4 | I take them to a certain stage , but I tend to find finishing a painting much more difficult than starting it , so I 'll leave it to one side , maybe for a week or more , where I can see it , and as I pass it suddenly something will click . |
| 5 | ‘ All of you get out where I can see you , ’ shouted Hitch . |
| 6 | I merely want to keep you where I can see you while I dress more in accordance with entertaining an unexpected caller . |
| 7 | ‘ Do you have to sit where I can see you ? ’ he demanded . |
| 8 | I 'll die , or I 'll see him dead first ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It 's a damn good job you do n't , laddie , or I could see you being hauled up before the old man . ’ |
| 10 | Not quite true , Sarah thought , although I could see their good points . |
| 11 | Her clothes were different — foreign , and smart — but her hair was red , and although I could see she was n't beautiful I thought she was . |
| 12 | I keep the snapshot you sent me by my bed , but although I can see it is you , you look different — so much older . |
| 13 | Although I can see your frustration re : franky boy |
| 14 | I had rather been hoping that I might see somebody I knew while I was in the town , but the only people I saw were old Mackenzie in the gun and tackle shop and Mrs Stuart in the cafe , yawning and fat behind her Formica counters and reading a Mills & boon . |
| 15 | ‘ I prayed that I would see you again , ’ he said , ‘ so I could ask the question I should have asked five years ago . |
| 16 | ‘ Tell her that I do exist and that I 'll see her one day . ’ |
| 17 | But , we 'll take it that I 'll see you , not next week , but the week after . |
| 18 | ‘ Unlikely that my mental cogs can turn or unlikely that I will see anything ? ’ |
| 19 | I know it is unlikely that I will see it , but just the thought that I might is enough . |
| 20 | I also know how to get the red-tailed buzzard out of a tree at night , so if it flies off I stay by the tree in which it settles until dark , then I go and fetch sticks and a torch so that I can see what I 'm doing . |
| 21 | I want to be out on a limb with my back to the water so that I can see what the rest of the world is doing . |
| 22 | if you can bear with us on that I can see we 've got some out outdoor fiends who are quite happy to be sitting here without any jackets on but other people doing , doing the opposite . |
| 23 | The hills are mine , and the living streams and the wind that breathes in the valley and the tiny white flowers that only I know because only I lie so close to the earth that I can see them move . |
| 24 | It 's just that I can see myself listening to the Brahms Quartets rather more often . |
| 25 | Then Goiko 's wife begged the master-mason , " At Least leave a small gap , so that I can see my son Jovo when he passes by . " |
| 26 | I have the clock , so that I know the time , Schedule+ so that I can see my appointments , and Word for Windows for word processing . |
| 27 | You spoke when your face was turned away from me ’ or ‘ I 'll move this vase of flowers so that I can see your face clearly . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , now that I can see you better , I can say that you are a decidedly pretty girl , even if the cat has eaten your tongue . ’ |
| 29 | It is a wide double ; the companion is of magnitude 4.8 , and the separation 41 seconds of arc , so that I can see it with × 20 . |
| 30 | ABBERLEY : Would you mind turning your cardiograph around a little so that I can see it ? |