Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [modal v] not see " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am afraid we shall not see your cousins when we disembark , Ruth , ’ Mrs Carson said . |
| 2 | Those who listened to him critically were dismayed he could not see that it was not disapproval by pacifists , intellectuals or even cowards that made the Nazi assaults an atrocity . |
| 3 | GIPSY : [ examining PAMELA 's hand ] O , I can not tell , your hand is so white and fine I can not see the lines . |
| 4 | Always going on about the Fate of the Graduate Wife and how she 's fed up being a cabbage — well as far as I 'm concerned I can not see the call for langwidge . |
| 5 | Currently one staff member has her back to the door and if the other two staff were absent she would not see the light flashing . |
| 6 | She regarded the wife of former Beirut hostage Jackie Mann as a ‘ dear friend' and was heartbroken she could not see her before she died of lung cancer on November 30 . |