Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] could see [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I noticed I could see my breath . |
| 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 | Although the piece is set in the ‘ Roaring ‘ 20's ’ , Cy Coleman 's music rarely goes into period style , but instead exploits a cod-operatic vein , going from Puccini to Piaf , with winks and nods in all directions , and superbly served by Madeline Kahn , who has the voice of a sarcastic diva and a vocal presence so strong that I felt I could see her . |
| 5 | Now I thought I could see what Neil was trying to do . |
| 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 | And there if you went you could see them : |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I never thought we could see it like this . ’ |
| 10 | I could n't really tell what it was till she told me , but when she did I could see it . |
| 11 | And then he looked , when he put it out he looked over to me and said I could see your face Irene . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , I wished I could see her . |
| 13 | You said you could see it . |
| 14 | Even the nurse said she could see it . |
| 15 | She took the memory of it upstairs to bed with her , but all the time that she wrote she could see him sitting there as he had been when he had first lit the lamp , his face full of an old pain . |
| 16 | She wished she could see her better . |
| 17 | She wished she could see his face . |
| 18 | Even Sun , which prides itself on its ‘ belligerent consistency ’ or sometimes just on its belligerence , said it could see itself negotiating issues . |
| 19 | ‘ He said he could see I was a young man with all his wits about him . ’ |
| 20 | With eyes half closed he could see it as a miniature cannon . |