Example sentences of "but could see nothing " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked around but could see nothing prepared for the arrival of a baby Maggie seemed to have had no nesting instincts at all . |
| 2 | I looked round very carefully but could see nothing , so I turned back on the tail of the nearest Hun , who was chasing some Hurricanes in front of him . |
| 3 | He found himself looking towards the floor but could see nothing , and so shook his head . |
| 4 | She looked out of the window , but could see nothing except the darkness . |
| 5 | He gazed down river but could see nothing . |
| 6 | Cardiff ran to the glass doors , wiped the moisture from the pane and looked out into the night at the blurred orange glow of the traffic cordon — but could see nothing else . |
| 7 | He looked over his shoulder towards where the school party had gone , but could see nothing but a flat field of windblown grass . |
| 8 | He climbed the stairs but could see nothing through the hammered glass panels of the front door . |