Example sentences of "could [adv] [adv] see [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We tried to identify distant hills , but in the dense heat haze that now hung about us , we could only just see Whernside and Penyghent .
2 Like Tom , she could not really see Liza in the role of ministering angel , nor could she imagine her out in all weathers driving a tractor .
3 Where there had been three men there were now a dozen , although he could not now see Diniz Vasquez .
4 Would-be interpreters studying the music could not only see Elgar 's intentions in the printed score , but could follow the creative process a stage further — to the ultimate stage , in fact , and hear the creator realize his work in its natural medium , that of sound .
5 But from her two-room concrete refugee shack , she could now just see Palestine .
6 Although I could n't actually see Maté 's sneer , I felt it in the darkness .
7 For her own part , Theodora could n't really see Amy , small and frail as she was , physically assaulting anyone , not so as to kill them .
8 If you looked at the Trees ' upper halves ; at the streaming leaf-hair and the mischievous faces of the Silver Birches and the wise , implacable solemnity of the Oaks and the cool , wanton beauty of the Beeches , you could very nearly see similarities to Human features and Human characteristics .
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