Example sentences of "i [vb mod] [not/n't] see [pron] " in BNC.

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1 They stopped just beyond the steps of the food office and , all the irritation seeming to flow from him , he looked at her meekly now as he said , ‘ I may not see you again for weeks .
2 ‘ Connie , I may not see you again .
3 I always intended to visit him after the war , but you know how it is : things were difficult , I was confoundedly busy at the University , I did n't particularly want to see Viola again though you 've got to swallow the pill with the jam , have n't you , and there was no particular reason why I should n't see her again .
4 ‘ You 're beginning to make me wonder why I should n't see her , ’ he said blandly .
5 I 'll not see her . ’
6 My mother danced away and I could n't see her .
7 Erm n I as I say I could n't see her the bed it was it was a duvet and .
8 ‘ Idiot that I was , I was crass enough to insist , since I could n't see her privately ; to push her into a corner and tell her … tell her — oh , lord , I must have been mental ! — that if I could n't see her privately I would n't see her ever again . ’
9 ‘ Idiot that I was , I was crass enough to insist , since I could n't see her privately ; to push her into a corner and tell her … tell her — oh , lord , I must have been mental ! — that if I could n't see her privately I would n't see her ever again . ’
10 Well I could n't see her cos I had my back turned .
11 I said , well I could n't see her very well .
12 Probably cos I could n't see her
13 At first I could n't see them , but when I heard a little quack I had a close look and saw them all there huddled together and trying to keep warm .
14 I could n't see them either .
15 I know , but I could n't see them though .
16 I could n't see them and I was and you had
17 At one point I felt as if I was drifting slowly across a huge , vivid moviescreen , so large I could n't see its edges .
18 But I could n't see me staying away all that time … not from you , and then probably being persuaded to follow their line and make America my home .
19 No , I could n't see what caused it .
20 I could n't see what to photograph , even when I got my slides back there was nothing there .
21 From where I was out in the audience I could n't see what Clarence White was doing — so I assumed he was playing bottleneck
22 I could n't see what it was but it made a funny crackling noise . ’
23 I could n't see what that was — tears or laughter . ’
24 She was n't doing anything interesting at all so I could n't see what the fascination was .
25 I could n't see what went on behind the screen .
26 It was n't her fault , it 's mine — I could n't see what he was capable of .
27 they 're not angels , they 're a hard regiment , but they 're also highly disciplined and highly trained , I 've got , I , I , the other thing I could n't see what good , I mean is it , is it the , I mean its not , its not the anniversaries or any thing so I do n't know why they brought the out , cos I ca n't see what interviewing people twenty years after the thing happen can do .
28 and honestly I could n't see what I got
29 I could n't see her face but I knew she was older than I was .
30 I could n't see her face very clearly now , but could sense how she 'd withdrawn from me .
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