Example sentences of "they could see a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There seemed to be lights glowing behind the Worm 's flesh , and dimly , very dimly , they could see a room with beds closely grouped together . |
| 2 | On approaching the pub they could see a figure in a black T-shirt with white lettering through the opaque glass of the gents ' toilet . |
| 3 | They could see a man with a ladder up against the cinema putting up the new poster , and the small round figure of Peggy Pine coming out of her dress shop to stand and look admiringly at her window display . |
| 4 | From here they could see a light from an inner window of the gatehouse . |
| 5 | They could see a difference between imperialist war and imperialist peace , and they fervently believed that , even short of the revolution , their own actions might be capable of preventing another Great War . |
| 6 | Chattering excitedly the children tried to open the other part of the building but it was still padlocked securely , they could see a little through various cracks but there seemed to be nothing of interest in that part . |
| 7 | The house seemed to stand in a field near the top of a hill , and they could see a long way . |
| 8 | Further away , they could see a high bridge between the hills , but the station was too far away to see . |
| 9 | Framed in it they could see a letter . |
| 10 | They could see a lot of lorries , and a lot of men were working there , building the new town . |
| 11 | The hills levelled out as they reached the crests , and they could see a vast , rolling country expanding blindingly far northwards ; a sea of white frozen breakers tumbling into an unknown shore under a clear sky . |
| 12 | They navigated by the , by the ley lines , that 's why you find monuments built up on hills so they could stand in the middle of the of nowhere and they could see a , they could either feel it through their feet |