Example sentences of "[pron] can [adv] see [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can just see his eyes . |
| 2 | File it alongside ‘ I 'll put you in motion pictures ’ , ‘ I could immortalise you in paint ’ , ‘ I can just see your neck in marble ’ , etc , etc . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh I can quite see your point of view ’ is not a reaction that is on the agenda , quite frankly . |
| 4 | AB : I can certainly see his point , but I just wonder whether this is too much of a generalisation . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , I can still see my mother at the urn . ’ |
| 6 | I can still see my hand |
| 7 | I mean I can still see my hand moving |
| 8 | She might have offered something to eat , as most Northern women believe they have a mission in life to feed up any male who can still see his feet . |
| 9 | Johnson reports this and other gory tales , tongue-in-cheek so firmly you can scarcely see his jaw bulge . |
| 10 | An exhibtion of his work is on at the Midlands Arts Gallery and you can also see his work at the Malvern Festival at the end of May . |
| 11 | This is much better you can almost see your furniture ca n't you ? |
| 12 | However , this size of fretwire should please more of the people more of the time , and you ca n't deny that the fret job is superb ; the ends are so well finished you can almost see your reflection in them . |
| 13 | You can only see its results . |
| 14 | In the operating room you can only see my eyes . |
| 15 | Then she 'll pout her lips and look cross , and you can still see her thinking : ‘ No , I 'm getting nowhere with that . ’ |
| 16 | You get used to it … and you can always see your friends if it gets too much ’ . |
| 17 | You can hardly see your hand in front of your face and er I mean there was no way to fight the fire , so I mean all we could do was sort of stand back and look 'cos we were up There was about At that stage there was twenty or thirty of us standing in this north west corner of the platform . |
| 18 | In small birds it can hardly be rendered except as a blur of wings ; we can sometimes see their wingspread clearly when they threaten each other or quarrel at bird tables . |
| 19 | But then — if we are taking our time and stay to look at the town as a whole , walk around it in the cool and quiet of the evening when the shops are shut , and the traffic has gone home , and we can really see its contours and its bone-structure — other questions begin to arise in the mind , which even the best of guide-books does not answer . |