Example sentences of "[pron] could see [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Changez looked so alone — and close up I could see bits of bristle sticking out of his badly shaved face — that even I could n't laugh at him in my usual way . |
| 2 | I could see interviewers thinking that , frankly , this evidence did n't add up to much . |
| 3 | From the thicket I could see the bridge and to my amazement I could see Commandos marching in file across the bridge and coming slowly towards me , a few of them looking and pointing in my direction . |
| 4 | ‘ When the tram passed Springfield Park , you know , by Alder Hey Hospital , I could see trenches dug all over the park . |
| 5 | Looking out over the crowd , I could see members of rival gangs . |
| 6 | Below my blindfold I could see tiles and a toilet set in them . |
| 7 | The darkness intensified down in the wood though I could see stars between the boughs . |
| 8 | About a hundred yards along the path I could see guns that were dug in fairly close together . |
| 9 | Patrick Chauvel and I could see things were about to happen in Panama , Noriega had declared war on America , but it was Xmas and only a few of us went there . |
| 10 | It may surprise you to know that I could see things from your point of view there . |
| 11 | I stood frozen to the spot unable to do anything ; I could see soldiers diving for cover ; the Frenchman who was coming towards me with a smile on his bearded face was now lying on the ground . |
| 12 | In the haze I could see figures lying on mattresses on the floor . |
| 13 | His cloak hung down like a curtain , and I could see streetlamps through the bullet holes in it . |
| 14 | As we did , I could see combines in some of the fields . |
| 15 | ‘ People ask why I do n't tour round seeing the sights , but I could see sights in Australia and be warm . |
| 16 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 17 | Her brief confusion at his sudden rejection of her had evaporated ; now she could see things very clearly indeed , and the hot flush of embarrassment washed over her . |
| 18 | But when she looked at the sides of the hole , she could see cupboards and books and pictures on the walls . |
| 19 | He was n't letting her in , she could see racks of magazines behind and a dark wooden counter , bare . |
| 20 | She could see lights on inside and men moving about , and as she stood there a policeman in uniform came out of the front door . |
| 21 | Seated beside Miss Jarman on the faded red-leather seat , she could see houses and shops and people passing the window , and a certain pleasure added to her nervous apprehension . |
| 22 | She could see houses and a church . |
| 23 | At other windows she could see tables with folded paper napkins and nickel plated cruets . |
| 24 | He was lying on his back with the sheet round his waist , one arm flung up over his head , and she could see bruises all down the underside of his arm and down his ribs . |
| 25 | He glanced across the shore again , and even in the dark she could see lines deepen round his mouth . |
| 26 | Now she could see shapes beneath the water ; now there were three , no here came another one — four — silvery fish dancing in mid-air on her line . |
| 27 | She was happy to be near a door into the street , where she could see passers-by and know that other lives went on in their placid courses . |
| 28 | She could see twigs scattered along the lane for as far as the car 's headlights reached . |
| 29 | The parks and main avenue were awash with trees in full blossom , and when she looked back up towards the farm she could see patches of cloudy pink where the apple trees were in bloom . |
| 30 | She could see waterfalls cascading down some of the mountain-sides and in the distance a lake . |