Example sentences of "[modal v] see be [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He searched her eyes for signs of contempt and loathing , but all he could see was sympathy . |
| 2 | We finished our meal in silence , and when I looked out of the window , all I could see was darkness and snow . |
| 3 | Apart from the desklamp that was shining in my face , all I could see was darkness . |
| 4 | They were on a raised section of the Ring , the road that acted as the circumference of downtown , and all Jed could see was freeway , sky , and rows of swaying grey poles . |
| 5 | As far as the eye could see was desert and the only break in the horizon was the pitiful silhouette of a few mud shelters . |
| 6 | She looked down it : all she could see was blackness . |
| 7 | Now all I could see was spray . |
| 8 | All I could see was Death , beckoning and grinning before me . |
| 9 | All he could see was loss . |
| 10 | And er the car arrives I looked all I could see was mother sitting in the car and puffing this smoke puffing out through the window |
| 11 | ‘ What we will see is segmentation . |
| 12 | But when you 've moved a five-bedroomed house which has got a grand piano in it as well , and you 're about twenty to thirty foot at the back and all you can see is furniture furniture furniture furniture furniture , you can imagine as you go on you 're thinking God will we ever get to this ? |
| 13 | Well it 's the same as our place , a that paper is as far as I can see is jet black underneath ! |