Example sentences of "could have seen " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise you could have seen the garden , although there 's not much to look at at this time of the year . ’ |
| 2 | Here he could have seen out the war , but he , and Reg Wallace , another RAF evader , ‘ escaped ’ into France and joined the Maquis . |
| 3 | Before the surrounding land was built over in the last century and subsequently , you could have seen it from miles away in every direction . |
| 4 | Of course I believed her when she said it would , but I wish you could have seen those first two lepidopteral visitors . |
| 5 | It had to be lifted off the track each night to prevent possible vandalism which could have seen it trundling down to Staveley on the falling grade ! |
| 6 | The man stopped the car for the fifth and last time , and there , right outside where Boy lived , they kissed , passionately , scandalously , because by now people were up and there was traffic passing , the first buses and freight lorries on the Commercial Road ; people could have seen them . |
| 7 | I wondered what Stewart Wilson , the Oxford don who had suggested it , would have said if he could have seen me . |
| 8 | One recorded of its first drill , ‘ if only the Kaiser could have seen it it would have made his Imperial Hunship feel frightfully sick ’ . |
| 9 | The result stood because the referee , after consulting his linesmen , decided that Scott could have seen the ball coming at him . |
| 10 | The next section between Culver Street and Gigant Street and Guilder Lane and Pennyfarthing Street could have seen little change over a long period . |
| 11 | Once I could have seen them off by asserting that I had no interest in such things , preferring to live from one day to the next , unfettered by possessions and responsibilities . |
| 12 | The official story had always been that Greg was simply a close family friend , but a child could have seen through the pretence and she had not been a child for a very long time , perhaps not since that long-ago night when she was four years old and had stood , unseen , outside a bedroom door … |
| 13 | But who could have seen her in the park and reported back this quickly ? |
| 14 | That the kakar had seen the tigress was quite evident , and the only place where she could have seen her was on the track . |
| 15 | If he 'd been on the train and had walked with the other racegoers towards the station , Filmer could have seen him through the window … and just the sight of him had caused the tensing of the neck muscles … and if Filmer had n't yet paid him for whatever … then he would come back to the train … |
| 16 | There she could have seen what dreadful things happen in families . |
| 17 | Whoever was inside could have seen him from the windows . |
| 18 | Yes , you could have seen the 1916 Russian epic , King Vidor 's 1955 version with Henry Fonda and Audrey Hepburn , Granada TV 's 1963 Emmy winner , Sergei Bondartchuk 's seven hour effort of 1964 , and in 1972 Rupert Davies and Anthony Hopkins in the BBC version . |
| 19 | WEATHER-beaten Constantinos Kaloude has one of those lived-in faces that could have seen the sun set on 30,000 different horizons . |
| 20 | ‘ Strangeways , here we come ! ’ quipped Morrissey every day to his workmates — probably — quoting , of course , the famous line uttered by Barry Grant in Brookside five years later , which Morrissey could have seen if he videoed that episode while The Smiths were on tour . |
| 21 | Also in 1908 audiences could have seen Unemployed and Unemployable in which the central character begins by haranguing a crowd ; he is dragged off by his wife and given a whole range of domestic tasks all of which he makes a mess of ; he accidentally acquires stolen goods and is arrested ; the film ends with this ‘ lounger ’ working at last but in the cells . |
| 22 | A child could have seen over them : rows of small children were in fact busy looking over them as she stood there , and looking moreover without disguise at her . |
| 23 | By 1970 , thoughtful observers could have seen the emergence of large numbers of affluent and educated young adults in Europe and the United States . |
| 24 | Who could have seen through such thick-headed nonsense ? |
| 25 | If I could have seen a respectable way to dismiss this appeal I should have been happy to do so . |
| 26 | If only she could have seen me skulking around at Cliff Top , the very picture of melancholy . |
| 27 | ‘ You should have waited till the morning , then we could have seen her together . |
| 28 | I only wish Daddy could have seen me in the black lace dress . |
| 29 | If only he could have seen Anne today … ( breaks off ) . |
| 30 | I have been here over a week now , and I miss you very much , and I miss the fresh air and the fresh faces of all those people I so hated on the Tube and the fresh things that happened every hour of every day if only I could have seen them — their freshness , I mean . |