Example sentences of "i can [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind you , all these youngsters ca n't but you ca n't see , you know normally when I stand at bar I can normally see the door but I ca n't see it . |
| 2 | I am sympathetic to your case that this policy should be extended to unpowered craft on all rivers although I can also see some problems . |
| 3 | I can see something of the sort as I look over my own published attempts to describe and account for the peaceful way of life followed by the Semai , and I think I can also see some of the reasons for it . |
| 4 | I believe I can also see the girl who will be your lead dancer at some time ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ And I can also see why you 're regarded as a holy terror in the commodity-broking world . ’ |
| 6 | I can also see another one just around the corner . ’ |
| 7 | Yeah , I can also see Well I did n't lose a pile of them . |
| 8 | I can just see him , waiting on the rank . ’ |
| 9 | Marie turns to look at me , and I can just see the light shining off her eyes . |
| 10 | It 's up the side of the platform — I can just see the light over the door from where I 'm standing . |
| 11 | ‘ I can just see him looking down that long nose of his and saying in that sanctimonious voice : ‘ there 's something you ought to know , Mr O'Shea … ’ |
| 12 | I can just see the headlines — RUMMIDGE FIRM SLAMS DOOR ON RED ROBYN . |
| 13 | With a grandmother , it might be an odd domestic habit that is remembered — ‘ you know she used to polish her table legs and brass — and she used to cover 'em up after ’ — or simply her appearance : ‘ I can just see her with her white apron on , and cap ; ’ or ‘ she had a beautiful sequin coat , cape and a little sequin bonnet ; ’ or again , of a duchess , ‘ I can remember a tall gaunt woman in black — rather frightened of her . ’ |
| 14 | ( Crying in justified woundedness ) Oh I can just see you lyin' there five year aul' in yer bed recess with your sixteen brothers and sisters eating snotters and planning to trap our Deirdre , tie her down by fair means or foul . |
| 15 | I can just see them : Mum with a cottage cheese salad lying uneaten on her plate — Dad in the office amid piles of unread scripts , unable to concentrate for fear that his darling ? hated ? infuriating daughter lies at the bottom of the Thames , the Severn , the Atlantic … |
| 16 | I can just see you floating into your box at the Opera , all svelte and soignée … ’ |
| 17 | I can just see the Waste , or rather I think it must be the Waste , for there 's a tower there and it 's bare of trees . |
| 18 | ‘ If I can just see the baby . ’ |
| 19 | I can just see a little haddock at home , receiving a phone call saying he 's won a prize . |
| 20 | But I can just see the Sun headline , a fitting follow up to ‘ Paddy Pants-down ’ , to wit : ‘ Is Neil A Nancy Boyo ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I can just see that Kim Bassinger falling for you , ’ I told him . |
| 22 | ‘ I can just see you in Holloway , Marge . |
| 23 | Under ideal conditions I can just see the components separately with 20 × 70 binoculars , but I am not confident that I can do so with any lower magnification . |
| 24 | It is rather faint ; I can just see it with × 12 and easily with × 20 , but I have never been able to detect it with × 7 . |
| 25 | I always find it a difficult binocular object ; I can just see it with × 20 , but I am not confident that I can identify it with a lower magnification . |
| 26 | I can just see both components with × 20 , but there is nothing remarkable about them . |
| 27 | From my crevice between the two machines I can just see Pa 's face . |
| 28 | I can just see his eyes . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ I can just see her dripping with tears of anxiety . ’ |