Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb mod] see [pers pn] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her clothes were different — foreign , and smart — but her hair was red , and although I could see she was n't beautiful I thought she was . |
| 2 | I keep the snapshot you sent me by my bed , but although I can see it is you , you look different — so much older . |
| 3 | I 'm still terrified , even though McDunn 's on my side , because I can see he 's not so hopeful any more and if they take him off this I might get the bad cops , the ones that just want a confession and Christ I 'm in England , not Scotland , and despite the McGuire Seven and the Guildford Four they still have n't changed the law : down here you can still be convicted on an uncorroborated confession even if you try to retract it later . |
| 4 | But when I can see he 's not looking , I do so . |
| 5 | But as far as I can see we are more or less covered . |
| 6 | ‘ I treat you like a child because as far as I can see you are one . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ So far as I can see it 's practically certain Mr Merrivale was in there with her early on in the night , ’ said Ethel . |
| 8 | Actually so far as I can see it 's sod 's law for women , just as it always has been . |
| 9 | True , the attraction of becoming ‘ British ’ is a big one , but as far as I can see it is the only one . |
| 10 | For some reason I could n't , though I could see it was that which infuriated her more than anything . |
| 11 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 12 | He was emerging in stately fashion from Wavebreaker 's companionway and , though I could see he was tall and lanky and had a ponytail of hair , I could make out no details of his face . |