Example sentences of "he [modal v] see [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pride — that 's all he needed , Colonel Windsor recognised : restore his pride and he 'll see sense . |
| 2 | ‘ But in this case I think he 'll see sense . ’ |
| 3 | Even now as he stood there by the kitchen table he could see Caspar closing in on the weaker lamb , and he could hear that weird and terrible wailing of Lee 's . |
| 4 | The tide was turning and he could see debris drifting downstream in the yellow afternoon light towards the River Gate , a mere hundred yards downstream . |
| 5 | He could see Donna on the other side of the barrier heading towards a dark-haired woman , whom she embraced . |
| 6 | He could see part of the canal , part of a garden , barges loaded with potatoes , a rear view of houses being pulled down by workmen , and in the distance rows of trees and street lamps , a complicated little almshouse with its gardens , and finally a grand expanse of roofs . |
| 7 | He could see mischief in her eyes . |
| 8 | Inside he could see Elinor talking , with some animation , to Donald , her long hair falling across her face . |
| 9 | For a human , the task of finding the summit would be easy because he could see north east ; but the robot can only test the gradient along the principal points of the compass , and in all those four directions it slopes down . |
| 10 | He could see Hawkbit running towards him now and two or three of the others — Silver , Dandelion and Pipkin . |
| 11 | Still peering through the binoculars he could see movement on the other boat : two men looking ahead , one of them pointing towards The Abbott . |
| 12 | He felt an urge to reach out and rescue some of the sheets of paper on which he imagined he could see writing , but the heat was extreme . |
| 13 | He could see grass , and a long dug strip — vegetables , too ? — and a few fruit trees . |
| 14 | It was the only way he could see Mijnheer with Danjit 's knife angling his head against the rocks . |
| 15 | He could see sorrow in the dark eyes which glowed as if there were candles burning behind them . |
| 16 | Yet in those eyes he could see fear . |
| 17 | He could see Fiver 's hills plainly now , greenish-grey and seeming close in the rain-laden air . |
| 18 | Surely he would see sense , she thought , surely ! |
| 19 | Everywhere the novice looks he will see pollution . |
| 20 | He can see profit where others are at a loss to see anything . |
| 21 | Cos what he does , he puts a tea bag in a cup pours about that much water on takes the tea bag out and tops it right up with water so he can see bottom of cup . |
| 22 | He can see car headlights a few hundred feet below . |