Example sentences of "he [modal v] see [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He should see things as they are . |
| 2 | I think he could see things that he wanted to do individually , maybe in the same way that Hendrix did . |
| 3 | Lieutenant Gerry Mackenzie reported by telephone — the civilian network remained open long after the Japanese invasion — that he could see lights in the estuary of the Comoro river and a patrol went out for a quick recce . |
| 4 | Behind him , along the road leading down to the town , he could see lights start to glow as home fires were kindled against the cold night . |
| 5 | But although he could see areas of hewn stonework that seemed to close him in , and although he could certainly see barred windows through which light streamed , there were no gaolers , and there were no other prisoners . |
| 6 | From his cell in Gloucester , he could see women walking to and from the Castlemeads car park . |
| 7 | He could see fingers of suspicion approaching nearer every minute . |
| 8 | Above the bare-branched trees on the edge of his vision he could see clouds of smoke . |
| 9 | He could see figures emerging from the lifeboat hatch , but he was too far away to be able to identify faces . |
| 10 | The Rorim was almost subdued this morning , though from the upper storeys of the Manse he could see Hearthwares busy with horses and harnesses in the yard outside their barracks . |
| 11 | While through the spring haze yet further north , he could see hills of green where the city stopped . |
| 12 | He could see cliffs and a distant wash of white . |
| 13 | He could see stars . |
| 14 | He could see connections between things that no one else in the force would even guess at . |
| 15 | He could see men coming away now , too , from where the ships had been put : the first job , and the heaviest he had shared with his father . |
| 16 | In the end facing the harbour steel doors stood open and he could see men at work inside , installing the new machines . |
| 17 | Now that the death looked painful , now that he could see traces of a struggle , he began , in a kind of panic , to say things in his head , he began to talk to the dead man . |
| 18 | Going from window to window , he could see traces of the woman Susan had told him about , but Luke Mallen was a ghost in the place — nothing of him to be found ; except , in all that stillness , a sense of violence . |
| 19 | He could see masses of blurred colour , not much more . |
| 20 | In the uncertain light Rincewind thought he could see rows of enormous teeth , white as bleached beechwood . |
| 21 | From his vantage point he could see vehicles approaching from the north a good way off . |
| 22 | He could see delays and frustrations here . |
| 23 | He would see loads of young people who are trying to learn how to make sense of life , trying to sort out what is right and what is wrong , trying to understand who they are and how to get on with people around them . |
| 24 | Sheep grazed there and sometimes he would see lambs playing far below . |
| 25 | If the Duke looks out from his eastern windows , he will see crowds of flames dancing among the tree trunks , a hundred fires and a dozen folk round every fire . ’ |
| 26 | He can see tracks . |