Example sentences of "and [pron] [modal v] [adv] see [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had to get rid of a leader before they could bring themselves to admit that the poll tax was a mistake and I ca n't see John Major going before he loses the next election . |
| 2 | That would certainly cost money , and I ca n't see Father spending any on you in that way . |
| 3 | ‘ And I ca n't see 11-year-olds here burning round estuaries with a bloody great bowsprit and an asymmetric spinnaker . ’ |
| 4 | Ted and I will never see eye to eye about his clients , whom he likes , respects and positively enjoys dragging over hills to bag stags , whereas I loathe these numbskulls who think killing is ‘ sport ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | My wife and I could never see eye to eye on the business of living . |
| 7 | ‘ Nothing has changed since the revolution and I can only see things getting worse and worse . |
| 8 | They sleep during the day , and you will sometimes see flocks of little birds mobbing a sleeping owl in broad daylight . |
| 9 | One occupation which requires people to work a few days now and then is market research , and you will usually see advertisements for this work in local papers . |
| 10 | Leonora watched the grey smudge of shoreline growing closer , knowing that once she was there this part of her life would be over , and she might never see Penry Vaughan again . |
| 11 | Alice loitered around for a while , and no one came in or out , and she could not see Comrade Andrew through the downstairs windows , for the curtains were drawn . |
| 12 | Darkness whirled round her , and she could hardly see Fand any more ; only the spear-tip burned , like a dim flame . |
| 13 | Mr Bale would come back in two or three weeks and she need never see Nick Frazer again . |
| 14 | We ca n't really complain of being immediately affected by all the building , and we can still see Oban Bay and the ferries coming and going ( at a distance , it 's true ) , but it 's a bit of a shock to find a major extension to Oban on our doorstep , more or less . |
| 15 | The Prior would eventually have to obey his superiors , no matter what his private thoughts on the matter , and he could n't see de Tracy going against the majority of England 's nobility . |