Example sentences of "could see [adv] [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wished him goodbye , thanked him for coming and could see again the face of his wife on the only occasion she had met her : tight-lipped , unable to approve , fiercely loyal to John . |
| 2 | Worse , I could see clearly the image of Mala clinging to him within the circle of the powerful golden arm . |
| 3 | They were glazed with ribbed glass , you could see quite a lot of them on Chipping Field , still , er and nearly everyone who 's bought their houses have altered the doors , but a lot of people have put these wooden doors in you know |
| 4 | Erm , I think it 's probably inevitable but most of the Republics will become independent , but I think the idea of them becoming independent in their present borders is very worrying indeed cos that , most of the borders are grossly irrational and becoming independent with those borders ethnic conflicts built into it , erm , and I think unless there 's some sort of er negotiations about what border these countries will have before they become inde independent , we could see quite a lot of bloodshed . |
| 5 | At first it was behind Claypole Ridge , and I could see only the top of it , the smallest smudge . |
| 6 | Two wooden fences , two wire fences , and all lit as day , all covered by the watch-towers standing in each corner of the compound , and over the highest of the wooden fences he could see only the roof of the prison . |
| 7 | Before another reading of this poem on the same visit , he announced that it began where he had begun , and that it ended where he and his wife hoped to end — in the parish church of a Somerset village ; he could see now the pattern of his life completed . |