Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] could see [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We won for a third time at Zandvoort , the first grand prix of the season : apart from the prize money , that moved us up a scale on the start money and suddenly I could see our way through the rest of the season . |
| 2 | If only I could see him before next week . |
| 3 | If only I could see you – just once ? all our drams , Vincent , where are they ? |
| 4 | ‘ If only I could see it as a tourist one day , ’ she said wistfully . |
| 5 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |
| 6 | Only she could see him , a gash of red streaking over the pasture . |
| 7 | If only she could see what an act it was , how scared Lucy was now feeling deep inside . |
| 8 | But still we kept saying if only we could see ourselves on the video , that would help us . |
| 9 | If only they could see me in the office now I 'd turn more than a few heads . |
| 10 | I often think er and then of course you see if , if they er the airmen , their wives used to try and get er digs near where the aerodromes were so they could see their menfolk . |
| 11 | At night , when he was getting ready for bed , he would switch on his bedside lamp and stand with his back to it so he could see his shadow against the far wall . |
| 12 | He watched Geraci walk all the way down the corridor before going back to his office , leaving the connecting door open so that if anyone came in he could see them reflected on Pertini 's portrait . |
| 13 | He watched Geraci walk all the way down the corridor before going back to his office , leaving the connecting door open so that if anyone came in he could see them reflected in Pertinis portrait . |
| 14 | He did that sometimes on his own up in Jubilee Wood but never so anyone could see him . |
| 15 | Even from fifty yards away I could see her pained expression . |
| 16 | Already I could see myself standing there , tongue-tied and grinning sheepishly , the star of a bedroom farce which had gone badly off the rails . |
| 17 | Already she could see their faces , the faces of the fucking bloody middle class , when the subject of money was on the agenda . |
| 18 | Still I could see nothing but then I glimpsed the light of a torch . |
| 19 | By the time the train moved off she could see nothing at all out of the window , she could scarcely see the window , so many people were squeezed between her and it . |
| 20 | When I looked carefully I could see lots of orange fragments scattered over the sodden grass and glistening brown earth of the field . |
| 21 | But a minute later I could see what was going to happen and I began thinking every which way of how to change the subject . |
| 22 | erm To what extent do you rely on measurements , as it were , and to what erm extent do you rely on actual observations , because it seems to me that there 's a , at least a possibility that you may have a whole sort of set of measurements that may indicate something 's going to happen , but if you actually stuck your head out of the window and looked up you could see it was actually raining instead of sunny ? |
| 23 | James Riley , 14 , said : ‘ Then one of us said ‘ No , it 's a baby ’ and as we got nearer we could see it was a little boy . |
| 24 | As they got nearer they could see it was some-one , head and shoulders clearly visible . |
| 25 | I was still carrying the child , but now I could see you riding away into the distance . |
| 26 | She had spotted the cigarette smoke from afar and now she could see his feet protruding from under the canvas . |
| 27 | She had been resting against his trunk and now he could see what had happened to it . |
| 28 | Well I could see him all the time see . |
| 29 | Even I could see it was rusting away . |
| 30 | Even I could see he is not a good player . |