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Example sentences of "can see " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I hope you will take note of the wishes of your constituents and do all you can to see that Garstang retains its Magistrates ' Court .
2	My friends are very anxious that there should be no difference between their people and the Mamur Zapt , and will do all they can to see that things go no further , at least for the time being .
3	Holland , can to see , look to me as if there were plenty of it when I was there .
4	‘ There is nothing I can do , ’ said the King , as she was dragged away , ‘ I can see those in charge , but it 's now in the hands of the Justice people . ’
5	Read Ubu , and you can see the connections with Samuel Beckett 's Waiting for Godot , and Ionesco 's The Chairs and The Bald Prima Donna .
6	But , yes — I read plays and I can see actors in the parts — I hope I can see what is suitable to their personalities .
7	But , yes — I read plays and I can see actors in the parts — I hope I can see what is suitable to their personalities .
8	I can see him from the kitchen window you see .
9	I can see just where it will go , she said .
10	‘ The marketing manager can learn how to take advantage of the growing database and the finance manager can see how to use the special accounting systems . ’
11	‘ Well , you can see the colour of him , ’ Dr Padgett muttered to Constable Perkins .
12	‘ She has n't got any extensions as far as I can see , ’ I said .
13	‘ So far as I can see it 's practically certain Mr Merrivale was in there with her early on in the night , ’ said Ethel .
14	‘ As far as I can see only Mr Merrivale is in the clear ’ , went on Mary .
15	I can see that I may have a little difficulty explaining this first part of my story , especially to anyone not acquainted with the often bizarre rituals of academic life .
16	I 'm glad you can see that , Dorothy .
17	I do n't know how to approach this , but this is me , Sarah , your pathetically vile big sister , not able to find the words , but hoping you can see what I 'm trying to do — what I 'm trying to say — and please , please believe me when I say that I 'm not trying to run away from what I 've done , but if I could change somehow — obliterate — one thing I 've done in my life , one truly awful thing that I have done , it would be this .
18	I can see this in my own case , where losing a job or a home has in certain instances reopened old wounds .
19	You can see him on BBC1 's Garden Party , Mondays 12pm .
20	Keep well away so that you can see slopes properly and , when possible , view the field from at least two sides .
21	On this high hill , the wind whips your face chill ; the wind drops and your cheeks are burning ; you can see the patchwork of seven counties sweeping and dissolving to misty far green at your feet , rising again to heather-blue mountains melting to pure white cloud .
22	‘ I can see that , ’ said Dionne .
23	However , we can see a difference when we compare the two extreme forms .
24	So I can see if it looks okay .
25	Even I can see that he should have been implacable . ’
26	‘ As you can see , now that we have stopped exposing ourselves to Tramen-exhalation we have developed heads and can talk to each other for the first time .
27	‘ No reason I can see not to try the goulash . ’
28	It is impossible to deny that V has a different mode of access to the external world from BS , for V can see and BS can not .
29	As far as I can see , the only way to do this is to adopt a behaviouristic approach to this knowledge and characterize it as an ability to discriminate visual objects .
30	If , as I have argued , thought and consciousness irreducibly escape the net of physicalist interpretation , and if , as I have suggested , the external world must possess the mind-like property of generality if it is to be conceivable , then we can see that Socrates ' assertion in the Phaedo , that the world must be explained by reference to mind , was essentially correct .