Example sentences of "[pron] could [adv] be seen " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the dark I could manoeuvre , hide in the alleys of incomprehension , crouch behind the walls of indifference , know that I existed , and hope because I could n't be seen . |
| 2 | I left Werewolf with a withering look and headed for the edge of the road , cutting back deeper into the trees so I could n't be seen from the farmhouse when I reached the fenced-off field . |
| 3 | This refusal is much more of a " classic " polite refusal : it is not immediate ( being offset instead by laughter , which also marks it as " non-serious " ) and is immediately followed by an excuse ( " I 'm gon na take Natasha over the park " ) , which could also be seen as a bid to be treated as doing something equivalently onerous : looking after a child instead of washing up . |
| 4 | Q My garden is too small for a pond to keep fish which could easily be seen . |
| 5 | Williams showed that it would be much better to concentrate on attacking U-boats which could still be seen on the surface , with a depth-charge setting of 25 feet , and ignore those which had had time to submerge , because of the uncertainty in knowing their exact position . |
| 6 | Large figures , carved into the chalk hillside , such as the Uffington Horse , the Long Man of Wilmington and the Cerne Abbas Giant , are well known , but these figures were something very different : they were enormous earth sculptures which could only be seen properly from the air or on a map . |
| 7 | It would need only fifty feet either way , and she could not be seen . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , Clare lay off the path in a place where the ground dipped , so she could not be seen . |
| 9 | She wanted to get up and walk away , out of the French doors and over the lawn and behind the hedge , away where she could not be seen . |
| 10 | And if Mrs Simmons was registered with him she could well be seen much sooner . |
| 11 | Pressed against the wall so she could n't be seen , Marie edged her way , very quietly , towards the pill-box . |
| 12 | Although she could n't be seen herself , neither could she see the shed or , more importantly , the exact location of the sniper . |
| 13 | ‘ We would bring you where you could not be seen . |
| 14 | Mariana herself could also be seen as asleep because she refuses to wake up to the probability that her lover will not return . |
| 15 | When they arrived at her close he took her inside , along past the stairs to where it was dark and they could n't be seen by the rest of the close . |
| 16 | There was n't too much room , but at least they could n't be seen . |
| 17 | The Builder complained that it was difficult to identify the separate sets of drawings and there were also complaints about the lack of light , while some drawings , like Scott 's principal view , were placed so high that they could not be seen properly . |
| 18 | They could not be seen telling stories : it looked daft . |
| 19 | They played in the dark est part of the street where they could not be seen , but it was not difficult to guess who they were . |
| 20 | Some of these clients can misread political realities , others may perceive that they are ‘ involving clinicians ’ in management whereas they could also be seen to be merely ‘ indoctrinating ’ . |
| 21 | Not only could they see , they could clearly be seen : every speaker could not but be aware of their non-Catholic auditors , and trim his words to cause as little upset as possible . |
| 22 | They could therefore be seen , with some stretch of the imagination , as forerunners of a new army and a new society , more austere , more national and patriotic , even more egalitarian , than any hitherto known . |
| 23 | They could often be seen leaning on farm-yard gates , chewing on straws and marvelling at Noddy 's turn of speed as he roared by in the slipstream of anything from a milk marketing board tanker to a Maserati ! |
| 24 | The famous ceiling , where the wooden angels flew face down through the dusty air above the crowd , was so high it could scarcely be seen in the gloom . |
| 25 | By 1955 it could also be seen that Stalin 's direction of East Europe military policy was not only onerous , but wasteful . |
| 26 | It was placed so it could not be seen by the customer . |
| 27 | Someone had mentioned that the ski-jump was off to the right , but visibility was only 50 yards and it could not be seen . |
| 28 | ‘ Just from the back , Elaine ; it could n't be seen , in any case . ’ |
| 29 | It would have been no use asking him whether he thought there was a unifying purpose in life , whether it could really be chance that an animal so small that it could n't be seen by the naked eye could die millions of years ago in the depths of the sea and be resurrected by science to prove a man innocent or guilty . |
| 30 | And as it could n't be seen from the cockpit there had been nothing to remind her that it was still open . |