Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [modal v] see it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I do n't know it the way you two do the work it looks so fine that I did n't think I could see it properly . |
| 2 | Well she thoroughly enjoyed the life , in fact right up , oh till nearly the end she spoke about Pharay and as long as she was able she used to go and she imagined she could see it better with the spy glasses . |
| 3 | Then I finally realised you could see it , but you 'd decided simply to ignore it . |
| 4 | and when we and when we were dredging that up , that used to be all like er er trunks of trees and you could , I mean you could see it when they come up it was very light . |
| 5 | I mean you 'd see it going round the town quite regularly emptying the gullies . |
| 6 | I mean you must see it yourself . |
| 7 | Look you can see it 's all brown . |
| 8 | If you know where to look you 'll see it |
| 9 | All right we 'll see we 'll see it 's not got to fit in with anything else has it ? |
| 10 | I do n't think we shall see it . |
| 11 | But erm unless he alters his way you know I can see it coming off . |
| 12 | unless it 's the but er if you 've forgot it back good reason for handing it over so yeah I mean I , I think that well I 've given you the , the , the strength if you like we can see it , perhaps a little bit more open questioning would n't go amiss would it ? |
| 13 | Indeed , this very struggle that I find so fascinating in the writing of Paradise Lost , you know , a rather intimate way I feel I can see it in eleven words that come just a little earlier in the fourth book , in which he tells us ‘ Seeing the apples growing on the trees , that they are hisperian fables true , if true here only and of delicious taste ’ . |
| 14 | whatever they were using as bait presumably some mackerel or something like that but , but as I was saying you could see it trailing through and then all , suddenly out of like nowhere this fish would come and like chase after it |
| 15 | Reluctantly she decided she must see it through , for Peter , and in some way for herself — she had to prove to herself that she could come face to face with Marc again and survive the ordeal . |
| 16 | ‘ Martha told me about this place , but I never thought I 'd see it , ’ he said . |
| 17 | I 've seen similar situations on company planets run by the Usurians , but I never thought I 'd see it on Earth . ’ |
| 18 | Another door , Harry had said , down by the river 's edge : and in fact , when I looked I could see it , a once-painted slab of wood set in brickwork , its bottom edge barely six inches above the water . |
| 19 | ‘ I knew you 'd see it , me boy , ’ his father smiled , putting an arm round his eldest 's shoulder . |
| 20 | ‘ I knew you 'd see it my way . ’ |
| 21 | But I thought you ought to see it . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Good , I thought you 'd see it my way . |
| 23 | For a moment , she thought she could see it : fragile silver filaments of enchantment , gentle brittle frost-webs of something that was not quite light , but not quite solid , but somehow composed of both . |
| 24 | I never thought we could see it like this . ’ |
| 25 | She would have told Jacob about her new purpose , but she knew he would see it as another sign of her raving , a sign of some new imbalance , and would try to search for causes , try to talk her out of it . |
| 26 | I could n't really tell what it was till she told me , but when she did I could see it . |
| 27 | If anything moves you can see it coming . ’ |
| 28 | you can drive you can see it anyway |
| 29 | I , I mean it may not be right , but it , I mean as I think you can see it has a kind of logic about it , erm and , and i it may be that it , it 's not the right explanation , but the very fact that erm we 're suggesting it , I think shows that erm again it 's naive to think that motherhood is a kind of er is a one-sided affair where you know mothers sacrifice themselves er for their offspring , because nature demands it . |
| 30 | And and I think we might see it in one of two ways . |