Example sentences of "[conj] i can see [pron] " in BNC.

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1 My medlar will be planted where I can see its pure white blossom in spring and watch its autumn leaves turn crimson .
2 I take them to a certain stage , but I tend to find finishing a painting much more difficult than starting it , so I 'll leave it to one side , maybe for a week or more , where I can see it , and as I pass it suddenly something will click .
3 ‘ All of you get out where I can see you , ’ shouted Hitch .
4 I merely want to keep you where I can see you while I dress more in accordance with entertaining an unexpected caller .
5 ‘ Do you have to sit where I can see you ? ’ he demanded .
6 I keep the snapshot you sent me by my bed , but although I can see it is you , you look different — so much older .
7 Although I can see your frustration re : franky boy
8 I also know how to get the red-tailed buzzard out of a tree at night , so if it flies off I stay by the tree in which it settles until dark , then I go and fetch sticks and a torch so that I can see what I 'm doing .
9 I want to be out on a limb with my back to the water so that I can see what the rest of the world is doing .
10 if you can bear with us on that I can see we 've got some out outdoor fiends who are quite happy to be sitting here without any jackets on but other people doing , doing the opposite .
11 The hills are mine , and the living streams and the wind that breathes in the valley and the tiny white flowers that only I know because only I lie so close to the earth that I can see them move .
12 It 's just that I can see myself listening to the Brahms Quartets rather more often .
13 Then Goiko 's wife begged the master-mason , " At Least leave a small gap , so that I can see my son Jovo when he passes by . "
14 I have the clock , so that I know the time , Schedule+ so that I can see my appointments , and Word for Windows for word processing .
15 You spoke when your face was turned away from me ’ or ‘ I 'll move this vase of flowers so that I can see your face clearly . ’
16 ‘ Yes , now that I can see you better , I can say that you are a decidedly pretty girl , even if the cat has eaten your tongue . ’
17 It is a wide double ; the companion is of magnitude 4.8 , and the separation 41 seconds of arc , so that I can see it with × 20 .
18 ABBERLEY : Would you mind turning your cardiograph around a little so that I can see it ?
19 She gives me time to read the label on the front cover Government Commission Press Department , 1974 — then opens it and slowly turns the pages , so that I can see it is a cuttings book , in which the Commission 's Press Officer has pasted the results of his labours , the stories inspired by all his briefings , handouts and leaks .
20 The board has the same switches on it as I have on the rack , so if Bryan presses the board they light up for me too , so I can see what he 's got on .
21 Outside the cage the photographer 's saying : ‘ When you jump , spread your arms and legs so I can see you . ’
22 ‘ Will you share a drop with me ? ’ he says , waving the bottle so I can see it .
23 They 're fixing one on Monday so I can see it but I 've already talked to other people who 've done it and they 're so popular .
24 I can remember , we used to have like mints in a bowl , lovely mints did n't we and erm potat , and we used to have the mints just in the bowl and I remember boiled potatoes , you remember erm , you know like , when we , when we were coming like and I can see everything now and I can see me little bowl and everything
25 ‘ He 's here in the factory and I can see him . ’
26 ‘ Ron compared getting Ray to Leeds signing Strach three years ago , and I can see what he means , ’ said McAllister .
27 And I can see her teeth … she 's laughing . ’
28 There are three or four operators who 've been here longer than the computer , and I can see they 've really switched off .
29 Used to be two drawers empty , now it 's full of tapes and I can see they take over .
30 I can not face a quarrel and I can see nothing to quarrel about .
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