Example sentences of "could see her " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the front door he could see her walking along the road past the graveyard with three of her friends , their heavy skirts swinging . |
| 2 | I could see her English neighbour shutting her front door in our faces , and yet all the same we left the two children there , rushing away after I 'd pinched their cheeks to make them cry so that she 'd have to come out to them . |
| 3 | I could see her face very clearly in the wisp of cloud that was now making its way across the sky . |
| 4 | In the semi-darkness Mark could see her movements . |
| 5 | He could see her lip trembling and hoped she would not cry in public again . |
| 6 | Marie moved forward so that he could see her better . |
| 7 | The staff , too , could see her moves to stroke the dog and finally let me approach her . |
| 8 | From the window , she could see her friend , Florence Ames , filling the freshly-turned beds with rows of small green plants from the boxes by her side . |
| 9 | I could see her thinking , ‘ We ca n't send this one on a book tour . ’ |
| 10 | Andrew Carnegie , millionaire-to-be , believed his ‘ optimistic nature ’ and wit ‘ must have been inherited ’ from his ‘ delightful old masquerading grandfather ; ’ while the future feminist Hannah Mitchell could see her own dogged persistence in the extraordinary working energy of the octogenarian grandmother who was ‘ the delight and terror of my young days ’ |
| 11 | Behind this graceful form Martha could see her grandmother in a state of strange tension , arms folded and brows contracted in the effort of masking her feelings . |
| 12 | I want you to note that I am not singing just ‘ Take my back , because it is my best feature ’ ( in the mirror we could see her beautiful strong back in the low cut of the dress , and of course we could see ourselves too ) . |
| 13 | This afternoon — I arrived in Salisbury at around three thirty — when I entered my address in her register as ‘ Darlington Hall ’ , I could see her look at me with some trepidation , assuming no doubt that I was some gentleman used to such places as the Ritz or the Dorchester and that I would storm out of her guest house on being shown my room . |
| 14 | Miss Fogerty noted the clean duster folded neatly in the very centre of Miss Watson 's desk , the tidy rows of tables and chairs awaiting their occupants , and the large reproduction of Holman Hunt 's ‘ The Light of the World ’ , in whose dusky glass Miss Fogerty could see her own figure reflected . |
| 15 | ‘ You see , Inspector , you have to die because — ’ ‘ Elinor , ’ he could see her white anxious face now , ‘ you have to let me strangle you . |
| 16 | It was this latter statement that had got Agnes back into the house , because she could see her sister , in her present state devoid of any common sense , doing something drastic . |
| 17 | He could see her face in the mirror . |
| 18 | I could see her face now , Mum 's face , eyeshadow and lipstick perfect as always , struggling there in the thick slimy mud — gasping , sinking … |
| 19 | She tried to slip free , but he moved round so that he could see her face more clearly . |
| 20 | She was lifting her skirt as she hurried to him , and he could see her ankles . |
| 21 | Kelly could see her clothes in the corner across the room , but she needed to get to them without being jumped by this barrel of lard . |
| 22 | He could see her breasts tilting against the black silk . |
| 23 | Benny could see her mother sitting there stretching her hand out full of what she had been full of for months now : the huge advantages of being able to come home every night by bus . |
| 24 | Out of the corner of his eye , Hank could see her stricken face . |
| 25 | She liked to be outside , liked to watch the day waxing or waning , liked to be where she could see her household moving about . |
| 26 | You could see her whole body shaking and I remembered Clement Moore 's The Night Before Christmas ; ‘ a right jolly old elf … with a little round belly that shook when he laughed like a bowlful of jelly . ’ |
| 27 | She wished she could see her better . |
| 28 | She could see her mother and younger brother John watching TV . |
| 29 | Two of the cuts on her cheek were so deep that doctors could see her bone . |
| 30 | Two of the cuts on her cheek were so deep that doctors could see her bone . |