Example sentences of "could see his " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had spotted the cigarette smoke from afar and now she could see his feet protruding from under the canvas . |
| 2 | In the heart of the vast city , Daddy again , his brown eyes bright , you could see his sparse hair growing down by the minute into the Hippie pigtail he 'd been too young or too old and always too respectable to wear … |
| 3 | You could see his brain working I must be able to do something about this , he was thinking , but there was no rule against hair colour , only length . |
| 4 | Madeleine said she did n't mind , but you could see his lordship was going down like a dose of castor oil . |
| 5 | The musicians on one side and the great love of his life on the other and I could see his conflict , but it was my nightmare . |
| 6 | And he could see his Mum and Dad outside the house talking to Jack . |
| 7 | Looking through the metal bars , hypnotized by the revolving wheel , he could see his own body , broken arms and legs flopping grotesquely , bouncing from girder to girder on its way down . |
| 8 | She could see his old confidence flooding back as he began to realize that everything was working out very conveniently … . |
| 9 | They could see his legs , kicking . |
| 10 | Emily could see his puzzlement . |
| 11 | Jos could see his dilemma . |
| 12 | He could see his reflection , turned gaunt and ashen , in the fragment of mirror propped against the lavatory window . |
| 13 | She could see his brain struggling to find an escape route and that he should want one hurt and shocked her . |
| 14 | I could see his lips moving . |
| 15 | She could see his face quite clearly , as it was lit by the gas street lamp just a few feet behind him . |
| 16 | Slowly Lachlan moved to the side , to where he could see his two wives , one on his left , one to his right . |
| 17 | His begging hand was still outstretched but his other hand now fell from his face so that O could see his gasping mouth labouring with the hard , near-fainting breath of extreme grief . |
| 18 | We were in opposite camps , and he could no more appreciate my line of reasoning than I could see his point of view , and finally we parted . |
| 19 | The man might have seen us , Vern and me — he was trying to do a rough count , I could see his lips — but there were some screaming kids trying to push in behind the Germans and he had to go and sort them out . |
| 20 | She could see his mouth moving but the words were strange , alien . |
| 21 | They could see his headlight beam picked out beneath the gas layer , as it swept the area , then lifting up towards them like a searchlight cutting through cloud . |
| 22 | He could see his room — the white walls , the shelf of shells , the ocean in the window — but they could 've belonged to anyone , they meant nothing . |
| 23 | Through the side window he could see his grey garments and underwear hanging on a small washing line outside . |
| 24 | One of the big cabinets , Rufus said , and no nonsense about it , get Evans or Owens back , but Adam could see his house being stripped bare . |
| 25 | However , I could see his logic , which was that not only did it burn about three times as much wood as an enclosed stove but the draught from the chimney sucked up a considerable amount of the underfloor heating , and even though it cost us nothing , it was poor economics . |
| 26 | She wished she could see his face . |
| 27 | Violet said : ‘ You could see his jaw and cheekbone moving as he spoke — the suffering he went through was appalling . ’ |
| 28 | You could see his muscles ripple , for he was dressed only in a lava-lava , the traditional kind of Polynesian loin cloth . |
| 29 | Through a tear in the singlet I could see his rib bones sticking out . |
| 30 | The Museum was virtually put together by one man , the late Alex Massin , who sadly died of cancer before he could see his museum open to the public . |