Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [adv] see the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind you , all these youngsters ca n't but you ca n't see , you know normally when I stand at bar I can normally see the door but I ca n't see it . |
| 2 | I believe I can also see the girl who will be your lead dancer at some time ? ’ |
| 3 | But I can just see the Sun headline , a fitting follow up to ‘ Paddy Pants-down ’ , to wit : ‘ Is Neil A Nancy Boyo ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ If I can just see the baby . ’ |
| 5 | I can just see the Waste , or rather I think it must be the Waste , for there 's a tower there and it 's bare of trees . |
| 6 | Marie turns to look at me , and I can just see the light shining off her eyes . |
| 7 | It 's up the side of the platform — I can just see the light over the door from where I 'm standing . |
| 8 | Now I can exactly see the shape and size , the perfect fit , of the loneliness that is approaching . |
| 9 | The damn window 's wide open across there and I can only see the gramophone . |
| 10 | Mind , I stayed at the house and did n't have to go to the graveside , but I can still see the procession of people . |
| 11 | ( I can still see the Lorimer drive blasting into the back of the net with Bremner barely off-side and no-where near interfering with play . ) |
| 12 | but it was terrible I was screaming , I was terrified and , and , and I can still see the place you know , there 's something very foreboding about the , the place and the chair was like a |
| 13 | I can still see the blood starting from the man 's nose , the way his arms reached out as his feet rocked back on to nothing , and still hear the dreadful high-pitched rabbit cry as his body disappeared over the edge . |
| 14 | Whilst I can readily see the subversion in a band like the Sex Pistols ( whom Ambrose signed to EMI Publishing ) , what about Sigue Sigue Sputnik ? |
| 15 | She can almost see the sickness there , like a worm in a nut . |
| 16 | You can easily see the effect by placing a telephone book under each of the rear legs of a ordinary kitchen chair . |
| 17 | Using a hand-lens , you can easily see the difference between the wild-type , with its black compound eyes , and the pearl eye beetles with their white eyes ringed with black . |
| 18 | You can already see the backlash against all this ‘ right-onness ’ . ’ |
| 19 | You can also see the effect more clearly , so some fishkeepers prefer to position plastic plants underwater too , |
| 20 | But y I think you can also see the appeal of this to Freud in that time because in the early years Freud 's model of the mind , which is really what we 're talking about today , was erm a kind of hydraulic one . |
| 21 | ‘ You can just see the sea from the nursery , ’ explains Prue , ‘ and if you stand on the loo and look out of that little window you can see all those cloverleaf intersections you drove over on the way in . |
| 22 | The racecourse at the back , fencing , platform here , wooden structure here , buildings erm and er you can just see the edge of er another canopy similar to that er on this side . |
| 23 | If you look closely at L'Escargot by Matisse in the Tate Gallery you can just see the pencil marks round the collage pieces . |
| 24 | You can just see the kiosk , look , right along there . ’ |
| 25 | And you can just see some of the er you can just see the timberwork on the in the roofing . |
| 26 | ‘ You can even see the airport . |
| 27 | A train will take you to Corrour halt , where a Youth Hostel can be found , leaving you with miles to walk up Loch Ossian before you can even see the ridge . |
| 28 | You can even see the gesso oozing through the canvas weave in the reverse . |
| 29 | You can almost see the word ‘ this ’ underlined and highlighted with disgust — ‘ is this the reason for mankind and the millions of years of evolution necessary to produce it ? ’ , says the soldier . |
| 30 | ‘ Pretty things , ’ wrote Sawyer and Darton of illustrated books in general , ‘ pleasant to fondle , more ready to display to a bibliophile those tiny points of an exquisite technique over which it is legitimate to gloat … the spot of ink adjusted on a Corinthian 's cheek to a thousandth of an inch , or a black line so thin and firm that you can almost see the metal caressing it on to the honest untimbered white paper . ’ |