Example sentences of "i [modal v] [adv] see [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps I may now see Mrs Thorne ? ’ she asked , and Alida was forced to rise . |
| 2 | ‘ I might actually see Edward ? ’ |
| 3 | I could even see Conchis , who was sitting where we had sat on the terrace the night before , apparently reading . |
| 4 | There was a figure on either side of him but I could only see Charlie Vaughan . |
| 5 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 6 | I could now see Malc on the front row quite clearly . |
| 7 | You see — I could never see Bridget home when we went out . ’ |
| 8 | I think I 'd sooner see Angela Rippon , Those Were The Days , do n't you ? , on Sky |
| 9 | ‘ I would rather see Philip play the piano than workingmen 's clubs but he has set his heart on being a magician and we are supporting him , ’ said his mother Stella . |
| 10 | The visitor left , forgetting to take her sewing machine , and I left with her , knowing full well that I would never see Aisha again and that news of my forcing the lock on her cupboard would reach my family and the whole village well amplified , so that I 'd end up accused of stealing all of Aisha 's possessions . |
| 11 | ‘ I shall never see Grainne . ’ |
| 12 | Perhaps I will never see England again . |
| 13 | From my crevice between the two machines I can just see Pa 's face . |
| 14 | I can just see David doing it |
| 15 | I can really see Cadfael rattling round in his black cloak , taking a short cut on his errands round the town . |