Example sentences of "i could [adv] see [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could even see Conchis , who was sitting where we had sat on the terrace the night before , apparently reading . |
| 2 | There was a figure on either side of him but I could only see Charlie Vaughan . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I could now see Malc on the front row quite clearly . |
| 5 | You see — I could never see Bridget home when we went out . ’ |
| 6 | My wife and I could never see eye to eye on the business of living . |
| 7 | When I went to Roundhay first I could still see fairies . |