Example sentences of "could [adv] see [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had to stand in the pissing down rain , with the cockney scum , and whats more I could only see one goal , and not even the goal that we scored in . |
| 2 | He could only see one man at the back of the plane , refuelling it . |
| 3 | He could only see one ear , some damp hair . |
| 4 | But she could only see little Gabriels , wearing small red anoraks and sporting hair that stood on end no matter how she tried to brush it down . |
| 5 | You could already see those vipers sorting out the Ambre Solaire . |
| 6 | BELFAST could soon see annual profits of over £1m go up in smoke and become a dumping ground for waste from all over Europe , it was warned today . |
| 7 | When she was at the premiere of The Delinquents she was wearing this designer dress and it was black and cut up one side , so that you could just see one leg ; it looked awful , Some people only wear things because they have a designer label . |
| 8 | And as a background she could still see those policemen going in and out of the house in Mouncy Street the day she had seen John Coffin sitting outside . |
| 9 | There had been a storm the previous day and she could still see white horses in the bay from where she was sitting by a south-facing window . |
| 10 | And always in my attic , in our bedroom , as kids , you could always see dried dock leaves and dried stinking nanny , for poultices , for abscesses and boils . |
| 11 | Central defenders Flowers and Partner could also see some action this evening . |
| 12 | Through the oculus Lexandro could now see crenellated parapets overhanging space , stained-glass galleries , battle banners springing from the tips of spires stiffly in the void , and the bristling snouts of defence lasers . |
| 13 | With the resurgence in the popularity of cider we could well see increased competition between the Big Three : Bulmers , Showerings and Taunton , the last named now under its new management buy-out ownership . |
| 14 | Sometimes they also carried stars because , at night , after one of the cloud towers had gone up , the nomes could sometimes see new stars moving across the sky . |
| 15 | I could barely see ten yards because of the glare , and it was no use trying to look far ahead . |
| 16 | But although he could see areas of hewn stonework that seemed to close him in , and although he could certainly see barred windows through which light streamed , there were no gaolers , and there were no other prisoners . |
| 17 | Sometimes I thought they could actually see these people , as they talked . |