Example sentences of "could [adv] see [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |