Example sentences of "could see [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wished him goodbye , thanked him for coming and could see again the face of his wife on the only occasion she had met her : tight-lipped , unable to approve , fiercely loyal to John . |
| 2 | He could see the money in the paintings and he could see also the alarm wires leading to them . |
| 3 | Worse , I could see clearly the image of Mala clinging to him within the circle of the powerful golden arm . |
| 4 | Before the light faded altogether Allen climbed in the oak but could see neither the Ridgery nor the column of smoke for which they were making . |
| 5 | Allen climbed a tree but although he climbed to a high bough and hung there swaying like a squirrel they were in a low-lying bowl of forest and he could see neither the Smoke nor the last rays of the westering sun but only leaves . |
| 6 | At first it was behind Claypole Ridge , and I could see only the top of it , the smallest smudge . |
| 7 | Two wooden fences , two wire fences , and all lit as day , all covered by the watch-towers standing in each corner of the compound , and over the highest of the wooden fences he could see only the roof of the prison . |
| 8 | Before another reading of this poem on the same visit , he announced that it began where he had begun , and that it ended where he and his wife hoped to end — in the parish church of a Somerset village ; he could see now the pattern of his life completed . |