Example sentences of "i can [adv] see [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a grandmother , it might be an odd domestic habit that is remembered — ‘ you know she used to polish her table legs and brass — and she used to cover 'em up after ’ — or simply her appearance : ‘ I can just see her with her white apron on , and cap ; ’ or ‘ she had a beautiful sequin coat , cape and a little sequin bonnet ; ’ or again , of a duchess , ‘ I can remember a tall gaunt woman in black — rather frightened of her . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I can just see her dripping with tears of anxiety . ’ |
| 3 | I can just see them : Mum with a cottage cheese salad lying uneaten on her plate — Dad in the office amid piles of unread scripts , unable to concentrate for fear that his darling ? hated ? infuriating daughter lies at the bottom of the Thames , the Severn , the Atlantic … |
| 4 | ‘ I can just see them , ’ said Garvin , ‘ when I go along . |
| 5 | Yeah I can just see them in the rear mirror . |
| 6 | I can just see him , waiting on the rank . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I can just see him looking down that long nose of his and saying in that sanctimonious voice : ‘ there 's something you ought to know , Mr O'Shea … ’ |
| 8 | I can just see him tonight . |
| 9 | ( Crying in justified woundedness ) Oh I can just see you lyin' there five year aul' in yer bed recess with your sixteen brothers and sisters eating snotters and planning to trap our Deirdre , tie her down by fair means or foul . |
| 10 | I can just see you floating into your box at the Opera , all svelte and soignée … ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I can just see you in Holloway , Marge . |
| 12 | It is rather faint ; I can just see it with × 12 and easily with × 20 , but I have never been able to detect it with × 7 . |
| 13 | I always find it a difficult binocular object ; I can just see it with × 20 , but I am not confident that I can identify it with a lower magnification . |
| 14 | I can not see her but I can summon up her presence . |
| 15 | At first I can not see her for the heaps of people about her bedside , brandished with packaged sweets and magazines and flowers of white and purple . |
| 16 | Flavia went on following her train of thought , ‘ I can not see him doing even a disinterested thing if it went against a rule . ’ |
| 17 | Morris is due a benefit before too long and , despite fears in some Celtic quarters , I can not see him leaving Glamorgan . |
| 18 | If the impassioned pleas are directed at those close to the culprits , I can not see them having much effect . |
| 19 | I lost my friends because I can not see them now and they do n't have the money to come here . ’ |
| 20 | At night I can not see it , and in the morning , it is gone . |
| 21 | But I can not see it solving the crisis of the socialist left . |
| 22 | I can not see it in ‘ Stitchworld ’ although number 177 has a similar sort of line . |
| 23 | Streamline 's method offers such a wide range of activities and tasks that I can not see it having anything other than effective and long-lasting results . ’ |
| 24 | M79 is in the same field with 41 , and against a dark sky there should be no real problem in locating it , though under moonlight conditions I can not see it without a telescope . |
| 25 | One publisher , who did not want to be named , agreed : ‘ Jackie Collins has got a new book out called American Star but I can not see it doing very well . |
| 26 | That would have been rather But I come out here but I can not see you know you can just just get them I seen some in that |
| 27 | I 've got them there I can nae see it . |
| 28 | I can nae see it either . |
| 29 | I can hardly see him , he 's almost invisible . |
| 30 | I can hardly see him killing Gray . |