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 hardly see him , he 's almost invisible . |
| 15 | I can hardly see him killing Gray . |
| 16 | I said to June I can hardly see I 've got that bad a headache . |
| 17 | I can hardly see it anyway , through the mist of my hurt . |
| 18 | I have to look after two dear little boys , but these days I can only see them growing up to behave so cruelly towards women . |
| 19 | If we wish to progress up the football ladder , I can only see us doing so by winning promotion . |
| 20 | It 's probably why I can actually see it peeping out over the top . |
| 21 | Mm yes well I can actually see you know |
| 22 | Run ! at me but the message is n't getting through , there 's something else in the way , something else pulling me back , back to Andy and back to that frozen river bank ; I hear Andy crying out and I can still see him reaching towards me and he 's about to slip away from me again and I ca n't do anything … but I can , this time I can ; I can do something and I will . |
| 23 | I can still see him sitting there at his desk , me standing in front , yelling at me how lucky I was , how I 'd been given everything , was this all I could do with it . |
| 24 | I can still see her as I first met her , a skinny , energetic schoolgirl with a flower in her shining black hair , who quickly grew into a beautiful woman and whose life became entwined with mine as together we triumphed over disease , over prejudice and even over war . |
| 25 | ‘ I can still see her . |
| 26 | Yeah I can still see you in flaming two year 's time simply because you 're too frightened to say anything to him , to my son . |
| 27 | " I can never see him properly . |
| 28 | I can never see you again . ’ |
| 29 | I can never see it myself . |
| 30 | I remember so clearly the day when the old seaman came to stay — I can almost see him in front of me as I write . |