Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] could see [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The initial police response was good but after a few days I could see they were getting swamped with other cases and I had to do something . |
| 2 | And at dinnertime we used to look through this window and we could see all the lodging houses , and under the beds You could see them in bed . |
| 3 | When she took off the glasses I could see I 'd overstepped . |
| 4 | In the light from the glowing pillars they could see it twist and settle slowly as they disturbed it . |
| 5 | So you were — but as soon as they put you in my arms I could see you were no use to me ! ’ |
| 6 | Errant husbands and their unfaithful wives , bored concubines and their casual lovers , lecherous old men and randy widows , singsong girls and libertine young sons he could see it now , spreading like the leaves and branches of a great tree , until the tree itself rotted and fell . |
| 7 | I did n't know who the guy riding it was , but through my police issue 200 × 6000 macroscopic laser-prism binoculars I could see he was the same guy who had just bopped the doorman in the head . |