Example sentences of "i [vb mod] see it " in BNC.

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1 I wish I may see it ! ’
2 And if I sit here tape runs out I 'll see it and click .
3 If you like to look back at the cathedral office in an hour , I 'll see it 's ready for you .
4 ‘ Ca n't get you a girl , but if you get her into trouble I 'll see it 's all right . ’
5 It 's alright , I 'll see it later on , it 's on again
6 For some reason I could n't , though I could see it was that which infuriated her more than anything .
7 I could see it in his eyes .
8 I could n't really tell what it was till she told me , but when she did I could see it .
9 Another door , Harry had said , down by the river 's edge : and in fact , when I looked I could see it , a once-painted slab of wood set in brickwork , its bottom edge barely six inches above the water .
10 In any case , he made feeble efforts to help me get him to his left foot , and with my almost total support he made the few hops to reach the boat , though I could see it hurt him sorely .
11 I could see it shining .
12 I could see it from where Abu Khadra used to stand at the edge of his fields in Barqa , although few people knew where Barqa was .
13 I could see it sailing over the trouble and landing on the green .
14 You will have heard the phrase ‘ I could see it out of the corner of my eye ’ .
15 I could see it now , like a slow motion film , Mr McNaughton peeling me off Sharon Latimer like peeling chewing gum away from a desktop …
16 There were curtains dangling above my head , and under the frill I could see it was starting to get light .
17 I could see it .
18 She had an anonymous letter last night , and tried to burn it before I could see it .
19 That said , versatility could be the Power Tool 's middle name , and in a serious rock player 's rack or studio I could see it being permanently in use .
20 On Teddy Sheringham : ‘ Mr Sheringham elbowed me in the face and I could see it coming .
21 All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will .
22 As I looked closely , I could see it was a skull .
23 Through binoculars I could tell that it was part of an animal , and I could see it gently moving as it breathed .
24 Even I could see it was rusting away .
25 particularly erm , and one of things that I did find in Gaugin 's painting of Von Gogh was that erm , er , erm , depression really , I , I could see it there and the des desolation very much as if he was looking in on somebody who was in that position er , although at the time I do n't thing Gaugin and , er Von Gogh himself knew it
26 John 's face broke into a grin ; I could see it reflected in the windowpane .
27 I could see it , and others could see it too .
28 Moved by an ancient sentiment as she cradled the dress , so that it lolled in her arms like someone drowned , she said that she was glad she had a daughter to wear it ; and I said , politely , that I could see it must be a pleasing economy .
29 I looked in the mirror today and I could see it in my eyes .
30 I could see it running in her until it overflowed , and as fast as it ran more grief took its place until the lane and the streams ran with grief and all the valley was the colour of grief .
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