Example sentences of "but [indef pn] [modal v] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | But someone might see me out there … |
| 2 | THE government 's emergency food programme , according to a joke doing the rounds in Havana , is like God ; everyone talks about it but nobody can see it . |
| 3 | He is here but nobody can see him , except me . ’ |
| 4 | It can be argued that American children are not always very intelligent or easy to teach , with catastrophically short attention spans , but one can see the beginnings of a sad muddle even in England , with the publication of a homosexual prayer book giving instructions for a ‘ coming out ’ liturgy next door to prayers for those who already suffer from the American disease . |
| 5 | But one can see immediately that that is not so : the task of the modules is translation , and so the task of each translation module is therefore different ( translating a poem from English to Chinese is not the same task as translating that poem from Chinese to French ) . |
| 6 | What this meant in terms of plates is not clear , but one can see in Europe that something fundamental had happened and we are now dealing , not with an Atlantic line , but with a Mediterranean one . |
| 7 | The title suggests that the suffering is focused on only one protagonist but one can see later how the King causes so much trouble and pain for his relations . |