Example sentences of "could [adv] see [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could suddenly see years back , when her dad took her to smell the tar-bucket . |
| 2 | If she could only see Troy now , he would help her to decide ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They could only see Blefuscu 's warships coming closer , as I was swimming and my head was occasionally under the water . |
| 5 | She looked and looked at the place where the fire had been , searching for the future , but could only see ashes . |
| 6 | There was a figure on either side of him but I could only see Charlie Vaughan . |
| 7 | and that 's a bargain , and se you know these reps would come round selling this that and the other and if , you could only see samples after , would n't touch it with a barge pole like you know , yeah I 'll have that , that 's all but that 's because he had a good grounding |
| 8 | Out of the corner of his eye he could just see Dan Ashton , the road-gang foreman and union representative . |
| 9 | He could just see boxes , litter blowing in the wind and rats scavenging for food . |
| 10 | We could just see Lake Zwai and beyond it a wall of mountains on the far side of the Rift Valley . |
| 11 | She could just see Roman 's car and she was blinded by a rush of tears as she realised she would never again sit in it by his side . |
| 12 | He could just see Hasan , sitting , as usual , quite still , his hands resting lightly on the desk in front of him . |
| 13 | Darkness whirled round her , and she could hardly see Fand any more ; only the spear-tip burned , like a dim flame . |
| 14 | And when it daylight came the next day next morning you could hardly believe it you could hardly see Rousay for the foam that the gale kick up like a thick fog . |
| 15 | When I went to Roundhay first I could still see fairies . |
| 16 | The Anchor brewery had been built in 1757 by a couple of brewers from Bethnal Green called Wastfield and Moss , at a time when the district was so quiet and un-built-up you could still see ships passing on the Thames from the brewery windows . |
| 17 | If she half closed her eyes , she could still see Nuadu , the thin , rather sardonic smile twisting his lips , his eyes narrowed and mocking . |
| 18 | Except that she could still see Julius in every drawing . |
| 19 | Although Charlie could always see Trentham in front of him , Tommy was so silent in his wake that from time to time he had to look back just to be certain his friend was still there . |
| 20 | After a few hours ' walking along the ridge we could clearly see Koitobos , one of the peaks surrounding the crater rim — a long , flat-topped buttress with a steep cone at one end , composed of large , dark brown , vertical columns . |
| 21 | I was watching Sky replays of the incident over tea and snickers at half time , and heard the pundits blathering about a handball by Rod Wallace which they could clearly see happening , but I could n't . |
| 22 | Next year could also see Unit 's graduation from the third tier to the main market . |
| 23 | He could also see bits of horns or wings down the side . |
| 24 | We could also see Amy playing , and we could count the money Mr Smith saved for both parents to spend on cleaning materials which we could watch them using ! |
| 25 | Elizabeth listened intently , till she could practically see steam puffing out of the ears of Seumas Ban and Lady Bridhe . |
| 26 | I could now see Malc on the front row quite clearly . |
| 27 | I could even see Conchis , who was sitting where we had sat on the terrace the night before , apparently reading . |
| 28 | Last August Australia sent three naval ships to the Gulf ; Bob Hawke , the prime minister , made it clear in December that they would be put under American operational control and could well see combat . |
| 29 | You could almost see Colin and Mister C developing the same kind of double act as Flavor Flav and Chuck D. The prof and the prat . |
| 30 | He could almost see Richmann 's anger — that of the other man who had killed his mother in a similar fit of rage all those years ago . |