Example sentences of "could [adv] see [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she could only see Troy now , he would help her to decide ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They could only see Blefuscu 's warships coming closer , as I was swimming and my head was occasionally under the water . |
| 4 | There was a figure on either side of him but I could only see Charlie Vaughan . |
| 5 | Out of the corner of his eye he could just see Dan Ashton , the road-gang foreman and union representative . |
| 6 | We could just see Lake Zwai and beyond it a wall of mountains on the far side of the Rift Valley . |
| 7 | He could just see Hasan , sitting , as usual , quite still , his hands resting lightly on the desk in front of him . |
| 8 | Darkness whirled round her , and she could hardly see Fand any more ; only the spear-tip burned , like a dim flame . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If she half closed her eyes , she could still see Nuadu , the thin , rather sardonic smile twisting his lips , his eyes narrowed and mocking . |
| 11 | Except that she could still see Julius in every drawing . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | I could now see Malc on the front row quite clearly . |
| 15 | I could even see Conchis , who was sitting where we had sat on the terrace the night before , apparently reading . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She could quite see Aunt Tossie unpicking the oldest and least favoured work and starting the canvas over again . |
| 19 | Lydia could quite see Beuno maddeningly getting himself martyred on some trivial point of principle , or overturning a regime with his angelic intransigence . |
| 20 | You see — I could never see Bridget home when we went out . ’ |