Example sentences of "i can [adv] see [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a grandmother , it might be an odd domestic habit that is remembered — ‘ you know she used to polish her table legs and brass — and she used to cover 'em up after ’ — or simply her appearance : ‘ I can just see her with her white apron on , and cap ; ’ or ‘ she had a beautiful sequin coat , cape and a little sequin bonnet ; ’ or again , of a duchess , ‘ I can remember a tall gaunt woman in black — rather frightened of her . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I can just see her dripping with tears of anxiety . ’ |
| 3 | I can just see them : Mum with a cottage cheese salad lying uneaten on her plate — Dad in the office amid piles of unread scripts , unable to concentrate for fear that his darling ? hated ? infuriating daughter lies at the bottom of the Thames , the Severn , the Atlantic … |
| 4 | ‘ I can just see them , ’ said Garvin , ‘ when I go along . |
| 5 | Yeah I can just see them in the rear mirror . |
| 6 | I can just see him , waiting on the rank . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I can just see him looking down that long nose of his and saying in that sanctimonious voice : ‘ there 's something you ought to know , Mr O'Shea … ’ |
| 8 | I can just see him tonight . |
| 9 | I can just see his eyes . |
| 10 | ( Crying in justified woundedness ) Oh I can just see you lyin' there five year aul' in yer bed recess with your sixteen brothers and sisters eating snotters and planning to trap our Deirdre , tie her down by fair means or foul . |
| 11 | I can just see you floating into your box at the Opera , all svelte and soignée … ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I can just see you in Holloway , Marge . |
| 13 | File it alongside ‘ I 'll put you in motion pictures ’ , ‘ I could immortalise you in paint ’ , ‘ I can just see your neck in marble ’ , etc , etc . |
| 14 | It is rather faint ; I can just see it with × 12 and easily with × 20 , but I have never been able to detect it with × 7 . |
| 15 | I always find it a difficult binocular object ; I can just see it with × 20 , but I am not confident that I can identify it with a lower magnification . |
| 16 | I can not see her but I can summon up her presence . |
| 17 | At first I can not see her for the heaps of people about her bedside , brandished with packaged sweets and magazines and flowers of white and purple . |
| 18 | I love the club and I can not see myself playing for anyone else . ’ |
| 19 | Flavia went on following her train of thought , ‘ I can not see him doing even a disinterested thing if it went against a rule . ’ |
| 20 | Morris is due a benefit before too long and , despite fears in some Celtic quarters , I can not see him leaving Glamorgan . |
| 21 | Personally I can not see what all the fuss has been about . ’ |
| 22 | But I can not see what I would do with a home computer , one of which I am continually being urged to buy by manufacturers and retailers and by drops in prices of the things that are as near as a toucher opening up my cheque book . |
| 23 | I can not see what 's wrong with it . |
| 24 | Frankly I can not see what is enigmatic about a caption or about defining one 's practice . |
| 25 | I can not see what will happen in the future at the moment . ’ |
| 26 | If the impassioned pleas are directed at those close to the culprits , I can not see them having much effect . |
| 27 | I lost my friends because I can not see them now and they do n't have the money to come here . ’ |
| 28 | At night I can not see it , and in the morning , it is gone . |
| 29 | But I can not see it solving the crisis of the socialist left . |
| 30 | I can not see it in ‘ Stitchworld ’ although number 177 has a similar sort of line . |