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 | You think that because I can sometimes see what 's trivial and what 's important in art I ought to be more virtuous . |
| 17 | I can hardly see him , he 's almost invisible . |
| 18 | I can hardly see him killing Gray . |
| 19 | I said to June I can hardly see I 've got that bad a headache . |
| 20 | I can hardly see it anyway , through the mist of my hurt . |
| 21 | The light may be so poor that I can hardly see anything at all anyway . |
| 22 | I can only see one one duck all the rest are drakes . |
| 23 | I can only see one , I ca n't see another . |
| 24 | I can only see myself as a conversation piece , worth more as gossip than a fuck . |
| 25 | I have to look after two dear little boys , but these days I can only see them growing up to behave so cruelly towards women . |
| 26 | If we wish to progress up the football ladder , I can only see us doing so by winning promotion . |
| 27 | Yeah yeah now I can actually see what you look like . |
| 28 | It 's probably why I can actually see it peeping out over the top . |
| 29 | Mm yes well I can actually see you know |
| 30 | ‘ Oh I can quite see your point of view ’ is not a reaction that is on the agenda , quite frankly . |