Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [adv] [modal v] [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was so frustrated with everything , my life and my game , the whole scene , that I just could n't see straight . |
| 2 | Five minutes later , without giving herself time to think , be disappointed that she probably would n't see him again after today , she ran lightly down the stairs and out through the front door . |
| 3 | It was it was fun when we first started , because the weather was nice , you know it was er you c take a thermos up and have a picnic and sit in the chair and read a book or whatever if there was no one around , but after a while when it became a duty , yeah it was hard work getting up on a winter 's morning , knowing full well that you probably would n't see any cars if you down in until about ten in the morning , but you still had to be there at seven o'clock , and honking it down with rain or whatever . |
| 4 | I read a book — I do n't know — some metamorphosist or something who went to live on an island — anyway , he believes , he says that there is something — that things are caught in light and space waves , that we do n't die , that it 's all still here , but that we just ca n't see it . |
| 5 | The frog relies on its fly detectors so much that it probably can not see a motionless insect , and will starve rather than eat one . |
| 6 | Maybe he was a man so obsessed with hidden things that he simply could n't see open criminality — which looked like business and politics almost as usual . |