Example sentences of "he [modal v] not see the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We thought he might not see the body , ’ said Libab . |
| 2 | Unhappily , she averted her head so that he could not see the glimmer of tears that smarted behind her eyelids . |
| 3 | The court also absolved General Jorge Rabanal , who led the operation , on the grounds that from his post he could not see the slaughter of the prisoners . |
| 4 | I have always looked upon you as Theo Daniel said he could not see the pain Frederica said was in the olives , and Alexander , still lecturing , said that Vincent had objected to paintings of symbolic Christs in Gethsemane by Bernard and his compères , had torn up his own , had made do with the olives themselves . |
| 5 | Stirling jumped as the first man of his stick and in the darkness made a bad landing as he could not see the ground . |
| 6 | One tells of Drud , or Nightmare , familiar in folk-tale , another tells of an uncanny , supernatural instance : a master gunsmith could hit anything in range of his rifle even if he could not see the object . |
| 7 | In the dark he would not see the obstacle . |
| 8 | Unless a man is born anew , he can not see the kingdom of God . " |
| 9 | He says this over and over again in verse three , unless one is born again he can not see the Kingdom of God . |