Example sentences of "not [adv] see [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the Baptism of Jesus did not merely see the end of the long silence , and God 's declaration that in Jesus the role of the Servant and the Son had converged : the age-long drought of the Holy Spirit was ended too . |
| 2 | It did not matter that Ben could not physically see the pages of the journal : in his mind he could turn them anyway and read the tall columns of cyphers . |
| 3 | A further example of the parallelism of greater precision may be found here , though commentators do not generally see the connection of thought between the two lines . |
| 4 | If I am serious , I can not simply see the preservation of the countryside as a desire of a few people like myself , to be weighed in the balance against the desires of others for holidays abroad , when it comes to deciding on whether a new airport should be built in some place of outstanding beauty . |
| 5 | Perhaps you could not even see the windows of the School from where he was . |
| 6 | But where this is successful , they will link their fortunes to capitalism , and will not even see the state as an oppressive part of the class struggle . |
| 7 | Yes , you 're always wary of erm people like that you know , their reputation goes before them , and erm you do n't really see the ball till late , he just flicked it down , I just done enough to get down and erm you know , get my right hand to it and like , Steve Foster was following up well and that and you know , that 's the things that we 've got the run with us now . |
| 8 | You could n't really see the shape of the spots . |
| 9 | Ca n't really see the point of hanging on to old grudges at this late stage . ’ |
| 10 | I told him that I did n't really see the point in him talking to Frank and me separately . |
| 11 | Get to the back of the drawers and cupboards — areas which do n't often see the light of day . |
| 12 | It runs off with ornaments , it digs holes so deep you ca n't even see the puppy in the hole all you can see is the earth coming out of the ground . |
| 13 | Jezrael could n't even see the rest of her squad at work in the power-room , but they were . |
| 14 | It towered so far above me I could n't even see the top of it . |
| 15 | Hoover could n't even see the point of intelligence reports which showed Japan 's interest in how to attack a deep harbour , and how deep Pearl Harbour might be . |
| 16 | You and Matthew are the smart ones , and you could n't even see the noses in front of your faces . |
| 17 | I ca n't quite see the reason for discounting second homes altogether as the D O E have done . |