Example sentences of "see [pron] [noun sg] [prep] front [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One such gillie , towards the end of his career , carried out his duties more by instinct than by reason : he had always been shortsighted , but , nearing retirement , he could hardly see his hand in front of his face . |
| 2 | What I did not realise when I bought the house was that in the winter , and sometimes in the summer , the fog rolls thickly in and you can not see your hand in front of your face . |
| 3 | You can hardly see your hand in front of your face and er I mean there was no way to fight the fire , so I mean all we could do was sort of stand back and look 'cos we were up There was about At that stage there was twenty or thirty of us standing in this north west corner of the platform . |
| 4 | ‘ Is it meaner than a dungeon so dark that you ca n't see your hand in front of your face ? ’ |
| 5 | At least this dust was somewhat localized whilst that from machine drills could fill headings and stopes until at times it was impossible for a miner to see his hand in front of his face in the dim candlelight . |