Example sentences of "could [adv] see [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Granny was seated in her rocking chair facing the fireplace , but her back was to me and I could only see the paper curlers she had in her hair . |
| 2 | He could not see the Wood family . |
| 3 | The party 's problem was that it was a Catholic organisation and could not see the class basis of the problems . |
| 4 | Place could not see the police presence on the river walk above his head , but he could probably guess it was there . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When he stood up he could just see a fire engine as if on the high seas diving and heaving towards him . |
| 7 | The tide was already on the turn , you could just see the stone margin of the path they had walked . |
| 8 | They could just see the Maggon Mountains to the West . |
| 9 | Although it was dark , I could still see the stone wall at the edge of the road . |
| 10 | Nathan could still see the preacher standing , shocked and speechless , on his box . |
| 11 | Yeremi could still see the tube wall quite clearly with his enhanced vision . |
| 12 | And I never found any embarrassment there because there was I always saw the wom woman , you could always see a woman chemist . |
| 13 | The Bushman was following it , but suddenly he swerved aside and he went off in another direction and I followed him , although I could clearly see the buffalo hoofmarks leading off in the opposite way . |
| 14 | Behind the gun barrel , we could now see the tank crew sitting on the turret of the T-62 , one of them with a cloth tied round his forehead . |
| 15 | He hurried out into the garden but to his disappointment he could n't see a pear tree anywhere let alone one with a partridge in it . |
| 16 | No I just could n't see the name Prima actually just |
| 17 | From where he stood he could n't see the hospital wing . |
| 18 | But what about the sailors in the southern hemisphere — the part of the earth south of the Equator ? they could n't see the Pole Star , so what did they use to guide them ? |
| 19 | Working out the visibility was easier as we did have guidelines here — a tree on the other side of the airfield was at 1,000 yards , a distant farmhouse 2 miles , and if you could n't see the briefing room it was foggy . |
| 20 | The organ pipes are in the middle of the chancel and you could n't see the east window at the . |
| 21 | She could almost see the thought processes flicker across his brain . |
| 22 | Soapy could almost see the prison doors . |
| 23 | He had missed her moment — he knew he had missed it — ; yet his eyes softened suddenly , and you could almost see the shadow fall from his shoulders as he twinkled down at Laura where she knelt before her dying fire . |
| 24 | You could barely see the barber jackets for the brollies … torrential rain and wind made the going heavy everywhere at Cheltenham . |
| 25 | I know it sounds crazy , but even as I watched this little boy , Jimbo , I thought I could actually see a muscle quiver . |