Example sentences of "not see the [noun sg] of [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pupils could not see the relevance of what they were asked to do and so lost motivation . |
| 2 | He was all soft and scummy inside , and greenish , like his eyes , and she stood up and pulled the two halves of his torn torso together like a shirt she was going to button up so she should not see the spilling of his innards . |
| 3 | That much of the population could not see the superiority of their society did not deter them : a workers ' uprising was crushed , the Wall was built , travel was extremely limited , all criticism rigorously suppressed . |
| 4 | He did not see the point of it . |
| 5 | He decided to be nice about the whole business , though he still could not see the point of it , and offered to put the little biscuity things into bowls . |