Example sentences of "could [adv] see [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He could not see the Wood family .
2 The party 's problem was that it was a Catholic organisation and could not see the class basis of the problems .
3 Place could not see the police presence on the river walk above his head , but he could probably guess it was there .
4 When he stood up he could just see a fire engine as if on the high seas diving and heaving towards him .
5 The tide was already on the turn , you could just see the stone margin of the path they had walked .
6 Although it was dark , I could still see the stone wall at the edge of the road .
7 Nathan could still see the preacher standing , shocked and speechless , on his box .
8 Yeremi could still see the tube wall quite clearly with his enhanced vision .
9 And I never found any embarrassment there because there was I always saw the wom woman , you could always see a woman chemist .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 From where he stood he could n't see the hospital wing .
13 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 ?
14 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 .
15 The organ pipes are in the middle of the chancel and you could n't see the east window at the .
16 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 .
17 I know it sounds crazy , but even as I watched this little boy , Jimbo , I thought I could actually see a muscle quiver .
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