Example sentences of "can see [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I can see Dad in a black suit and tie — even a black waistcoat with three black buttons — and he looks deadest of all .
2 The whole idea of WYSIWYG is that you can see changes happening as you do things .
3 Wherever you go , even in the towns , you can see mountains and lakes .
4 One piece of South Cornish — and Plymouth — weather lore runs , ‘ When you can see Eddystone clearly , rain is on its way ; when you can not see it clearly , rain is already here ’ .
5 On the other side of the rim I can see way over the savannah in the direction of the Mountain of God , which is reduced in size so that I ca n't be sure which of the outcrops on the horizon it is .
6 Oh , I can see Hugo .
7 I do n't think Jane can see Jane .
8 AS YOU CAN SEE CLUBS THROUGHOUT THE U.K. ARE CHOOSING FASTRAX FOR QUALITY CLUB VESTS .
9 I can see Wheeler in there .
10 Just under the surface , though , we can see signs of a willingness to take nothing on trust , to maintain a permanent self-vigilance , and if necessary to overturn the cultural idols .
11 As we stroll through the mall we can see signs of the opposite problem .
12 I can see signs of improvement throughout the club . ’
13 At the wildlife sanctuary in Caerlaverock you can see natterjack toads , and in winter flocks of geese arrive .
14 Twenty-five miles away , at the Caerlaverock Nature Reserve , along the shore of the Nith Estuary and Solway Firth , you can see natterjack toads and great flocks of wildfowl .
15 And you can see Oxford in action on Sunday .
16 She can set something or someone perfectly in context ; she can see bits of life steadily instead of trying to see it whole , when it is intolerable .
17 We can see bits of jewelry heaped in her night-table drawer .
18 I can see bits of my woodwork have gone . ’
19 ‘ I can see helicopters , ’ said Angalo .
20 I can see loads of uses for it .
21 Oh I can see Emma wear , wear did wear them .
22 You can see baskets , Vito , not soldiers .
23 But also one can see families in these situations creating maximum flexibility by using some members for household-based production and some for different types of waged work in what Wall calls the adaptive family economy : ‘ their economic activities were diversified against the prospect of bad times and to make the most of the good ’ ( 1986 , p. 294 ) .
24 The children 's room is below mine and I can see clothes strung from the ceiling , shoes flung beneath the bed , blankets cast aside .
25 Nineteen miles away at the Loch Ness Centre , you can see evidence and theories about the elusive monster , and take a ‘ Jacobite Cruise ’ from the Clansman Marina to Urquhart Castle .
26 Now I can see rooftops outside the windows as well as open sky .
27 ‘ I can easily understand how people can see seals as dewy-eyed little things but if you 're a fisherman who has just had 200 creels robbed and you have n't even made enough money to pay for your fuel never mind make a living , you would view them differently .
28 Children can see Arnold Schwarzenegger killing people .
29 At once I can see Annexe B , Summerchild 's list of possible members of the Unit , as clearly as if it had just come out of the porridge oats box .
30 Having said all this I can see Wilko selling him almost imediately — this was his reaction when Scumtona started making waves last year — nearly a year to the day when he sold the scum the league .
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