Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] could [adv] see [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well anyway it gets half way through this wood I could n't see couple of yards in front of me |
| 2 | Even in fantasy he could not see Terry Place settling down to a game of chess . |
| 3 | Out of the corner of his eye he could just see Dan Ashton , the road-gang foreman and union representative . |
| 4 | After a few hours ' walking along the ridge we could clearly see Koitobos , one of the peaks surrounding the crater rim — a long , flat-topped buttress with a steep cone at one end , composed of large , dark brown , vertical columns . |
| 5 | Ptolemy ranked it as of the first magnitude , and seems to have referred to it as ‘ the Last of the River ’ ; from Alexandria he could not see Achernar , though Acamar was visible low over the horizon . |