Example sentences of "[pron] could see [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a long while , I could see her in the rear-view mirror , standing in the dusty road in her long white dress , holding her child and looking after the Felder . |
| 2 | If I could see him at the back I 'll er , I 'll just get the question a bit more clearer and I 'm sure I can help . |
| 3 | I opened my eyes at fucking five to six and I could see him at the window Ken ran then across the road and he says Dawn your brother 's been trying to get in for ages . |
| 4 | ‘ I could see them at the hotel . |
| 5 | ‘ I could see them from the window in that place . |
| 6 | The tears were streaming down his face ; I could see them in the light from my room . |
| 7 | I could see myself on the roof of our house , as , for the last time , I spread the couscous out to dry on a sheet in the sun before my journey to London : I could see the village below me : the tops of the trees , the minaret , the ancient wall which ran round my village . |
| 8 | I could see you through the keyhole . |
| 9 | I was with , and it was , I could see it at the front . |
| 10 | ‘ No , you did n't have to , you little bitch ; I could see it from the minute we arrived ! |
| 11 | With his head turned his face was close to hers and he would stare right at her , maybe thinking nobody could see him in the dimness , or maybe not caring if they did . |
| 12 | She could see nothing through the night — and hear nothing other than the sound of rolling waves — until the outline of the steep cliffs towered above her . |
| 13 | She could see nothing through the thick clouds of dust that choked her . |
| 14 | Again she glanced at the windscreen of the other car but she could see nothing through the darkened glass . |
| 15 | At first she could see nothing except the river so many floors below them . |
| 16 | And then , when she looked at the high terrace with its pots of trailing geraniums , she could see nothing for the shadow was so intense — not the pale blob of a face or the movement of a hand — but she was suddenly as sure as she could be of anything that someone was standing there , looking down , waiting for them to get out of the car and watching them . |
| 17 | She did not even notice when Connor and Ruth took the children out of the kitchen , closing the door softly behind them ; she could see nothing but the hope and the love that shone in Ernest 's patient , trusting face . |
| 18 | Yet she could see nothing in the future but hurt for both of them . |
| 19 | She could see him through the shutters — a big man , a Berber , a kind-looking man with bright blue eyes and tattoos . |
| 20 | She tended to be over-indulgent with Victoria , partly because she could see herself in the child and partly too , in some perverse fashion , to make up for what she considered to be her own harsh upbringing under Jonadab 's strict rules . |
| 21 | She could see it in the covert glances of the London girls , some of whom had been planning how to look at the Belvoir dance for the past month . |
| 22 | She could see it in the black expression that crossed his face and the tightened lips . |
| 23 | You could see them in the bull-neck , in the big shoulders , in the thick arms , in the sinewy wrists and in the powerful legs . |
| 24 | In theory , you could see me in the Sunshine Home for Impoverished Journalists in 40 years ' time , tripping the nurses over with my Zimmer frame in the hope that they 'll let me father their child . |
| 25 | Second point : although you obviously have such a low opinion of me that it does n't strain your credulity to believe that I was making love to two women at once , one of them married , I ca n't believe that even you could see me in the role of toy-boy . |
| 26 | You could see it in the way he performed against Pakistan . ’ |
| 27 | We could see him behind the grille over the heads of the crowd . |
| 28 | At first , in the fading light , we could see nothing but the icy path , the snow-covered trees on either side — but then the flicker of a candle flame caught our eyes . |
| 29 | ‘ We had n't quite reached that point , ’ says Mr Johnson , ‘ but we could see it on the horizon . ’ |
| 30 | But still we kept saying if only we could see ourselves on the video , that would help us . |