Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] see into the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She was short-sighted a could not see into the auditorium .
2 Dazzled by the evening sun the people in the garden could not see into the sitting room and had no idea who Rain 's visitor was until Wickham joined them .
3 How fortunate for the denizens of The Daily Herald , then , that they could not see into the future — even the immediate future !
4 Hiding near the door , I could just see into the kitchen through a small uncurtained window .
5 ‘ You could n't see into the office from the kitchen ? ’
6 This does n't allow fine-detail viewing — the viewer ca n't see into the windows of homes — but individual streets , river traffic , troop or merchant wagon movements and suchlike are readily seen .
7 But I ca n't see into the future ’ .
8 I ca n't see into the future in the way you said your Aunt Liti could do , but I 'm certain of this , for I feel it in my bones .
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