Example sentences of "[modal v] see [noun] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I am lucky , and the weather is compatible with fish-spotting , I should see signs of the carp when they push through weedbeds and hump through the surface , or mudclouds and bubbles when they root in the bottom . |
| 2 | And we might see movement within the colour segments of a newspaper . |
| 3 | Well I 'll see Chris with the B M. |
| 4 | Follow that long dual carriageway and you 'll see signs for the turnoff . |
| 5 | And then on Thursday Bill 's coming to play with you and you 're going to nursery and then on Friday you 'll see Lucy in the day time |
| 6 | Looking backwards over the history of inquiry , from the security of our current views , we may see evidence of the cunning of reason bringing us gradually closer to the approximately true , but from that perspective we can offer descriptions and explanations of what was going on which show , for instance , that hypothesis selection was not ‘ blind ’ . |
| 7 | Thus only a parent may see information on the record concerning the pupil 's racial group , language or religion , and only a parent may see a statement of special educational needs ( under the Education Act 1981 — see Chapter 4 ) or results of the pupil 's assessment . |
| 8 | I could see Martina down the end of the passage , aproned , with plates in her hand . |
| 9 | Ace could see movements behind the windows of the shuttle . |
| 10 | Through the open doorway Culley could see activity near the pit , and shadows jostling on the walls . |
| 11 | The darkness intensified down in the wood though I could see stars between the boughs . |
| 12 | Lieutenant Gerry Mackenzie reported by telephone — the civilian network remained open long after the Japanese invasion — that he could see lights in the estuary of the Comoro river and a patrol went out for a quick recce . |
| 13 | He could see Ruth at the door of his office , frowning , shaking her head , looking back over her shoulder . |
| 14 | At the end she could see part of the ward , a gleaming parquet floor and white-painted bedsteads . |
| 15 | He could see part of the canal , part of a garden , barges loaded with potatoes , a rear view of houses being pulled down by workmen , and in the distance rows of trees and street lamps , a complicated little almshouse with its gardens , and finally a grand expanse of roofs . |
| 16 | I could see mist over the forests below the mountains , and fog out over the North Sea . |
| 17 | Doyle could see bruises on the man 's neck . |
| 18 | I could see the Wood to my right and way across the Paddock I could see Waters in the Shogun patrolling the edge of the Orchard . |
| 19 | And Julius Caesar stood in France in because he was in , the place he captured in France , and he could see Britain across the water and he wondered what the land was like over there . |
| 20 | Rabbit-runs tend to be bow-shaped ; but this was straight , so that above them , through the mouth of the hole , Hazel could see leaves against the night sky . |
| 21 | He could see Vasco on the street , fourteen years old , face like a guitar . |
| 22 | His cloak hung down like a curtain , and I could see streetlamps through the bullet holes in it . |
| 23 | Going from window to window , he could see traces of the woman Susan had told him about , but Luke Mallen was a ghost in the place — nothing of him to be found ; except , in all that stillness , a sense of violence . |
| 24 | We could see snow on the moors . |
| 25 | The door was ajar and Patrick could see movement inside the room . |
| 26 | An evening with a breeze ; I could see movement in the bracken that edged the track , and cloud-shadows moved from time to time over the sea-pinks . |
| 27 | Now she could see shapes beneath the water ; now there were three , no here came another one — four — silvery fish dancing in mid-air on her line . |
| 28 | She could see Dorcas in the back of the cab , explaining what various levers did . |
| 29 | He nodded , his mouth a bitter line , but she could see acceptance in the way he bowed his dark head , and she felt deep compassion for him , for his wasted life and wasted efforts and wasted pain . |
| 30 | You 'd see fellows in the middle of the night , especially if they were carrying something . |