Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] longer see " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I looked back I could no longer see the clearing . |
| 2 | Dusk deepened until I could no longer see ten yards ahead , and after I 'd knocked the shaft of the arrow against an unseen hazard twice within a minute I stopped and sank slowly down to my knees , resting my forehead and the front of my left shoulder against a young birch trunk , drained as I 'd never been before . |
| 3 | Perhaps there is still something in it , but I can no longer see it . |
| 4 | My glasses are creased by running water and I can no longer see past the end of the boat . |
| 5 | The most difficult task of all is to pass judgement on a child who has given his all , but whom I can no longer see reaching the goal I have set . |
| 6 | The vision of suicide has now subsided , because I can no longer see my broken body clearly on the dark pavement below . |
| 7 | He sensed the growing tension in Mariana and felt her turn her head so that she could no longer see the wall of cloud less than half a mile to their left . |
| 8 | She could no longer see the Steep yet the feeling of the dark airless room she had left behind , the sound of her foster-parents breathing heavily in the close darkness , still seemed to hang about her and draw her back . |
| 9 | Ruth saw she could n't last long ; her face had a blind look , as if she could no longer see through the dazzling fire . |
| 10 | Soon she could no longer see anything clearly , nor could she make out what the beetles were saying . |
| 11 | But although she could no longer see anything , she could swear that the star stopped on the edge of the hole and did not go in ! |
| 12 | She could no longer see what was happening , and certainly could n't feel anything . |
| 13 | Johnny had moved to the far end of the room and she could no longer see him , but she could guess at the expression on his face . |
| 14 | Isabel 's eyes were suddenly opaque , you could no longer see into them and Kathleen shook her head . |
| 15 | If , in the copy , each square is replaced by some other mark — a hollow triangle , say — you will no longer see a rotation . |
| 16 | She can no longer see the water maiden . |
| 17 | The King 's doctors will make sure that you can no longer see . ’ |
| 18 | This spreadsheet is to be used to keep weekly scores for 16 boys and the problem it posed is that when you want to type in scores for weeks in the second half of the year or for Harry , Ian and John and so on whose names are entered to the right of the spreadsheet , you can no longer see the row and column labels — unless you freeze these titles . |
| 19 | The effect of this is to turn us upside-down and virtually blindfold us , since we can no longer see our eyes , which are hidden in the blank space between the mirrors . |
| 20 | Many of these children are prepared and placed for adoption with strangers , and part of the package is that they will no longer see or be in contact with relatives who have remained in touch during their stay in care . |
| 21 | But too many of them have been weaned on the habit of chopping up the New Testament into bits ( sorting out the sources , contemporary themes and ideologies of Aramaic Palestine or the Hellenistic world ) so that they can no longer see the scriptures as a sacred text aflame with the divine drama . |
| 22 | Ultimately , segmentation policy may lead Perkins to a market situation where it may no longer see itself as " an engineering company selling an engineering product " but instead is " moving towards a service company approach " in which " the ability to work with customers must be a high priority . " |
| 23 | He waited until he could no longer see the reflection of her candle , before going back to the dining room . |
| 24 | Holly could not resist , and they squeezed him out from the hole and when his feet were clear the two men stamped together on the steel plate to flatten it back , and between his knees he could no longer see the whiteness of snow on the stones and the zebra flash of the sleepers . |
| 25 | After a further period , even he could no longer see it . |
| 26 | His vision misted over and he could no longer see . |
| 27 | His tummy had grown very large and when he walked he could no longer see his thin , mis-shapen legs . |