Example sentences of "[verb] you could see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her skin , like leathery bark , was stretched tightly over the skeleton , and in places where it had cracked and parted you could see the bones inside like old wood . |
| 2 | Then I finally realised you could see it , but you 'd decided simply to ignore it . |
| 3 | What man would n't ? -I mean you could see everything . |
| 4 | and when we and when we were dredging that up , that used to be all like er er trunks of trees and you could , I mean you could see it when they come up it was very light . |
| 5 | No , but I mean you could see play really well . |
| 6 | And then there 's traces of er you know you could see where the old foundations and things were . |
| 7 | You know you could see out onto platform . |
| 8 | whatever they were using as bait presumably some mackerel or something like that but , but as I was saying you could see it trailing through and then all , suddenly out of like nowhere this fish would come and like chase after it |
| 9 | Oh yes they did for , for the increase in traffic I mean that er that er went on over the years gradually creep , creep , creep on until the whole atmosphere of the place was er I do n't know improved should you say or not I do n't know whether it 's er well it certainly has n't improved but erm it changed , it was such a lovely little place really , and of course you could run across the road whenever you liked I mean we used to play in Street of picking out in a sweet shop window er a name be Cadbury 's or chocolate or something you 'd be standing across the road and you 'd be running backwards and forwards backwards and forwards , there was no sign of anyone getting run over cos there was nothing about , and when I was a kid going to the Bluecoat School I 'd run across that bridge every morning without looking right or left , because if anything had hit me , well nothing used to be coming you could see a tram coming but oh there was nothing else at that time in the morning oh no it was , would n't like to run across today . |
| 10 | And there if you went you could see them : |
| 11 | When the autumn gales blew you could see the smoke being sucked out through the wall like water out of a leaky bucket . |
| 12 | I stared at him and this close you could see that he was young . |
| 13 | I 'm not saying that 's , okay , you got a bit misled by the instructions but do n't worry , but he still gave you could see that you know he was , you know , he was just |
| 14 | Even got myself a nice little vacation landward of Seattlefish on Earth — hills , rivers , air you could breathe , that sort of stuff , and the sky so clear you 'd figure you could see forever . |
| 15 | And if I am not mistaken you could see share prices really motoring after that . |
| 16 | You said you could see it . |
| 17 | Well yes we had you could see on some of them , they did n't want much to turn them on , you know there was two or three there and they they took some others with them of course then did n't they , you know . |
| 18 | I 'm smiling to myself in the darkness , Timmy — I wish you could see me . |
| 19 | It says wish you could see the shots John has taken . |
| 20 | Joan is proud of both talent and talent-spotter : ‘ Graeme said that just by watching Steve work you could see he had something , that he instinctively knew how to handle the food . ’ |
| 21 | Yeah , he did say you could see some of it |