Example sentences of "[adv] i could see " in BNC.
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| 1 | We won for a third time at Zandvoort , the first grand prix of the season : apart from the prize money , that moved us up a scale on the start money and suddenly I could see our way through the rest of the season . |
| 2 | One even had a flagpole and over the top of the trees below I could see the Union Jack fluttering . |
| 3 | If only I could see you – just once ? all our drams , Vincent , where are they ? |
| 4 | If only I could see him before next week . |
| 5 | ‘ If only I could see it as a tourist one day , ’ she said wistfully . |
| 6 | Having been up a ladder , only I could see how easy it is , you could fall off a ladder as simply as anything . |
| 7 | His mum , Jacqueline , of Cardigan , said : ‘ When I bent down I could see that the metal mesh had been cutting in to his scalp . ’ |
| 8 | After a hundred yards or so I could see behind me the whole cliffed extent of the headland , and the house . |
| 9 | yeah and so I could see the blokes and tell them that were crap at rugby ! |
| 10 | At eight o'clock I could see the faces of the audience well enough , but by and by the room became quite dark , and I seemed to be addressing an audience of silent and attentive ghosts . |
| 11 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |
| 12 | He was still reading , and writing , and soon I could see a change in him . |
| 13 | Soon I could see the beach … and a crowd of people standing and watching me . |
| 14 | As the medics were carrying him away I could see blood oozing out of the eye-holes of his boots and dripping on the ground . |
| 15 | Even from fifty yards away I could see her pained expression . |
| 16 | When I got downstairs I could see the drawing-room light was on so I thought they must still be up , I 'll go and see if they want a snack . |
| 17 | Already I could see myself standing there , tongue-tied and grinning sheepishly , the star of a bedroom farce which had gone badly off the rails . |
| 18 | Still I could see nothing but then I glimpsed the light of a torch . |
| 19 | When we got home I could see that they were ready to agree to the move . |
| 20 | " When she smiled at me yesterday I could see a resemblance . |
| 21 | All at once I could see Galway Bay . |
| 22 | When I looked carefully I could see lots of orange fragments scattered over the sodden grass and glistening brown earth of the field . |
| 23 | But Changez looked so alone — and close up I could see bits of bristle sticking out of his badly shaved face — that even I could n't laugh at him in my usual way . |
| 24 | As he came nearer I could see that he was wearing a velveteen suit which was full of holes and splattered with wet clay . |
| 25 | But here he had to leave me to attend to stores which were being brought on board , and some twenty minutes later I could see the place for myself . |
| 26 | But a minute later I could see what was going to happen and I began thinking every which way of how to change the subject . |
| 27 | They were supposed to heighten our perceptions , but really I could see little difference between my ordinary vision of life , which was fantastic enough , and what the pills apparently produced , mainly a nervous sleeplessness shot through with incoherent babblings and bursts of laughter alternating with floods of tears . |
| 28 | Often I could see no connection between a remark made by one person and the reply given by another . |
| 29 | Was it Monday , no it was yesterday , I was in the loo and I could hear this paper being ripped and I thought oh they 've got one of my club catalogues , I did n't think any more of it and then I could hear Joseph going weee , I thought what the devil 's he got , so went out , Joseph has got the flying circus bus that was meant for Charlotte and him and , Brenda and Charlotte was sharing the , the , garage thing that I 've brought so I thought well now it 's out , well they 're not going to keep all that till I said to him whatever is Father Christmas going to say , I said he 's supposed to be taking these away to bring I said er , what 's Father Christmas gon na say ? , no Ben forget , so I thought while they 're out I could see Joseph 's playing a lot , way with this bus thing , he was having a whale of a time , he thought that was great , so I said to Charlotte I said do you like that bus ? |
| 30 | With my head turned sideways I could see out of the window and through the house to Willesden Sports Centre where a Sunday league football team was working out . |