Example sentences of "[adv] see [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cobalt 's mouth curved in his mischievous smile although she could only see her reflection in his lenses . |
| 2 | But as we were very small people in these days , he could only see his way to take Selkirkshire and Peebleshire . |
| 3 | That was all , because , when he sat down , people could only see his coat and his shirt , which were not very old . |
| 4 | As a good friend of mine once commented , ‘ If man could only see his aura , he would never go to war . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Ca n't say much about 'is looks , 'e 'ad a scarf wrapped around 'is neck an' face ; you could only see 'is hooter an' mince pies . |
| 6 | You will not necessarily see your physiotherapist doing exactly the treatment techniques described below : she may use some of these techniques plus others she has devised herself , or she may use a completely different method . |
| 7 | He finished the glass of Kir and decided that he had better see his controller in person . |
| 8 | He began to shake , not because he was physically afraid of Nicholson , though the man was twice his size , but because he could suddenly see his world falling apart around him . |
| 9 | PATIENTS so short-sighted they could scarcely see their car from 25 yards can now see well enough without glasses or contact lenses to read its number plate . |
| 10 | For some years her vision had only enabled her to find her way about her house : she could not read and could scarcely see her television . |
| 11 | Johnson reports this and other gory tales , tongue-in-cheek so firmly you can scarcely see his jaw bulge . |
| 12 | This feature is barely touched on by Chiaro , perhaps because she does not see her sub-title " word-play " in terms of semantic violations . |
| 13 | He could not see her hair , which was wound tightly into a turban of peacock-feathered painted silk , low on her brow . |
| 14 | Dorothy did not see her brother again for nine years , and never once returned to the family home in Cockermouth before the death of her father in 1783 . |
| 15 | A love struck farmer 's daughter was told she could not see her sweetheart . |
| 16 | Susan did not answer at once ; in fact , she was silent for such a long time that Breeze , who could not see her face , wondered if she had fallen asleep . |
| 17 | He could not see her face , since it was turned from him , but there was something about her that made his heart stand still . |
| 18 | He does not see her face : it seems that she is not the Juanita he has kept in his mind : yet he is haunted by an inexplicable likeness and is perturbed by the young American 's cool reception of his warning . |
| 19 | The veil came from her head to her feet ; she could see out through it , but we could not see her face . |
| 20 | Gabriel could not see her face . |
| 21 | He could not see her face now . |
| 22 | ( she rolls her eyes , knowing that he can not see her face . ) |
| 23 | She knew enough , now , to be aware that , although Johnny could see her friends , could talk to them and touch them , he could not see her world . |
| 24 | I think he is beloved by Alice Fenwick , but does not see her devotion . |
| 25 | Despite its enormous membership , the LNU in the 1920s had not been a popular movement — it did not see its function primarily as campaigning to change Government policy . |
| 26 | Although the local authority was sympathetic to her problem , the sum of money available to it for discretionary grants had been severely cut in recent years , so it could not see its way to helping her further . |
| 27 | Criticism can not see its role as ‘ putting right ’ previous errors as though academic study was part of a stream of emendation aimed at achieving some final truth about texts . |
| 28 | We shall not see its like again . |
| 29 | Psychology does not see its age bias as a problem . |
| 30 | The clerk was instructed to inform Mr. Johnson however that the guardians ‘ did not see their way to continuing supplying champagne ’ . |