Example sentences of "[pron] he [modal v] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darkness was falling and the huge pane of glass was a black rectangle in which he could see their faces reflected , like the gaunt , disembodied heads of night travellers in a lighted railway carriage . |
| 2 | It was fairly large , with a stove — even a small balcony , from which he could see the heath , huts , and in the distance one of the lifting bridges typical of the region . |
| 3 | ‘ All what moving about the country ? ’ asked Cliff , largely to avert further discussion of sprouts and red cabbage , which he could see was imminent from the suspicious manner in which his mother was turning over the vegetables on her heaped plate . |
| 4 | The tiger that was nearest to him , and which he could see most easily , seemed so bored that he did the same thing day after day , hour after hour . |
| 5 | Their enclosure ran right along the side of the Park , which he could see beyond , stretching wanly into the distance with London 's high-rise buildings far behind . |
| 6 | This was the " heart of the problem " to which he could see no solution , or certainly no " quick fix " . |
| 7 | They were still like it when Sid Cornish , the Professor of Artificial Intelligence , put his head round the door to ask Bill Brice who he should see about getting on television . |
| 8 | I told you he 'd see it . |
| 9 | I had , of course , been told by my surgeon that everything he could see he had taken out , On the other hand , I had chosen to explore further on my own and I was learning that cancer has this nasty habit of playing possum . |
| 10 | Not one he could see , or touch , or fly from ; but one he could feel . |
| 11 | There were three attics and through the open door of one he could see Fox sorting the contents of a huge cabin-trunk while his assistant was foraging in a cupboard beside the chimney breast . |
| 12 | Of the occupant herself he could see no sign . |
| 13 | Poindexter , weary , did not really want to know and had no memory of the memo at all ; he told him he would see him at the office in the morning . |
| 14 | Straight ahead of him he could see the dome of the Texas State Capitol , second-largest in the nation after the Capitol in Washington , gleaming in the late-morning sun . |
| 15 | As he sat waiting for Karlinsky to appear , looking around him he could see other men 's sons , boys of Jacob 's age , sitting with their fathers . |
| 16 | It felt rather like swimming under water in a glass tank : on all sides and above him he could see the world , the outer air , but he was not part of it . |
| 17 | Already ahead of him he could see that he would marry , and it might be disastrously , he had that in him , but at the moment what he had was Rose Hilaire and Gabriel and it was 1966 . |
| 18 | As the lorry neared him he could see that it was carrying fruit for the city . |
| 19 | Wolski shuddered at the grim scene , made worse by this normally peaceful African tawny eagle being angry and stressed over nothing he could see . |
| 20 | There was every reason to take off for home , and nothing he could see to stop him . |
| 21 | The approaching flames were nearer now , and beyond them he could see the villagers trying to peer through the smoke to make out what was happening . |
| 22 | Every time he removed his glasses to wipe the rain off them he could see that everyone was taking advantage of his short-sightedness to stare at him and grin and point . |
| 23 | Out of it he could see Barry , his bike propped up against his house , mending his chain . |
| 24 | Beyond it he could see the bright flag of a bus stop and the — bus shelter . |
| 25 | He put his telescope to his eye , and through it he could see the shapes of ten dogs pulling a sledge over the ice . |
| 26 | Now he he will see that the whole of that block is cleared . |
| 27 | Dreading what he might see , Rincewind let his gaze slide upwards . |
| 28 | He could not have borne a mirror in the room with him now , for fear of what he might see ; in his heart he knew that it would be unrecognisable , as he failed to recognise the turmoil of his own feelings as having anything to do with the self he had always known . |
| 29 | But he knew what he would see . |
| 30 | Well is that what he would see with you or would he just see what you 're wearing and , what would he see ? |