Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] see [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned her head on the pillow , so he could not properly see her face , only the Greuze-like line of her cheek . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He did not even see her face . |
| 4 | Leo , you must tell her that it is Doctor 's Orders that she must not look after her father any more — that it is too much for her — that she need not even see her father until she is quite well enough , and the doctor has himself offered to find a suitable place , so that she will know her father will be well looked after . |
| 5 | She had pulled her veil right over her face so that they could not even see her eyes . |
| 6 | I think you are men , as your fathers were , who will not lightly see your homes burned , your women shamed , your cattle driven off , your children taken for slaves . |
| 7 | But then did you ever really see your own sister objectively ? |
| 8 | You can also just see our guests , and , enjoying themselves . |
| 9 | It was the list of undesirable aliens who were banned from entering the Bahamas , and if my name was put on that Stop List , and if I was then thrown off the islands , I would probably never see my boat again . |
| 10 | He could n't know how tempting the thought of laying down her burden was , but it would mean admitting guilt where there was none — to a man who would as soon see her sink as swim . |
| 11 | The present arrangements , under which a defending barrister will often not see his client until the morning of the trial , is unsatisfactory in the extreme . |
| 12 | The second one : having got over the actual evacuation and the idea that I probably would n't ever see my mother again , being evacuated in itself was great . |
| 13 | I nearly fell over him and he turned round , but I did n't really see his face in the dark , or if I did , I blocked it out I was so scared . |
| 14 | I 've met her twice on formal occasions , but I am at work all day , so I do n't often see my neighbours . |
| 15 | Its applicability to the eighteenth-century novel seems , on the other hand , to be less questionable , and one can equally well see its relevance to twentieth-century writers like John Fowles . |
| 16 | Greg Carey was there near the door , and when he reached out to grab her arm , asking , ‘ What 's going on ? ’ she shook him off impatiently and did n't even see his face close and tighten in anger at her second rejection of the evening . |
| 17 | And we did n't even see his lips move . |
| 18 | He is ‘ a gentleman with a rather perplexed expression of face , and with very grey hair disordered on his head , as if he did n't quite see his way to putting anything straight ’ , but kind and honest . |
| 19 | She felt close to him , although she could n't quite see his features or his choice of clothes . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The vision of suicide has now subsided , because I can no longer see my broken body clearly on the dark pavement below . |
| 22 | His tummy had grown very large and when he walked he could no longer see his thin , mis-shapen legs . |
| 23 | Why not see your Aunt Maude ? |
| 24 | You can no more see its economic and technological wiring than you can see an electromagnetic impulse . |
| 25 | And Rebekah will never again see her favourite son . |
| 26 | But when they get a little older , they will cover their bodies up and the boy shall never again see his sisters ' beauty . |
| 27 | She would likely never see her sister again , so that in her mind she would always be as she had been on that last walk over the moor to Barnswick . |