Example sentences of "[modal v] see [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Both sides like to attack , so we should see plenty of goals .
2 If you prefer a world of fantasy to real life , maybe you should see someone about it .
3 ‘ Talking of parents , I suppose you must see something of Kate 's mother .
4 The reader must see everything through her eyes , and , as I have already said , it is vital that your reader identifies with her .
5 I might see something for Jackie .
6 we might see something for
7 Bees might see nothing but 625 scanning lines !
8 ‘ I can go from this place today , and you 'll see nothing of me again , or I can stay .
9 She beat it down , while she thought , These two , we 'll see nothing of them , they 'll be off
10 You 'll see plenty of rats here , sir , but you wo n't see any ghosts — I 'm sure of that .
11 Moore remembered Mrs Dempster 's words : ‘ You 'll see plenty of rats , but you wo n't see any ghosts . ’
12 Maybe so , but IBM has n't exactly been quiet on the soap box either — look around and you 'll see plenty of advertising from them — which is where the ‘ better DOS than DOS and a better … ’ quote came from .
13 And over the next six months you 'll see everything from computers to paint-by-number books appearing on a beauty counter near you .
14 The glass was a deep blue colour , opaque , so the outside world could see nothing of what went on inside the heavily guarded building .
15 Rostov peered past the screen at the porthole , but he could see nothing of the surface of the planet .
16 She could see nothing through the night — and hear nothing other than the sound of rolling waves — until the outline of the steep cliffs towered above her .
17 She could see nothing through the thick clouds of dust that choked her .
18 Again she glanced at the windscreen of the other car but she could see nothing through the darkened glass .
19 He climbed the stairs but could see nothing through the hammered glass panels of the front door .
20 It was pitch dark in the stable and , even with the burning sticks of jharo we 'd brought from upstairs , we could see nothing at first .
21 By the time the train moved off she could see nothing at all out of the window , she could scarcely see the window , so many people were squeezed between her and it .
22 He knew that the platform was there , but in the nightside blackness he could see nothing at first .
23 Sometimes you could see only his head or his legs ; sometimes you could see nothing at all .
24 And then , when she looked at the high terrace with its pots of trailing geraniums , she could see nothing for the shadow was so intense — not the pale blob of a face or the movement of a hand — but she was suddenly as sure as she could be of anything that someone was standing there , looking down , waiting for them to get out of the car and watching them .
25 Riven could see nothing for the water in his eyes , but when the dark shape of the hull loomed up he pushed Madra towards it .
26 Outside , shapes began to materialize — heads , implements — they wanted to recognize friends but they could see nothing but shawls , cloaks , silhouettes .
27 The interest which the remains of the Anglo-Saxon past arouse in a modern scholar is an interest in strange and beautiful survivals , in which Lanfranc could see nothing but corruption and lack of learning .
28 To the right , as he walked down it , he could see nothing but the trees of his own orchard and , beyond them , the decorative ridge of a thatched roof , crowned with a squat brick chimney .
29 Indeed , those Berliners to whom he spoke could see nothing but futility in an Anglo-German conflict over Poland .
30 Defries could see nothing but darkness through the opening .
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