Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [adv] see " in BNC.

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1 To grasp the meaning of a handshake we must not only see it positively as located in a greeting ceremonial , that is in a sequence of actions identified with respect to the social act they accomplish , but we must also see it negatively , as excluding certain alternatives and possibilities of action .
2 He may not even see me .
3 The opponent may move in and strike with a roundhouse kick to the head and the first-time fighter may not actually see it coming .
4 A director may have made it plain that he has a definite intention for a character , but the student may not always see this straight away .
5 The coherence , the progression , one can argue , lies in the eye of the curriculum planner rather than that of the individually different children who experience it haphazardly , often guided into a general context by the pastoral strength of their form tutor who may not always see the whole picture themselves .
6 Despite their greater poverty , lone mothers may not always see marriage or cohabitation as improving their access to resources .
7 The imaginative may not unreasonably see in these actions the source of communal meal-taking in man and its importance to social life and ritual .
8 At Feros Lighting , Parsons Street , Banbury , you 'll not only see the largest selection of domestic lighting in the area , they can also advise you on the best way to light your office , so if it 's one lightbulb , your whole home or a complete office , for the complete look go to Feros Lighting in Parsons Street , Banbury .
9 There were steps from one terrace to another but Susan could not yet see where they would lead in the end .
10 She turned her head on the pillow , so he could not properly see her face , only the Greuze-like line of her cheek .
11 As we came upon the moving picture with its ability not only to entertain us but also to analyse what we could not easily see with the unaided eye , we began to recognize that we had new tools for discovery ; we now knew exactly how a horse used its feet in galloping , what an explosion was like in slow motion , what a street looked like to the condensed eye of the time-lapse camera .
12 It did not matter that Ben could not physically see the pages of the journal : in his mind he could turn them anyway and read the tall columns of cyphers .
13 I could not even see as far as the mouth of the burn .
14 Perhaps you could not even see the windows of the School from where he was .
15 From their lofty height of existence , it was as if they could not even see him .
16 Charles could not even see the A.S.M. who was reading his lines , though he knew the youth would be keeping him in view to watch for signs of difficulty .
17 She could still see only his profile , and when he moved away , into the room 's shadows , she could not even see that .
18 She had pulled her veil right over her face so that they could not even see her eyes .
19 Like Tom , she could not really see Liza in the role of ministering angel , nor could she imagine her out in all weathers driving a tractor .
20 But she could not really see herself with whatever it was : vase , or rug or necklace , trying to sell it .
21 She spun round , but she could not quite see him .
22 Tom Tremayne had seen to that and Liza , irresponsible and hedonistic as she was , could not quite see herself leaving Harriet holding the baby while she went off to undertake some kind of training .
23 The crows attacked and her movements were strangely slow and disorientated as if she could not quite see them , or make her wings and talons move as she intended .
24 Where there had been three men there were now a dozen , although he could not now see Diniz Vasquez .
25 Would-be interpreters studying the music could not only see Elgar 's intentions in the printed score , but could follow the creative process a stage further — to the ultimate stage , in fact , and hear the creator realize his work in its natural medium , that of sound .
26 In the lighted deckhouse he could not only see old Willis , fiddling about with what looked like tins and glasses , but Janet , wearing her other trouser suit .
27 The body 's centre section is maple too , and you 'd not normally see that because traditionally it 's been painted over ; and the bridge is different , more solid-looking ; and the pickups … etc. , etc …
28 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 .
29 He has an appetite for land and castles I would not willingly see in the King himself , but he 's a more dangerous man than the King . ’
30 Naturally , I went to see Buckingham Palace , not dreaming on that occasion that I would not only see it again but actually enter the premises .
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