Example sentences of "[not/n't] see it [prep] " in BNC.

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1 We work all year round but ca n't work on the uplands during the winter months — we might not see it for six to eight weeks .
2 What was found tomorrow , though they did not see it for newspapers were beyond their means , was a further notice from Robert Asshe to the effect that he would not be responsible for his daughter 's debts .
3 ( I remember it well for the sun shortly afterwards disappeared and we did not see it for weeks . )
4 The hair on his face was untrimmed , and his nose had spread with drinking , but the weather-hard skin was not the skin of a drunkard , and if the hair on his temples was thinning , you could not see it for the leather fillet he wore .
5 However desirable it is that they receive training , many do not see it as a practical proposition .
6 When Ramakrishna saw Kasi the Holy City , he did not see it as a physical city but as the dreams and hopes of holy pilgrims that had fallen on the city , stratum on stratum so that it became a city of holy ideas , a spiritual city .
7 Although he undoubtedly did not see it as such , what Jesus Christ was really doing was fighting to uphold the Second Choice as specified in this book .
8 It is a powerful alkaloidal poison , but the Zande do not see it as an ordinary poison but as an autonomous mystical power capable of issuing decisions which are taken very seriously indeed .
9 M79 is in the same field with 41 , and against a dark sky there should be no real problem in locating it , though under moonlight conditions I can not see it without a telescope .
10 You may not see it at the back there a lot stronger , okay .
11 Though the hardpressed French could not see it at the time , something had in fact gone dramatically wrong with the meticulous German plans ; that is , with the Crown Prince 's plans .
12 Of course I did not see it like that at the time .
13 I did not see it like this at the time , but arched
14 I do not see it like that , and I am sure that the nation as a whole would not either .
15 Undoubtedly the parties did not see it like this .
16 I can not see it in ‘ Stitchworld ’ although number 177 has a similar sort of line .
17 ( Even if you see it in other people , you might well not see it in yourself . )
18 And you , A types can not see it in any other way .
19 He had set a pressure lamp on the Land-Rover 's hood before leaving the cabin but he could n't see it through the rain .
20 Close your eyes and you wo n't see it at all
21 But this sub-orbital capacity … no , I ca n't see it at all .
22 Edge on , you could n't see it at all .
23 I did n't see it at all .
24 And so as I grew up er they knew me and I knew them and I was to need one or two later on , for various reasons , but er you could n't see it at the time .
25 There is a rather improbable story that , when Captain cook first sailed into Botany Bay , Australia , the size of his ship was so far beyond anything that the local aborigines had ever seen that they could n't see it at all .
26 You did n't see it at first , but you saw if you held you head at the right angle .
27 Well you either put one bar on or the lot is on or it 's very dim like this is low and you ca n't see it at all .
28 Did n't see it with my eyes shut . ’
29 Oh no wo n't see it with that flipping big collar on my school shirt !
30 Yeah , we with this been ongoing , we 've given a hundred and fifty pounds to it , erm , well I say I do n't see it on the top one .
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