Example sentences of "not [adv] see [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can now not only see why in such sentences one feels an implicit predication with respect to a support but also get a clearer view of why to is used before the infinitive : its role here seems to be simply that of indicating that the infinitive 's support is situated in time before the actualization of the infinitive 's event . |
| 2 | We can now not only see how justified this comment was but , in details inaccessible to Freud at the time he was writing , can determine with some exactness both the causes and the consequences of this fateful development in human evolution . |
| 3 | Dorothea supposed that change must affect even such trivialities as the uniform of waitresses , although she did not quite see why , and it was a note of uncertainty in an otherwise happy day . |
| 4 | They do not expect him to lose but can not quite see how he is going to win . |
| 5 | There were steps from one terrace to another but Susan could not yet see where they would lead in the end . |
| 6 | I mean th they , they might do n't necessarily see why it 's improving and what 's behind it , but their lot must improve if there 's industrialization and weapons and things to be made , that they they have jobs and presumably have more money than they had before when they were just sort of not doing very much . |
| 7 | And another thing , ’ she added angrily before he could reply , ‘ I ca n't personally see why Ana should interest the Press . |
| 8 | And if he did n't do that she could n't possibly see how they would ever see eye to eye . |
| 9 | I ca n't possibly see how once a week will be enough . |
| 10 | I I do , I do n't really see why any one person should tell another what it can and can not do ! |
| 11 | And ask them to take that on board , because I do n't really see why we should be expected to take on both factors . |
| 12 | I could n't really see why he was n't given the chance this season ( apart from the last mins vs Swindon ) , |
| 13 | Sorry I ca n't really sort of say I must admit I could n't really see why they should be like that really cos I mean it is a bit puzzling cos if they 've only just done anything , they 've only been tampering with this finger so |
| 14 | It does n't just happen in nature , and I do n't really see why women should be at a disadvantage , unless it follows in the tail of many of the other disadvantages , which are actually made by society and culture , not by biology . |
| 15 | And I do n't really see how Zacco or anything else is going to stop me . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , the JMP-1 has no input on the back and so in some ways it falls at the final fence , because I ca n't really see how you can set it up to work in a neat and user-friendly rack ; you 'd have to wire the thing up every time you gigged it . |
| 17 | I told Harry that I did n't really see how this could be resolved in your absence so we should just leave until you return from holiday . |
| 18 | I know you 're having some sort of big spiritual crisis or something , but I do n't really see how I can help . ’ |
| 19 | Could n't really see how there was a foul there . |
| 20 | I do n't really see how erm it is going to in any way weaken people 's ability to make an effective er objection . |
| 21 | There 's also another problem with land reform in I ca n't really see how they could implement land reform without reverting to similar sorts of they used in which is defining class distinctions and the chaos that that causes and the problems it causes erm it is almost as if , if you go back to erm settling of accounts |
| 22 | You could n't even see where you had to turn off into street , it were worse Saturday |
| 23 | Unlike media reporting of the actual events , ‘ I ca n't even see how it 's in the public interest . ’ |
| 24 | The lack of contouring presents no real disadvantage , though the lack of a ribcage cutaway means that the bass tilts slightly forward from the top , so you ca n't quite see where you are on the fretboard for occasional quick reference . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't quite see how , Judy . ’ |
| 26 | Peggy did n't quite see how when she could n't even say what the thief looked like . |
| 27 | Presently , he said , ‘ If it 's going to help , by all means interview Edna , but I do n't quite see how raking up the past , digging into something which might be better left alone , is going to get Celia over this illness , turn her into a normal woman again . ’ |
| 28 | I 've been thinking that you ought to get away from here for a bit , but I do n't quite see how I could leave the hospital just now . |
| 29 | With talk of sweetbreads and liver and fillet she captivated him — I could n't quite see how she did it . |
| 30 | But I ca n't quite see how to deal with it yet . |