Example sentences of "you [modal v] not see " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Oh well , ’ she said , ‘ you may not see him again .
2 Note down any other changes you may have noticed about yourself , even minor ones — you may not see the connection but they may be vital clues to the doctor .
3 It is still very much in evidence , although you may not see too many garment patterns for it .
4 You may not see another Spring .
5 Another reason why you may not see them mating is that some adults can lay eggs without mating first .
6 You may not see a great deal of your creative team — many agencies take the quite reasonable view that the creative people should be busy making advertisements , not chatting up clients , and in one or two like Collett Dickinson & Pearce , the creative department holds itself superior and aloof and deals with clients only through its emissaries , the account executives .
7 You may not see it at the back there a lot stronger , okay .
8 You must not see all this as a Machiavellian plot .
9 This whole scale concept across the entire fretboard is a powerful way of improving your familiarity with the fretboard , although you might not see the full implications of this exercise until you memorise it in all keys .
10 Even for you the sun can cause premature ageing , although you might not see the damage until years later .
11 I turned away so you might not see ,
12 You might not see new vessels in the port , but their cargoes will be here , ’ said Mr Koornstra .
13 You know what it 's like to bear a child and bring him up and see him leave you and go to the other side of the world , knowing you 'll not see him again ?
14 You 'll not see it now .
15 And you 'll not see it next
16 And we talk about standard light bulbs — the idea here is that take a terrestrial example again , suppose you 're looking out at night and you see a light approaching you , if it 's a cyclist with a very faint light then you 'll not see him until he 's quite close .
17 By the time that you have battled against the wind to get there , you may find that it has some hazard that you could not see from a distance , and then there may be no other good field within reach .
18 Sometimes you could not see the food for the trees .
19 He was so bent , that when you walked behind him , you could not see his head .
20 For , of course , you could not see to the foot of the hill , let alone seven counties , under the stars .
21 The visibility was so bad even after dawn that ‘ you could not see your fingers in front of your face ’ .
22 They were the crowd whose heads you could not see over .
23 You could not see or hear very far through it , but it would be quite a supportive , cocooning medium — foams can be very viscous .
24 You see things you could not see before .
25 And Uncle Camillo in his armour with the lamp shining on the breastplate and helmet , and the vizor down so you could not see if he were laughing .
26 You were there , and you felt their presence , although you could not see anything . ’
27 Perhaps even more important is the inclusion of a preview facility since before you could not see the effects you had selected until printing out .
28 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 .
29 The houses were linked together with heavy fretwork windows so that you could not see the sky .
30 I felt that you would not see why I had gone abroad .
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