Example sentences of "you could [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last time Oxford played fellow strugglers Bristol City you could barely see the pitch . |
| 2 | You could barely see the barber jackets for the brollies … torrential rain and wind made the going heavy everywhere at Cheltenham . |
| 3 | When she was at the premiere of The Delinquents she was wearing this designer dress and it was black and cut up one side , so that you could just see one leg ; it looked awful , Some people only wear things because they have a designer label . |
| 4 | The fabric was so delicate that if she wore it without a brassiere you could just see the outline of her nipples . |
| 5 | Between the block and the house you could just see the walls of the walled garden , flint-built , crossed and coped with brick-work . |
| 6 | " Oh Alice , " cried Mary , " Oh Alice , " squealed Reggie , and they sounded admonishing , petulant , reproachful , and Alice fell , rolled to the trapdoor edge , caught its edges with her strong hands , swung herself down , to land on her feet by Mary , by Reggie , laughing and pointing at them , " If you could see yourselves , if you could just see … |
| 7 | I was saying , ‘ Just think what fun it 's going to be , following Cilla Black … ’ and you could just see him succumbing . ’ |
| 8 | The tide was already on the turn , you could just see the stone margin of the path they had walked . |
| 9 | Dorcas does n't believe in you , and I certainly do n't believe in you , but if you could just see your way clear to existing just long enough for us to find them , we 'd all appreciate it very much . |
| 10 | You could just see them at low water and er that was one of the danger points but I 've never seen ships coming close to Skerrymor at all . |
| 11 | it just stopped short of the window , well no it was quite short you know , you could just see it aiming for the window , luckily it was plugged in |
| 12 | You could just see him getting more and more het up but if he just sort of sat down and wrote things down what he 'd got to do and do , try and do them in a set order . |
| 13 | You could already see those vipers sorting out the Ambre Solaire . |
| 14 | His face had grown so thin that as he spoke you could plainly see the elaborate machinery of his jaw setting to work with all its strings , sockets and pulleys . |
| 15 | Among the celebrating parties , you could see … those that were cheering for la France and de Gaulle , others for Stalin , others for el-Hussaini ( the Palestinian grand mufti ) , but you could scarcely see any that were cheering for Lebanon . ’ |
| 16 | You could scarcely see anyone had been there . |
| 17 | He got his head so low you could practically see the cleft in his buttocks . |
| 18 | Gabriel and I saved you from falling into your own image , if you could only see . |
| 19 | I know that no harm will come to me — and so would you if you could only see him . |
| 20 | ‘ Ca n't say much about 'is looks , 'e 'ad a scarf wrapped around 'is neck an' face ; you could only see 'is hooter an' mince pies . |
| 21 | and that 's a bargain , and se you know these reps would come round selling this that and the other and if , you could only see samples after , would n't touch it with a barge pole like you know , yeah I 'll have that , that 's all but that 's because he had a good grounding |
| 22 | I had been polishing it for what seemed hours and you could now see your face in it perfectly . |
| 23 | You know how I said you could never see one — because it does n't give out any light ? |
| 24 | ‘ By the end of the fortnight you could certainly see the difference in the children and the orphanage ’ she said . |
| 25 | You could almost see through her . |
| 26 | You could almost see Colin and Mister C developing the same kind of double act as Flavor Flav and Chuck D. The prof and the prat . |
| 27 | Colin is the first to acknowledge that he really needs Mister C. It might sound a little ridiculous , but you could almost see them developing the same kind of double act as Flavor Flav and Chuck D. The prof and the prat . |
| 28 | When she crossed her legs you could almost see her stocking-tops . |
| 29 | He had missed her moment — he knew he had missed it — ; yet his eyes softened suddenly , and you could almost see the shadow fall from his shoulders as he twinkled down at Laura where she knelt before her dying fire . |
| 30 | And you could actually see them at it , the grease monkeys , with hammers and spanners , about their long chore of patient wreckage . |