Example sentences of "can see [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Not like them , I mean , they can see straight into our
2 I can see straight through you by now . ’
3 But unlike on the Earth we can see well beyond the horizon .
4 The erm the first part of the erm the journey which I take every morning as you can see even on a nice spring morning fortunately , half past six , nothing on the roads .
5 One can see even from this very brief review that deaf children 's learning of English does not match that of hearing children .
6 A scientist I know is amazed how often his eight year-old son can see immediately through a tangle of ideas in a problem — the directness and uncomplicatedness and openness of the child is a huge asset which many adults have lost .
7 Oh no , there 's no need to have it in the dark , you can see alright with it .
8 From here , on a clear day , you can see right across the Moyle channel to Scotland , less than 13 miles away .
9 But mainly these diseases have now been er controlled if not completely eradicated and as a result the world 's population is er is likely to zoom up as you can see right off the top end of the , of the graph and we 're expecting something like eight billion people er and , and still rising at the end of the , of the century and it 'll be some time way into the next century before the world 's population actually starts to er er to level out .
10 Above right : I can see right through you !
11 ‘ I can see right through her ! ’ he might have boasted , if you had suggested the possibility to him .
12 She can see right through me , he thought .
13 ‘ You can see right through Doddie 's head now .
14 ‘ I can see right through your little plot , madam !
15 I have no strong views on the trousseau , but I wish they 'd show that famous snap again , the one where she 's holding the kid in her arms and you can see right through her dress .
16 I can see right through you . ’
17 But you can see right through the one , while the other … ’
18 I can see right through you both . ’
19 I can see right through the .
20 I can see right through that skirt , have you got a petticoat on ?
21 From here you can see right over the Solway Firth to the Scottish lowlands .
22 The components are of magnitudes 4.7 and 5.1 , and are 208 seconds of arc apart , so that any binoculars will split them , and keen-eyed people can see both with no optical aid at all .
23 And you can see more on the problems of noise nuisance in Oxford in the Tuesday Special , tonight on Central at seven thirty .
24 And you can see more about Peter Ellison
25 A number of black children , particularly boys , seem to lose interest in the school 's aims ( unless they are good at games , then they dissociate that from the rest ) in the third year and , from then , become increasingly seen as an anti-culture … probably the most striking manifestation of West Indian pupils , is just that group of large boys , and the sort of threatening physical presence , which you can see consistently around the school .
26 Not that I can see much after six o'clock or so , but there you are , we all have our little crosses . ’
27 Some freshwater fish can see further into the red or longer wavelength part of the spectrum than we can .
28 ‘ You can see better from the lower door , ’ I remarked , turning to go down the path .
29 Erm so you can see actually from this fact find , from the planning the future document , there are , there was , there is a particular interest to you erm are you , are you quite happy with the figures er sorry was it erm was it that you were more or less interested in ?
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