Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] see [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could see Sister 's point . |
| 2 | I could see Xanthe 's face and the back of Mrs Young 's head . |
| 3 | ‘ I will see Paul 's condition before making a decision on whether to play him against Parma next week . ’ |
| 4 | I can see Doug 's fishing line bent like a hurricane palm . |
| 5 | At the same time , though , I can see Mother 's side of it , at least on this one point , for she has n't considered herself as being just a housekeeper all these years , she 's felt mistress of the place , and she 's going to miss it . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Well , then , ’ said Aline , ‘ you must see Humber 's angle . ’ |
| 7 | Now it may be a six hour drive from the Central Belt and a short one hour Loganair flight from Edinburgh but as you 'll see Katie 's destination is the last word in luxury . |
| 8 | If you look back to verse 13 of chapter 15 , you 'll see Paul 's prayer : |
| 9 | You 'll see Dustin 's acting , but you 'll never see Steve 's . ’ |
| 10 | She wished she could see Chambers ' face when Wolff-Dietrich , the werewolf king , carried the tale back . |
| 11 | From there she could see Barbara 's profile . |
| 12 | She wished she could see Bella 's face properly , but the shadows were thick and all she could make out was the outline of a head . |
| 13 | Through the half-open door of the coding office she could see Lofty 's back ; beside him Lucinda sat unmoving , her left hand relaxed on a dial . |
| 14 | Ajayi looked up at the door to the winding-stair expecting to see an attendant , but the voice had come from behind her , and she could see Quiss 's face starting to turn red , his eyes widening , the lines around them spreading out further . |
| 15 | She could see Klift 's body from the corner of her eye . |
| 16 | So I did say to your mum here you , you would see Jackie 's photo . |
| 17 | I mean alright , you can see mum 's point in one respect , because she works nine till six every day . |
| 18 | When you consider the ghastly , tricksy little triangles of thin aluminium section which erupt pseudo-picturesquely along the parapet line of many an otherwise lumpen modern block , you can see Soane 's point . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , I would predict that we will see Ray 's name in the records books before long , though , perhaps not until he turns the grand old age of 60 in another three or four years and can make a new charge up the age-group ladder . |
| 20 | Through the use of these negatives ( engineering and maths ) , we can see students ' construction of an identity as ‘ physicist ’ : a person who is not too remote from reality , but who is at the same time capable of independent and abstract thought — a point we shall return to in Chapter 6 . |
| 21 | If the inevitably deformed critics who admired his work — and the critics who sat with their faces pointing up at us did seem to have the countenances of gargoyles , while the aisles were crammed with their wheelchairs — knew of certain weaknesses — certain indulgences , let us say — they would see Pyke 's work in a different light . |
| 22 | He could see Steen 's face in its pained repose , and felt certain that he was up against a case of murder . |
| 23 | He could see Todd 's smile , could feel the gesture forming as the other man leaned forward very slightly and prepared to put the phone down . |
| 24 | The boy had his back to him but he could see Lily 's face and she was doing the talking . |
| 25 | In the abbey church of St Seurin at Bordeaux , for example , he could see Roland 's horn , the sound of which might have summoned reinforcements to Roncesvalles but which Roland , more careful of his reputation than of his life , had refused to blow until it was too late . |
| 26 | Later he would see Hugo 's Quasimodo as having a direct bearing on his as yet unformed philosophy of ugliness , and he remembered a saying : ‘ In my soul I am beautiful . ’ |