Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] not see [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I moved round to the other windows , but I could not see her in any of the rooms . |
| 2 | He almost pranced along the passage with his pet and I hoped fervently that I would not see them in there again . |
| 3 | ‘ When she started staying with friends I would not see her for about a week or so , but I was not concerned . |
| 4 | Yet as our relationship deepened , you seemed to abstract yourself , and sometimes I would not see you for days on end . |
| 5 | At first I can not see her for the heaps of people about her bedside , brandished with packaged sweets and magazines and flowers of white and purple . |
| 6 | M79 is in the same field with 41 , and against a dark sky there should be no real problem in locating it , though under moonlight conditions I can not see it without a telescope . |
| 7 | I can not see it in ‘ Stitchworld ’ although number 177 has a similar sort of line . |
| 8 | You may not see it at the back there a lot stronger , okay . |
| 9 | For a second she saw a man on top of the rock , then she could not see him behind the waves . |
| 10 | She could not see him in any such clear moralistic light . |
| 11 | Before Jos could knock at the door , it was opened by a tiny old woman bent at such an angle that she could not see them without straightening up , her head cocked to one enquiring side . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But as you can not see me at present with any advantage to yourself , I leave for Tunbridge , my dear , and hope we shall better understand one another on my return . |
| 14 | We work all year round but ca n't work on the uplands during the winter months — we might not see it for six to eight weeks . |
| 15 | He could not see me behind the curtains , and clearly did not expect an answer . |