Example sentences of "[pers pn] could n't see [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Idiot that I was , I was crass enough to insist , since I could n't see her privately ; to push her into a corner and tell her … tell her — oh , lord , I must have been mental ! — that if I could n't see her privately I would n't see her ever again . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Idiot that I was , I was crass enough to insist , since I could n't see her privately ; to push her into a corner and tell her … tell her — oh , lord , I must have been mental ! — that if I could n't see her privately I would n't see her ever again . ’ |
| 3 | I said , well I could n't see her very well . |
| 4 | I could n't see them either . |
| 5 | I know , but I could n't see them though . |
| 6 | ‘ I could n't see him well enough . ’ |
| 7 | He must have been lurking in the church hall , though I could n't see him properly in that dark corner . |
| 8 | ‘ I could n't see him properly , not in the dark , but it was him all right . |
| 9 | He was in the shadow , I could n't see him very well . |
| 10 | Well it was once , once , I could n't see it again , but the music was beautiful of course , but then |
| 11 | I could n't see it too clearly 'cos it was at the other end of the pitch , but it seemed that Jamie had the ball around the right hand edge of the box and curled it into the top left hand corner . |
| 12 | But I could n't see it as funny at all . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm sorry I could n't see you earlier , Inspector , ’ Nicholson said . |
| 14 | She was glad she could n't see him properly ; the face that undoubtedly matched these horribly sarcastic comments would be bound to make her feel worse than she already did . |
| 15 | She could n't see him too clearly , but it was Adam , was n't it ? |
| 16 | You could n't see them right if you were a few yards from them , but just the figures moving you know , and their arms going backwards and fore cleaning the windows . |
| 17 | It was so crowded they had to unlace the side-flaps of the enormous tent and raise them up so that people could sit outside the tent , down the sides , and though we could n't see him very well , we heard him . |
| 18 | But they 've got very very poor eyesight so although they could sense where we were , as we stayed really really still they could n't see us so we were quite safe but er we could n't go any nearer than about ten yards from them erm because there were n't any suitable trees to climb in case they started to chase us . |
| 19 | When he himself entered it he could n't see him ahead or on either side , although in most places the bracken and undergrowth was flat . |