Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] see [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 You may not see it at the back there a lot stronger , okay .
2 He could not see me behind the curtains , and clearly did not expect an answer .
3 For a second she saw a man on top of the rock , then she could not see him behind the waves .
4 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 .
5 Though the hardpressed French could not see it at the time , something had in fact gone dramatically wrong with the meticulous German plans ; that is , with the Crown Prince 's plans .
6 Mum was pleased as punch when she found that Mary had bought us new clothes , but she was not so pleased when Mary told her she could n't see them until the day of the wedding and took them straight up and locked them in her trunk .
7 He could n't see him by the house or in the trees at the bottom of the big lawn .
8 And Miguelito could n't see him from the bank .
9 He had set a pressure lamp on the Land-Rover 's hood before leaving the cabin but he could n't see it through the rain .
10 And so as I grew up er they knew me and I knew them and I was to need one or two later on , for various reasons , but er you could n't see it at the time .
11 He just hoped they could n't see it from the stalls .
12 Once outside , she breathed a sigh of relief , and strolled with Theda around the left of the house , next to Switham Thicket , so that Araminta would not see them from the window of her parlour .
13 I ca n't see her in the dark , but from the hushed swell of her breathing I could draw you the map of her body .
14 ‘ I keep telling him people ca n't see him on the radio . ’
15 I 've looked with binoculars and I ca n't see them with the naked eye .
16 You ca n't see them in the basket . ’
17 They do n't er , you ca n't see them in the same way you could go and see your parents .
18 Well I ca n't see them in the negotiating when he knows what 's going on .
19 And whilst you probably ca n't see it in the air .
20 and the shops behind the trees is n't it bushes ? , you ca n't see it from the road can you ?
21 EE : Easy come , easy go — we sha n't see him before the Easter holidays .
22 ‘ You wo n't see me on the beach , I 'm sight-seeing ! ’
23 The audience wo n't see me in the sequence .
24 ‘ So we wo n't see you at the meet on Tuesday ? ’
25 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 .
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