Example sentences of "[vb mod] not see any [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was more than well acquainted with Lubor 's proclivity to see an invitation to grow amorous where there was none , though since he could n't do more than verbally flirt over the dinner table she could n't see any harm in accepting . |
| 2 | Do you play sometimes cos you ca n't be bothered doing the work cos you ca n't see any sense in it ? |
| 3 | ‘ I ca n't see any sense in subjecting him to a hard race in the Gold Cup when I know that his blood has been wrong , ’ he explained . |
| 4 | Now I ca n't see any sense in throwing whatsit , the javelin . |
| 5 | You just ca n't see any good in Jeff because of Silvia . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I ca n't see any good in him because there 's not a great deal of good to see . ’ |
| 7 | He ca n't see any harm in it but when I 've found him watching blue movies , I 've felt suicidal . |
| 8 | I ca n't see any harm in that . ’ |
| 9 | If the parent feels they know a system that they have heard or read is successful , and if they try it out on the child and the child obviously enjoys it , if it becomes part of a game , then I ca n't see any harm in it , but I think the parent has to be scrupulously honest as to whether the child is enjoying it . |
| 10 | If the parent feels they know a system that they have heard or read is successful , and if they try it out on the child and the child obviously enjoys it , if it becomes part of a game , then I ca n't see any harm in it , but I think the parent has to be scrupulously honest as to whether the child is enjoying it . |
| 11 | ‘ I ca n't see any point in that . |
| 12 | the labour because erm I ca n't see any point in doing half a job . |
| 13 | Well you know really I ca n't , I ca n't see any point in staying around here myself , yeah , it 's just my mum really , if anything happened to her then I 'll move you know I 'd move from Newcastle , Stoke On Trent area |
| 14 | They had n't thought about that do you know , I reckon that Sister Josephine erm behind all this , she wanted that hall and she and Father used to talk about this you see they want to extend the church back and do away with the car parking area as well , oh that 's alright , but erm sort of ca n't see any point in it , I mean congregations are going down , they 're not increasing , the church is big enough for what is necessary I would of thought would n't you ? |
| 15 | ‘ Wo n't see any quarry in all this , ’ he said . |
| 16 | It is one sign of the rise of semi-literacy that the descendants of the nineteenth-century civic worthies who took pride in the libraries they opened genuinely can not see any problem in closing them down a hundred years later , or authorising the ruthless dispersal of their stocks built up during that period . |
| 17 | ‘ I can not see any logic in taking a bowler like Paul Jarvis . |
| 18 | ‘ I can not see any purpose in just saying no to every new idea . |
| 19 | Can not see any point in keeping this large number Soviet nationals who are clearly great source contention between Soviets and ourselves . |