Example sentences of "[vb mod] n't see [pers pn] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said , well I could n't see her very well . |
| 2 | ‘ I could n't see him well enough . ’ |
| 3 | She could n't see him too clearly , but it was Adam , was n't it ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He was in the shadow , I could n't see him very well . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I ca n't see ye too well . ’ |
| 9 | You ca n't see them very well . . |
| 10 | I ca n't see you very well anyway , but I 'm going to turn around , and count to two hundred . |
| 11 | But you ca n't see it properly here . |
| 12 | I try and find the fag packet , but I ca n't see it no more . |
| 13 | I ca n't see it as clearly as that — and perhaps it 's better not to see clearly — ’ |
| 14 | Erm it 's quite regular I know , but some years you just ca n't see it very well . |
| 15 | Of one such ship her rivals would say , as she drew ahead , ‘ They 've unscrewed the beams and we sha n't see her again today . ’ |