Example sentences of "could not see [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she could not see all the way , it was feasible that he was on a lower flight and she would come face to face with him . |
| 2 | He turned the newspaper over so that he could not see that headline and those paragraphs . |
| 3 | Huy could not believe that Merymose could not see that . |
| 4 | He could not see Dhani but calculated that he might by now be opposite him in the north transept . |
| 5 | She could not see much of the room because of how he filled most of the doorway , but she saw the glow of the fire and a glimpse of a baize-covered table on which were papers . |
| 6 | ‘ I could not see one of my own kind suffer , ’ he said , ‘ or leave her to be attacked by crows ’ |
| 7 | Willi had carefully seated Georg and Suzi on the same side of the table , but at opposite ends , so that they could not see one another and could relax . |
| 8 | ‘ I could not see such a large man mistreating such a poor little woman . ’ |
| 9 | Even so , he could not see more than half a mile in the Roxburgh direction owing to a slight ridge of grass and whins . |
| 10 | Lewis complained that he could not see any personal relevance for himself in the story of Christ . |
| 11 | They showed promise and were not as mediocre as all the other stuff inflicted upon me at Leeds , but I could not see any real future for Robin as a poet . |
| 12 | He could not see any but noticed a little bottle lying amongst his bits and pieces . |
| 13 | When Tony was seen in hospital by the therapist on the following morning he denied having wanted to kill himself , but claimed he was fed up and could not see any way out of his present difficulties . |
| 14 | I executed a hard right turn , but could not see any other aircraft in my vicinity . |
| 15 | It was found that although a four-week tutorial programme had been prepared , the children in the mainstream school were far more receptive and accepting of the situation and could not see any reason for delaying the child 's integration . |
| 16 | The thought of going home was for her the final impossibility , but she could not see any satisfactory way of avoiding it . |
| 17 | From the window she could not see any trees or houses , only wild land , which looked like a kind of purple sea . |
| 18 | First she could not see any mistress there at all and thought the girls were alone and then she caught sight of Mademoiselle 's head in the middle of a crowd of girls , what was happening ? |
| 19 | In the dark and freezing mist he could not see ten yards . |