Example sentences of "could see [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could see myself on the roof of our house , as , for the last time , I spread the couscous out to dry on a sheet in the sun before my journey to London : I could see the village below me : the tops of the trees , the minaret , the ancient wall which ran round my village . |
| 2 | The glass was a deep blue colour , opaque , so the outside world could see nothing of what went on inside the heavily guarded building . |
| 3 | Rostov peered past the screen at the porthole , but he could see nothing of the surface of the planet . |
| 4 | She could see nothing through the night — and hear nothing other than the sound of rolling waves — until the outline of the steep cliffs towered above her . |
| 5 | She could see nothing through the thick clouds of dust that choked her . |
| 6 | Again she glanced at the windscreen of the other car but she could see nothing through the darkened glass . |
| 7 | He climbed the stairs but could see nothing through the hammered glass panels of the front door . |
| 8 | It was pitch dark in the stable and , even with the burning sticks of jharo we 'd brought from upstairs , we could see nothing at first . |
| 9 | By the time the train moved off she could see nothing at all out of the window , she could scarcely see the window , so many people were squeezed between her and it . |
| 10 | He knew that the platform was there , but in the nightside blackness he could see nothing at first . |
| 11 | Sometimes you could see only his head or his legs ; sometimes you could see nothing at all . |
| 12 | And then , when she looked at the high terrace with its pots of trailing geraniums , she could see nothing for the shadow was so intense — not the pale blob of a face or the movement of a hand — but she was suddenly as sure as she could be of anything that someone was standing there , looking down , waiting for them to get out of the car and watching them . |
| 13 | Riven could see nothing for the water in his eyes , but when the dark shape of the hull loomed up he pushed Madra towards it . |
| 14 | Outside , shapes began to materialize — heads , implements — they wanted to recognize friends but they could see nothing but shawls , cloaks , silhouettes . |
| 15 | The interest which the remains of the Anglo-Saxon past arouse in a modern scholar is an interest in strange and beautiful survivals , in which Lanfranc could see nothing but corruption and lack of learning . |
| 16 | To the right , as he walked down it , he could see nothing but the trees of his own orchard and , beyond them , the decorative ridge of a thatched roof , crowned with a squat brick chimney . |
| 17 | Indeed , those Berliners to whom he spoke could see nothing but futility in an Anglo-German conflict over Poland . |
| 18 | Defries could see nothing but darkness through the opening . |
| 19 | For a time we could see nothing but high endless desert . |
| 20 | She did not even notice when Connor and Ruth took the children out of the kitchen , closing the door softly behind them ; she could see nothing but the hope and the love that shone in Ernest 's patient , trusting face . |
| 21 | Scott could see nothing but the curling black tongue of water cutting through the centre of the city . |
| 22 | When the door swung open , I could see nothing but bars of light , curving together like a luminous zebra skin high above . |
| 23 | At first , in the fading light , we could see nothing but the icy path , the snow-covered trees on either side — but then the flicker of a candle flame caught our eyes . |
| 24 | He looked over his shoulder towards where the school party had gone , but could see nothing but a flat field of windblown grass . |
| 25 | But , although Robert strained his eyes against the glass , he could see nothing but impenetrable blackness beyond the hectic yellows and reds cast by the candles . |
| 26 | There were tiny fields ahead , but Peacock could see nothing but hedges and trees . |
| 27 | Through Skogen she could see nothing but shadows of a summer that had once flourished in this gorge . |
| 28 | She could see nothing below her because it was so dark . |
| 29 | He could see nothing above him , but knew that they were up there . |
| 30 | She could see nothing except a vivid scarlet blur , the colour of a London bus . |