Example sentences of "could [not/n't] see [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you may remember when the flood bank was built the local residents were very disappointed that Lancashire County Council could not see their way to install a footway along or beside the flood bank . |
| 2 | He could not see himself chained to these realities for the next 40 or 50 years . |
| 3 | I was now certain that I could not see myself in any type of residential home in the future . |
| 4 | He could not see her hair , which was wound tightly into a turban of peacock-feathered painted silk , low on her brow . |
| 5 | Susan did not answer at once ; in fact , she was silent for such a long time that Breeze , who could not see her face , wondered if she had fallen asleep . |
| 6 | He could not see her face , since it was turned from him , but there was something about her that made his heart stand still . |
| 7 | The veil came from her head to her feet ; she could see out through it , but we could not see her face . |
| 8 | Gabriel could not see her face . |
| 9 | In the darkness , Cardiff could not see her lips moving , and almost shouted back at her : It 's your brother ! |
| 10 | She knew enough , now , to be aware that , although Johnny could see her friends , could talk to them and touch them , he could not see her world . |
| 11 | With her back against the sun , her face was shadowed so that he could not see her eyes . |
| 12 | He could not see her face now . |
| 13 | A love struck farmer 's daughter was told she could not see her sweetheart . |
| 14 | Its force among people lay in the missionary areas and the young Churches where Indians or Africans could not see what European divisions had to do with them . |
| 15 | The recognition of parents who intentionally harmed their children could not be easily accommodated within the understanding of what these services were there to do : the scandals and the subsequent enquiries revealed time and again that social workers could not see what to lay people was painfully obvious , and what lawyers and other professionals ( with the benefit of hindsight ) constructed to be their duty to recognize . |
| 16 | There was movement to the side of them , but I could not see what they were doing because of the size of the boulders . |
| 17 | I could not see what was happening as I was falling upsidedown and my legs obscured all view of the aircraft above me . |
| 18 | In the darkness he could not see what went on further down the line , but obviously the same problems would prevail there . |
| 19 | The rye was growing so tall that Sharpe could not see what lay around the bend . |
| 20 | Fleury uttered a curse and started to examine it , for the life of him he could not see what was the matter . |
| 21 | There being no mirror in the house , she could not see what her arms and shoulders looked like , but she saw her sturdy freckled hands fidgeting at the roll of material , and felt that the dress was laying a claim on her , like an impostor demanding to be recognised . |
| 22 | I could not see what had happened , as I was standing on the settee to reach into the tank ( on a bookcase ) and the Meth blue was n't helping either . |
| 23 | Frederica said she could not see what he was hesitating about , he must write The yellow Chair , it was alive , was n't it ? |
| 24 | Because I was less a true coward , a calculating coward , than someone so innocent , or so Greek , that he could not see what the war had to do with him . |
| 25 | Cobalt retorted that it was not an amusing thing to do , pointing a gun at people , and he could not see what Maurin found so funny . |
| 26 | There was so much anger in her she could not see what might be done with it . |
| 27 | In the shadow between the houses Owen could not see what it was but when they came up to it he saw that it was a man . |
| 28 | I could hear my wife , Sharon , in the driver 's seat of our Peugeot 405 but I could not see her because my eyes were clouded with blood . |
| 29 | She regarded the wife of former Beirut hostage Jackie Mann as a ‘ dear friend' and was heartbroken she could not see her before she died of lung cancer on November 30 . |
| 30 | He could not see her because the grey London light was all his end with a dab of amber from his desk lamp . |