Example sentences of "could see [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through the open doorway Culley could see activity near the pit , and shadows jostling on the walls . |
| 2 | He could see Donna on the other side of the barrier heading towards a dark-haired woman , whom she embraced . |
| 3 | At the end she could see part of the ward , a gleaming parquet floor and white-painted bedsteads . |
| 4 | He could see part of the canal , part of a garden , barges loaded with potatoes , a rear view of houses being pulled down by workmen , and in the distance rows of trees and street lamps , a complicated little almshouse with its gardens , and finally a grand expanse of roofs . |
| 5 | She could see part of Dewer Street through the half-open gate and it seemed to be deserted . |
| 6 | I could see mist over the forests below the mountains , and fog out over the North Sea . |
| 7 | He could see mischief in her eyes . |
| 8 | But , in spite of the stirring words , in spite of the cast 's cheers , Charles could see panic in Paul Lexington 's eyes . |
| 9 | We could see snow on the moors . |
| 10 | He could see sorrow in the dark eyes which glowed as if there were candles burning behind them . |
| 11 | She could see blood on Jack 's cheek and on his arm above the gloves . |
| 12 | She could see fly across his face a whole sequence of emotions and responses . |
| 13 | Still peering through the binoculars he could see movement on the other boat : two men looking ahead , one of them pointing towards The Abbott . |
| 14 | The door was ajar and Patrick could see movement inside the room . |
| 15 | An evening with a breeze ; I could see movement in the bracken that edged the track , and cloud-shadows moved from time to time over the sea-pinks . |
| 16 | It was the only way he could see Mijnheer with Danjit 's knife angling his head against the rocks . |
| 17 | I could see daylight through a keyhole . |
| 18 | And as he 's driven up at the back then he looked up and he said you ca you could see daylight through it so it was , was n't blocked by anything . |
| 19 | He nodded , his mouth a bitter line , but she could see acceptance in the way he bowed his dark head , and she felt deep compassion for him , for his wasted life and wasted efforts and wasted pain . |
| 20 | She could see Dreamer through his insubstantial form . |
| 21 | Thus Pound was quite ready , and became eager , to deliver a message , though with more obliquities and delays than the impatiently moralistic reader could see reason for ; whereas Eliot , true to his inheritance from French symbolisme , was sceptical and chary of conveying in poetry any message at all . |
| 22 | Short and chubby , he once said that he was the only senior Hong Kong official who could see eye-to-eye with the equally diminutive Deng Xiaoping . |