Example sentences of "you can [adv] see a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well if you if you ca n't see a door from the road then that will be the ideal entrance I would have thought . |
| 2 | Whatever the reason , you will have to take my word for it that a hill-walk is still an exhilarating day out even when you ca n't see a thing . |
| 3 | You see the the inlet pipes and the outlets and this you ca n't see a thing of this , you ought to go and have a look at this place sometime . |
| 4 | You ca n't see a thing round that corner can you ? |
| 5 | which is the one , which is the erm like you put it erm , you ca n't see a flame like , it 's alcohol in n it ? |
| 6 | Alcohol burns and you ca n't see a flame can you ? |
| 7 | You 're so twisted with suspicion that you ca n't see a hand in front of your face without imagining there 's a dagger in it ! |
| 8 | cos you ca n't see a lot . |
| 9 | You ca n't see a proton because proton is too small erm the only things that you can see are microscopic bodies and again you only infer the existence of these microscopic bodies because you actually detect the light that comes from them . |
| 10 | You can not see a relationship . |
| 11 | ‘ And if you can not see a Merkut hand behind what has happened , so are you . ’ |
| 12 | You can not see a mother relating to her child , only the behaviour by which you infer the state of that relationship . |
| 13 | If you look very carefully you can just see a couple of little green shoots starting to come . |
| 14 | You can even see a Michelangelo sculpture . |
| 15 | And look — you can almost see a face in the lumps and fissures of the bark . ’ |
| 16 | They say you can still see a gap in the treeline where the Hurricane shaved the tops off what would then have been saplings . |
| 17 | You can hardly see a thing . " |