Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] see the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And he certainly ca n't demand to see the child when and where he wants , say every weekend . ’ |
| 2 | I ca n't wait to see the video |
| 3 | Now she ca n't wait to see the end result , when Channel Four screens its adaptation of her best-selling novel early in the New Year . |
| 4 | ‘ I ca n't wait to see the house you 've rented for us . |
| 5 | ‘ We get plenty of people in here identifying cadavers — I ca n't ask to see the credentials of every one . |
| 6 | If we consider for a moment the extent to which the hero-kings of early agricultural societies did indeed come to play a maternal , provident role with regard to those dependent on them we can perhaps begin to see the truth of the claim that they became the heirs of the matriarchs . |
| 7 | It is almost as if having failed , the surgical staff can not bear to see the patient . |
| 8 | But I can not bear to see the stars , even though I know they 're there all right , and I do see them , because Tod looks upwards at night , as everybody does , and coos and points . |
| 9 | The French sneer that , because Mr Van den Broek gets on badly with his prime minister , Ruud Lubbers , he can not bear to see the summiteers running the show . |
| 10 | Another 20 who can not face seeing the area have been invited to the British ambassador 's villa at Kakami . |
| 11 | It has a hard fight ahead , one that the nation can not afford to see the BBC lose . |
| 12 | From here you can already start to see the rim of the mountains that enclose the cirque . |
| 13 | With the previous legislation , a third party , with the patient 's authorisation , can also demand to see the records . |