Example sentences of "could [not/n't] see [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maggie 's face flushed hotly and she was glad that Ana could not see her at that moment . |
| 2 | I moved round to the other windows , but I could not see her in any of the rooms . |
| 3 | She could not see him in any such clear moralistic light . |
| 4 | It bothered him to let her go like this , but she 'd insisted ; for a while he could n't see her at all , until she reached the skyline and stopped for a moment . |
| 5 | I wriggled until I could peer over the edge into the wet depths below and I could n't see him at all . |
| 6 | Edge on , you could n't see it at all . |
| 7 | There is a rather improbable story that , when Captain cook first sailed into Botany Bay , Australia , the size of his ship was so far beyond anything that the local aborigines had ever seen that they could n't see it at all . |
| 8 | But he could n't see it like that . |