Example sentences of "could not see [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eliot did not doubt the resilience or resolve of the British people ; but he remarked to me that he could not see a man like Neville Chamberlain coping with a major conflict . |
| 2 | A garrulous Welshman who could not see a beach without running along it . |
| 3 | The court also absolved General Jorge Rabanal , who led the operation , on the grounds that from his post he could not see the slaughter of the prisoners . |
| 4 | Pupils could not see the relevance of what they were asked to do and so lost motivation . |
| 5 | They could not see the glow of triumph in his eyes . |
| 6 | Unhappily , she averted her head so that he could not see the glimmer of tears that smarted behind her eyelids . |
| 7 | From where I sat I could not see the clock on the mantelpiece . |
| 8 | Most clients were too close to their organisation — they could not see the wood for the trees — to solve many of their senior recruiting problems . |
| 9 | It was clear that both parties were set on a collision course , and I could not see the possibility of an out-and-out win for Mrs Castle . |
| 10 | I could not see the state of the causeway . |
| 11 | She could not see the state of Eleanor 's neck because Eleanor wore the collar of her crisp white blouse up . |
| 12 | I could not see the cairn from here . |
| 13 | She told me later she could not see the point of such correspondence . |
| 14 | He decided to be nice about the whole business , though he still could not see the point of it , and offered to put the little biscuity things into bowls . |
| 15 | He was uncertain , and could not see the point of hazarding a guess before the forensic labs had reported on the pair of scissors . |
| 16 | That much of the population could not see the superiority of their society did not deter them : a workers ' uprising was crushed , the Wall was built , travel was extremely limited , all criticism rigorously suppressed . |
| 17 | How very odd that she could not see the source of the light , but could see the light itself . |
| 18 | Sometimes you could not see the food for the trees . |
| 19 | She had felt sad watching as Tallis had slipped behind her , a figure on the shore , watching with concern but without understanding , since she had failed to place her Moondream mask across her face , and thus could not see the woman in the land . |
| 20 | At first I could n't see a way of getting to the bus station at two o'clock in the afternoon because we were never free at that time , but my chance came quite unexpectedly . |
| 21 | Stephen could n't see a sign of its owner . |
| 22 | But they could n't see a boy in a red shirt . |
| 23 | For one thing , she could n't see a thing in the blackout without her glasses ; and for another , the uniform was n't half attractive enough . |
| 24 | No matter where I looked I could n't see a gleam of light . |
| 25 | It was very packed in there but I could n't see a lot of anything . |
| 26 | ‘ I looked at the walls in the Goldie boathouse and saw the names of all the crews and could n't see a cox with three wins on the trot . |
| 27 | Dougal could n't see a television in the room . |
| 28 | I could n't see the head of the column , only the swinging lantern carried by the leader . |
| 29 | Control of body roll is good , although we could n't see the advantage of manually selecting the sport setting when the suspension firms things up automatically at higher speeds . |
| 30 | He looked up , but even now he could n't see the top of the giant tree . |