Example sentences of "he could see [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Harry stood on the platform a minute or so later , watching the train pull out , he could see him through the brightly lit window , still immersed in his paperback , oblivious , it seemed , to Harry 's departure . |
| 2 | And once again his eyes flicked past my shoulders , as if he could see something inside the trees . |
| 3 | He could see himself in the garden with Fraulein Simonis , investigating those dark eyes at closer quarters . |
| 4 | To the right , as he walked down it , he could see nothing but the trees of his own orchard and , beyond them , the decorative ridge of a thatched roof , crowned with a squat brick chimney . |
| 5 | Rostov peered past the screen at the porthole , but he could see nothing of the surface of the planet . |
| 6 | The causeway commanded a view of all this region of the moor , but once he had jumped down and was in the shallow bowl of Goughdale , he could see nothing except the remains of surface workings and the louring slopes of Big Allen . |
| 7 | He could see nothing in the west . |
| 8 | It was n't as if he could see her in the flimsy satin nightdress , was it ? |
| 9 | There was a difference of course ; he could see it in the eyes . |
| 10 | He could see it in the man 's eyes and the manner in which his gaze lingered on Nona . |
| 11 | He could see none on the wall . |
| 12 | Looking about him , he could see none of the others . |