Example sentences of "i could see [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | For a brief and delirious moment , I could see no bar to our happiness . |
2 | I was concerned , but as I could see no sign of disease I decided not to interfere . |
3 | The door was still locked and , when I peered through the shuttered windows , I could see no sign of candlelight . |
4 | Perhaps it was a tiredness resulting from the previous 14 pitches , but I could see no way of free climbing it at less than E5 , and I was n't good enough for that , not now . |
5 | Now I know it was a great honour but I could see no way of accepting , so I put it on the mantelpiece and more or less prepared to forget all about it . |
6 | Their rule is perfect and effective at the practical level , but I could see no way of passing its benefits on , of helping or involving others . |
7 | Often I could see no connection between a remark made by one person and the reply given by another . |
8 | I could see no limit to the desolation ahead . |
9 | I could see no reason for panic . |
10 | At that moment I could see no reason for ever wanting to leave Koraloona . |
11 | I could see no reason for keeping me alive . |
12 | Endless , he wrote , because I could see no end to them and because I could envisage no beginning . |
13 | Such intimacy as life with my mother entailed should cease with parturition , and since Syl so resembled her in his attitude to me I could see no end to my continued childhood . |
14 | I did at one stage : I could see no point in living and I believed death would be an easier option . |
15 | I could see no point in the takeover either for Andrew Stavanger personally , or for the T. and T. company . |
16 | All the time Lucille was talking , my mind was covering the side roads , and I could see a glimmering in the distance that might be the approach of daylight . |
17 | As the pod slowed and the atmosphere-burn began to fade , I could see a sprawl of hazy lights coming up fast . |
18 | He was still reading , and writing , and soon I could see a change in him . |
19 | Walking along the riverbank or lakeside , I could see a variety of waterfowl , such as moorhens , seagulls and ducks ; up in the trees were virtually the entire crow family — jays , rooks and jackdaws — as well as blackbirds , thrushes , finches , all the everyday birds . |
20 | I could see a bit of the drive through the rhododendron bushes and the trees . |
21 | Sarah 's house was at the other end of it and I could see a couple of cars parked outside what I was sure was their home . |
22 | In the deck well I could see a couple of girls and two men in bathing suits . |
23 | Through the raindrops which were snail-trailing across my visor as I accelerated , I could see a marshal on the start/finish line flapping his yellow flag at me and screwing a finger at his temple . |
24 | I could see a sort of Army bed . |
25 | Over the edge , I could see a shop in the street below , a single room like an open cave , where an old man with white hair stood behind a counter that held a pair of scales and boxes of eggs and seeds . |
26 | ’ I could see a woman in her late twenties . |
27 | In my mirror I could see a woman in the car as well . |
28 | At the far end of the street , where the beach curved into an arc — and where the water was far enough away from the slops of Main Street — there on my right I could see a grove of coconut palms behind the beach , almost bending over the sand like a canopy as they leaned against the trade winds . |
29 | I could see a lot of people walking quickly . |
30 | I could see a bin from where I was sitting : it was made of wooden slats with a red-painted metal bin inside . |