Example sentences of "could see [noun] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I could see Martina down the end of the passage , aproned , with plates in her hand .
2 Ace could see movements behind the windows of the shuttle .
3 Through the open doorway Culley could see activity near the pit , and shadows jostling on the walls .
4 The darkness intensified down in the wood though I could see stars between the boughs .
5 Lieutenant Gerry Mackenzie reported by telephone — the civilian network remained open long after the Japanese invasion — that he could see lights in the estuary of the Comoro river and a patrol went out for a quick recce .
6 He could see Ruth at the door of his office , frowning , shaking her head , looking back over her shoulder .
7 At the end she could see part of the ward , a gleaming parquet floor and white-painted bedsteads .
8 He could see part of the canal , part of a garden , barges loaded with potatoes , a rear view of houses being pulled down by workmen , and in the distance rows of trees and street lamps , a complicated little almshouse with its gardens , and finally a grand expanse of roofs .
9 I could see mist over the forests below the mountains , and fog out over the North Sea .
10 Doyle could see bruises on the man 's neck .
11 I could see the Wood to my right and way across the Paddock I could see Waters in the Shogun patrolling the edge of the Orchard .
12 And Julius Caesar stood in France in because he was in , the place he captured in France , and he could see Britain across the water and he wondered what the land was like over there .
13 Rabbit-runs tend to be bow-shaped ; but this was straight , so that above them , through the mouth of the hole , Hazel could see leaves against the night sky .
14 He could see Vasco on the street , fourteen years old , face like a guitar .
15 His cloak hung down like a curtain , and I could see streetlamps through the bullet holes in it .
16 Going from window to window , he could see traces of the woman Susan had told him about , but Luke Mallen was a ghost in the place — nothing of him to be found ; except , in all that stillness , a sense of violence .
17 We could see snow on the moors .
18 The door was ajar and Patrick could see movement inside the room .
19 An evening with a breeze ; I could see movement in the bracken that edged the track , and cloud-shadows moved from time to time over the sea-pinks .
20 Now she could see shapes beneath the water ; now there were three , no here came another one — four — silvery fish dancing in mid-air on her line .
21 She could see Dorcas in the back of the cab , explaining what various levers did .
22 He nodded , his mouth a bitter line , but she could see acceptance in the way he bowed his dark head , and she felt deep compassion for him , for his wasted life and wasted efforts and wasted pain .
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