Example sentences of "could [not/n't] see [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could not see me behind the curtains , and clearly did not expect an answer . |
| 2 | For a second she saw a man on top of the rock , then she could not see him behind the waves . |
| 3 | The hair on his face was untrimmed , and his nose had spread with drinking , but the weather-hard skin was not the skin of a drunkard , and if the hair on his temples was thinning , you could not see it for the leather fillet he wore . |
| 4 | Though the hardpressed French could not see it at the time , something had in fact gone dramatically wrong with the meticulous German plans ; that is , with the Crown Prince 's plans . |
| 5 | Mum was pleased as punch when she found that Mary had bought us new clothes , but she was not so pleased when Mary told her she could n't see them until the day of the wedding and took them straight up and locked them in her trunk . |
| 6 | He could n't see him by the house or in the trees at the bottom of the big lawn . |
| 7 | And Miguelito could n't see him from the bank . |
| 8 | I 'd closed my eyes while she was cutting so I could n't see myself in the mirror . |
| 9 | Someone around her — she could n't see who in the dark forest of heads and frame-bags — was talking a different language . |
| 10 | What you 've got to rea no what you got to realise is the most obvious place for somebody would be on the bed but we could n't see anybody on the bed so the only other place is under the bed . |
| 11 | He could n't see anybody in the alley . |
| 12 | He had set a pressure lamp on the Land-Rover 's hood before leaving the cabin but he could n't see it through the rain . |
| 13 | And so as I grew up er they knew me and I knew them and I was to need one or two later on , for various reasons , but er you could n't see it at the time . |
| 14 | He just hoped they could n't see it from the stalls . |
| 15 | At first we could n't see anything on the white backing but then Eadred brought across a candle , held it near the page , not quite close enough to scorch , and sea-green writing began to appear . |
| 16 | At first he could n't see anything in the semi-darkness . |
| 17 | She could n't see anything in the corner . |
| 18 | He could n't see anything in the room and could n't hear any shouts or screams . |