Example sentences of "[adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes — he will obviously see and know of the good points , but it is his job to find the faults and problems . |
| 2 | They can obviously see in the future |
| 3 | You can only see three of four fields and if they all look bad your morale will suffer . |
| 4 | There was a figure on either side of him but I could only see Charlie Vaughan . |
| 5 | And angry young men are just older men who have n't grown up and can only see one side of the coin . |
| 6 | Because they can only see what 's straight ahead of them . |
| 7 | The damn window 's wide open across there and I can only see the gramophone . |
| 8 | Gardens are enchanting at night but you can only see the one little bit near you . |
| 9 | If you are not prepared to project it properly , it is most likely that people will only see the wrong parts ! |
| 10 | I have to look after two dear little boys , but these days I can only see them growing up to behave so cruelly towards women . |
| 11 | You can only see the splendid tapestries inside by appointment . |
| 12 | You can only see your one match , only your two players . |
| 13 | ‘ He 'd tied a black scarf , or a stocking , or something over his face , and I could only see his eyes between that and his hat brim . |
| 14 | The manager may only see each volunteer once a week and should the manager be out of the bureau on that occasion , two weeks may pass . |
| 15 | He could only see how I had been , not how I was . |
| 16 | They had to take their places on a enormous swing ; once seated it was lowered from the flies until the audience could only see their legs as they went through their act . |
| 17 | But Watson does not only see himself as publicity agent for his cause . |
| 18 | If a pond and beacon were both on the line , you would only see the reflection of the beacon in the pond if you were on the line too . |
| 19 | As a good friend of mine once commented , ‘ If man could only see his aura , he would never go to war . ’ |
| 20 | Naturally , I went to see Buckingham Palace , not dreaming on that occasion that I would not only see it again but actually enter the premises . |
| 21 | He could only see one ear , some damp hair . |
| 22 | This can be comforting to them to some extent , but what they really want to hear is that you will not only see that they are cared for properly for the rest of their days , but that you will help them to remain in control of their own finances and to be as independent as possible . |
| 23 | Lined up along the south of the field , the crowd could only see her left side . |
| 24 | But she could only see little Gabriels , wearing small red anoraks and sporting hair that stood on end no matter how she tried to brush it down . |
| 25 | Gabriel and I saved you from falling into your own image , if you could only see . |
| 26 | Now , in 1805 , he can only see ‘ glimpses ’ , and fears that in old age nothing will be left . |
| 27 | and could only see a turn-up |
| 28 | They could only see an obdurate , ungrateful son , old enough to know better , selfishly concerned with his own desires and no one else 's . |
| 29 | Granny was seated in her rocking chair facing the fireplace , but her back was to me and I could only see the paper curlers she had in her hair . |
| 30 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |