Example sentences of "[modal v] see [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The minutes of the last thing on the , and everybody should see who elected president , although some people will have forgotten , but I have n't . |
| 2 | If he walks off and leaves me someone might see me left on my own ’ . ’ |
| 3 | He could see , by looking behind your eyeballs , into the back of your eyes where the quiet incandescent space of the soul hung ; he might see it spotted with sins like trampled snow . |
| 4 | ‘ And if that happens , I 'll see you fed to Sobek 's children . ’ |
| 5 | Either that , or he 'll see you moved somewhere else out of your brother 's room . ’ |
| 6 | you 'll see I had to calculate parabola , |
| 7 | Elsewhere you may see it graded at E1 5b , but in my opinion its crux alone warrants E2 and 5c : an assessment made even without taking into account the remaining 700′ , containing at least four pitches of 5b climbing . |
| 8 | Let's see what offered . ’ |
| 9 | Let's see she said , th when 's the first when 's your first booking ? |
| 10 | As far as Maxim could see nobody followed George through the fading damp light back to Albany , although there was no way to be sure and less way of knowing if he was followed himself not over such a short and crowded distance . |
| 11 | I found the door unlocked as I had given my master the key before I left ; the light was poor but I could see nothing had been disturbed so lay down on the bed , pulling the curtains around me . |
| 12 | As far as she could see nothing had been taken but then she was not exactly sure of all their contents . |
| 13 | Even in my befuddled state I could see they meant trouble . |
| 14 | I could see they had thought hard about this . |
| 15 | Their bodies were contorted and you could see they had been trying to protect their faces with their hands . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I do remember in Madrid , there was a crowd of teens , and I could see they knew her and were looking at her . |
| 17 | You could see they thought it was so easy : - ) This after a complete fluky deflection and an OG . |
| 18 | That at least had a light showing and at first I thought the rest of the building was in total darkness , but as I crunched gravel and got closer I could see they used extra thick curtains , maybe left-overs from the Blackout . |
| 19 | He could see they regarded Eloise as overreacting . |
| 20 | Another Orton diary entry referred to a man complaining about the TV show being a ‘ fake ’ — presumably because he could see they worked from scripts . |
| 21 | On the horizon , to the south , beyond Kaena Point , I could see what looked like a shadow or a cloud . |
| 22 | ‘ We could see what looked like a range of hills from our window but they 'd gone by the morning — nothing left but huge ripples as if a great tide had come up and washed them away . |
| 23 | He led the way about six feet further up where the path ended in a flat ledge , and then I could see what had happened . |
| 24 | She had been resting against his trunk and now he could see what had happened to it . |
| 25 | Immediately , they could see what had happened . |
| 26 | And Cardiff could see what had happened . |
| 27 | She could see what had made Caspar turn pale and sick . |
| 28 | Designer Daniel Andrieu was present as the concealing-sheet was whipped away amid a swirling cloud of smoke which hid his creation for a few choking seconds before we could see what had been achieved . |
| 29 | And on the floor Charles could see what had caused his fall . |
| 30 | I knew moving into her house would n't be temporary , I could see what had happened . |