Example sentences of "[conj] you could see " in BNC.
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| 1 | 75 V Street was a black door with a small glass panel at head height where you could see your own face reflected . |
| 2 | She was a large woman whose hair was dyed platinum blonde except where you could see the mousy-brown bits growing out from the roots . |
| 3 | So high that you could see everything . |
| 4 | It was not all that long ago that you could see young men discreetly selling Bibles on the streets and they would melt away when the KGB , the enforcers of the atheist state , appeared . |
| 5 | What major differences do you have , as a couple , that you could see causing real problems in marriage ? |
| 6 | Few hours later he calls , we 're the funeral parlour , right ? he 's recommended us , we do the honours , bury them , ’ and his mouth opened like a grave , you could fall into that mouth for ever and ever , amen , and all those crooked grey teeth of his , no names that you could see , no names or dates , just blank , so nobody could find you , nobody could visit , nobody could leave flowers . |
| 7 | But Eubank had only harsh words for Piper saying : ‘ The only thing that impressed me about him was that you could see he was thinking about what he was doing . |
| 8 | It would , I hoped , create the illusion that you could see through the base , dispelling any impression there was an operator inside . ’ |
| 9 | No that was some drops of acid that you could see We 're trying to work out what the properties of this gas if you 're not listening you wo n't be able to do number four . |
| 10 | His head was long and bony , and so shaped that you could see all the contours of the skull beneath the skin . |
| 11 | It was n't until you actually turned the machine and and actually stared in to the slots that you could see the gauze . |
| 12 | There were still a lot of men about , and a few lanterns , so that you could see dimly . |
| 13 | I felt I should include them in the list if only so that you could see the limited choice at present available . |
| 14 | but er , er as I say while I was round there the new town was , was all built and er I found , we found such a difference cos I used to have to go into Old Harlow shopping , I used to cycle before I was handicapped like this , I used to cycle everywhere , and er I went , you used to have to queue up in Old Harlow for the shops , we had n't got anything here at all , no Stow or anything when I first , I mean when I came here nothing , it was just terrible terrible lane up here it was and all these were all ploughed fields and it was really terrible and I had erm , I used to have to cycle into the doctors Old Harlow , queue up , queue up at the butchers , queue up everywhere you had to queue and er , till they built this er the new , The Stow then we used to go to The Stow shopping you know which made such a difference , but er , during my say during my lifetime I 've so , so pleased when the new town came because I wanted to move back to Nazeing where I came from when I first got here because it was such a terrible place there was nothing doing whatever , you know and then I moved erm , as I say after I got round the front there it was more , better really , you know , with all the er traffic and that you could see people going by and that as otherwise it , it was monotonous really in Common Fields , you did n't see much at all there , but you know it was , I quite enjoyed it really , now what else have I got to tell you ? |
| 15 | ‘ You assumed , from the beginning , that you could see through me . ’ |
| 16 | In that you could see what was happening on the floor but it did n't show continuity of work which easily |
| 17 | Well I , I turned round and backed in so that you could see me here |
| 18 | Some wore only frilly drawers and black camisoles so you could see their bare thighs on which they wore fancy garters and suspenders . |
| 19 | There was one with a monkey in too , crammed in this little shell with the side cut away so you could see in . |
| 20 | He sa he 's just discovered everybody 's gon na be colouring in so you could see the deterioration in the wi |
| 21 | It 's a very long struggle for decent wages erm recognition at work , the same kind of jobs that men have erm it 's interesting the results of the Guardian survey yesterday , ten thousand replies they had , and there were a tiny percentage of women that earned over thirty thousand , so you could see that many , many of the job tops are still in the hands of men . |
| 22 | But there was n't much to fear once you could see the enemy . |
| 23 | The bright brown eyes rested on her and you could see written all over his face the jealousy that this girl , daughter to some man , was still alive while his child was gone . |
| 24 | The boy got up and you could see he was still nervous . |
| 25 | ‘ And you could see him sort of recline back in the chair … he was visibly surprised . ’ |
| 26 | And you could see an example of ecotourism and also check out Ametra 2001 — it 's a centre down there for the study of traditional medicine . ’ |
| 27 | All he really wanted was to be next to O ; and you could see that the whole time he was listening , watching . |
| 28 | Yes , there were bulges — and you could see every bulge , he was that thin . |
| 29 | Then one could spin it round when news , travel or holiday programmes on radio and television specify certain places and you could see where they were in relation to Britain and the rest of the world . |
| 30 | Sometimes she became childlike and you could see her at eight or seventeen or twenty-five . |