Example sentences of "[coord] not [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back , it should have sounded strange , after waiting all that time in the gynae clinic , and not even seeing a doctor . |
| 2 | The owners of intellectual property must understand the problems of the users and not simply see their property as a source of profits . |
| 3 | Among the pictures are the only known independent self-portrait of the artist , the wonderful Suida-Manning ‘ Repentant Magdalene ’ , on loan to the Metropolitan in the mid 1970s and not publicly seen since , the ‘ John the Baptist visited in prison by Salome ’ , the prime version of a composition of which a later replica by the artist is in the collection of Sir Denis Mahon ( exhibited in London last year ) , and the master 's only known still-life , a ‘ Memento Mori ’ , from Feigen 's private collection . |
| 4 | Be very careful if ordering from a catalogue and not actually seeing the plants in full growth ; read the descriptions most carefully . |
| 5 | I 'm gon na give his lecture or his talk which probably means I shall get my my tongue in a twist an an an and not quite see where I 'm going . |
| 6 | The scaup in flight is almost identical but although scaups are common enough around the coast they are exclusively winter visitors and not often seen on inland waters . |
| 7 | Since fax and telex are treated as " instantaneous " , acceptance is only effective when received ; however , if a message is received on the recipient 's terminal but not immediately seen , difficult questions may arise as to exactly when the acceptance is effective . |
| 8 | For a start , I will travel and go places I 've not seen , and return to places I 've been to but not really seen because of the tennis . |
| 9 | She gazed around at the paintings which hung on the walls , looking but not really seeing . |
| 10 | ‘ Everard 's wife has flu , ’ Rupert explained , ‘ so we owe the pleasure of your company this evening to that rather unfortunate occurrence , ’ he went on , feeling that in some obscure way he was being complimentary neither to Penelope nor to the absent Mildred Bone , but not quite seeing how else he could have put it . |
| 11 | Then they were aware of something , out there beyond the benches , which they could sense moving silently in the mist , and though he strained to see it he could not quite catch the thing in one place , for it seemed to come ant go , larger than the bench and bin , looming nearer but not quite seen , dark and grey and pointing to the sky . |