Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] see [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He began to talk to the Colonel with animation I 'd not seen before about hunting deer from helicopters in the South Island . |
| 2 | Ramsey did not see why it should not have a wider interest as in Henson 's day . |
| 3 | He did not see why anyone , even a wealthy mill-owner , would want to drive a horse and carriage backwards down such a steeply sloping yard when he could just as easily leave it standing in the driveway . |
| 4 | I did not see why he should have piano lessons when I was told I was too young ; so I hid behind the curtains and listened to what he was being taught . |
| 5 | He did not see why Burney need concern himself with dissecting the kidneys . |
| 6 | There was , Henry had noticed , a specially reverent way of saying ‘ thank you ’ when accepting a cheese and tomato sandwich at a funeral reception and he did not see why people should develop critical faculties just because they were swigging back a wine glass containing a fair quantity of the domestic bleach known as Finish 'Em . |
| 7 | The Treasury Lords regarded the rejection of Hall 's Bill ‘ as a virtual abandonment of the whole scheme by the House of Commons ’ , and as the site was now limited to that authorized under the 1855 Act , they did not see why the plan prepared for that site should not be used . |
| 8 | The Court did not see why the plaintiff should be excluded from testing the validity of this approach because the matters in question were liable to attack under other information-gathering powers in the Taxes Act . |
| 9 | Many Frenchmen remained suspicious even of arming Germans within a European force , and many did not see why the French army should lose its own military independence by joining EDC . |
| 10 | I was fighting not just for my own sake , but for his too : I did not see why he should not permit himself to love . |
| 11 | It is absolutely clear and I want to make it clear that we may not be doing anything tomorrow or the next day , we 'll all be , we 'll all be try to understand and determine is how we will deal with the issues in as and if traffic develops over the next ten years or so and that strategy will then form the basis under which we will try to resist city area that we did not see there . |
| 12 | He did not see how we could possibly do so under modern conditions . ' |
| 13 | She was longing for a drink — some of her emergency ration of scotch — but she did not see how she could have one herself without also offering one to her visitor , something she had no intention of doing . |
| 14 | Mr Onanuga , 31 , has told friends he naively went along with the story because Mr Newton believed it was good publicity for Thresher and his own branch , and he did not see how it could harm anyone . |
| 15 | Offers continued to roll in , some so tempting that I did not see how she could refuse them , but with four children now of whom none was over twelve , she was adamant that she wished to be with them , and this meant that we could move further afield . |
| 16 | This was the Luton Post Office murder , and although , in view of my long labours on the Meehan case , I had resolved not to take up any more cases , this was one that I did not see how I could refuse . |
| 17 | I did not see how he could keep it secret for much longer , but that was his business . |
| 18 | Feeling overloaded with routine and emergency clinical work ( there are no deputising services in Bassetlaw ) and with administration , he did not see how he and his colleagues could commit any extra time to assessment . |
| 19 | He was not looking at her , did not see how unaffected she was . |
| 20 | Except that that kiss and her response to it had taken her so much by surprise that , even in hindsight , she did not see how she could have forestalled it . |
| 21 | Mitch came back and Maggie did not see how Ana greeted him , but it was plain that he was restored to his old self , cheerful and easygoing . |
| 22 | The fact that he did not see how it was to be preserved was another matter . |
| 23 | What these critics did not see so clearly was that elsewhere customary tenures had so confused conceptions of ownership that a clear , profitable , and workable landlord-tenant relationship was difficult to conceive ; while in many regions customary quit rents gave the landlord little surplus to invest , even had he been inclined so to do . |
| 24 | The growing girl did not see as much of her mother as she would have wished and less of her father . |
| 25 | In the course of their work , which they characteristically , in the terms of their sector , did not see as collective but as a series of specialist contributions , they intersected and overlapped with other groupings and other classes . |
| 26 | He did n't burden the uniformed branch with his problems and he did n't see why he should have to listen to Camb 's maunderings . |
| 27 | ‘ I just did n't see why I should stop , it was too late . |
| 28 | There was an edge of anger in the song , as if she did n't see why we had n't understood it yet . |
| 29 | He did n't see why he should n't have a stab at the more serious mode of public address . |
| 30 | I did n't see why he should get away with it so I decided to make his day for him . |