Example sentences of "can see " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There is nothing I can do , ’ said the King , as she was dragged away , ‘ I can see those in charge , but it 's now in the hands of the Justice people . ’ |
| 2 | Read Ubu , and you can see the connections with Samuel Beckett 's Waiting for Godot , and Ionesco 's The Chairs and The Bald Prima Donna . |
| 3 | But , yes — I read plays and I can see actors in the parts — I hope I can see what is suitable to their personalities . |
| 4 | But , yes — I read plays and I can see actors in the parts — I hope I can see what is suitable to their personalities . |
| 5 | I can see him from the kitchen window you see . |
| 6 | I can see just where it will go , she said . |
| 7 | ‘ The marketing manager can learn how to take advantage of the growing database and the finance manager can see how to use the special accounting systems . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Well , you can see the colour of him , ’ Dr Padgett muttered to Constable Perkins . |
| 9 | ‘ She has n't got any extensions as far as I can see , ’ I said . |
| 10 | ‘ So far as I can see it 's practically certain Mr Merrivale was in there with her early on in the night , ’ said Ethel . |
| 11 | ‘ As far as I can see only Mr Merrivale is in the clear ’ , went on Mary . |
| 12 | I can see that I may have a little difficulty explaining this first part of my story , especially to anyone not acquainted with the often bizarre rituals of academic life . |
| 13 | I 'm glad you can see that , Dorothy . |
| 14 | I do n't know how to approach this , but this is me , Sarah , your pathetically vile big sister , not able to find the words , but hoping you can see what I 'm trying to do — what I 'm trying to say — and please , please believe me when I say that I 'm not trying to run away from what I 've done , but if I could change somehow — obliterate — one thing I 've done in my life , one truly awful thing that I have done , it would be this . |
| 15 | I can see this in my own case , where losing a job or a home has in certain instances reopened old wounds . |
| 16 | You can see him on BBC1 's Garden Party , Mondays 12pm . |
| 17 | Keep well away so that you can see slopes properly and , when possible , view the field from at least two sides . |
| 18 | On this high hill , the wind whips your face chill ; the wind drops and your cheeks are burning ; you can see the patchwork of seven counties sweeping and dissolving to misty far green at your feet , rising again to heather-blue mountains melting to pure white cloud . |
| 19 | ‘ I can see that , ’ said Dionne . |
| 20 | However , we can see a difference when we compare the two extreme forms . |
| 21 | So I can see if it looks okay . |
| 22 | Even I can see that he should have been implacable . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ As you can see , now that we have stopped exposing ourselves to Tramen-exhalation we have developed heads and can talk to each other for the first time . |
| 24 | ‘ No reason I can see not to try the goulash . ’ |
| 25 | It is impossible to deny that V has a different mode of access to the external world from BS , for V can see and BS can not . |
| 26 | As far as I can see , the only way to do this is to adopt a behaviouristic approach to this knowledge and characterize it as an ability to discriminate visual objects . |
| 27 | If , as I have argued , thought and consciousness irreducibly escape the net of physicalist interpretation , and if , as I have suggested , the external world must possess the mind-like property of generality if it is to be conceivable , then we can see that Socrates ' assertion in the Phaedo , that the world must be explained by reference to mind , was essentially correct . |
| 28 | Now such infants are too young even to organize a so-called visually-guided reach ( that is , reaching for what they can see ) . |
| 29 | An individual will get far more pleasure working his chest , his abdominals or his arms because he can see the muscles working and developing . |
| 30 | Conversely I discovered that it could cut with the disc flat , or at a slight angle , and I can see it having benefits for very fine work . |