Example sentences of "could see " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could see him through the shutters — a big man , a Berber , a kind-looking man with bright blue eyes and tattoos . |
| 2 | So high that you could see everything . |
| 3 | Endless , he wrote , because I could see no end to them and because I could envisage no beginning . |
| 4 | For some reason I could n't , though I could see it was that which infuriated her more than anything . |
| 5 | I could see it in his eyes . |
| 6 | She had spotted the cigarette smoke from afar and now she could see his feet protruding from under the canvas . |
| 7 | You was big enough for her , I could see , but you 're only a baby still really. , ’ Jessie was crying now too , the tears swelling slowly out above the bags and pouches of her face and running into the wrinkles . |
| 8 | ‘ He said he could see I was a young man with all his wits about him . ’ |
| 9 | This much I could see from the outside when I went down to have a look at it . |
| 10 | I went in , explained the position I was in and asked if I could see one of the rooms . |
| 11 | Sarah 's house was at the other end of it and I could see a couple of cars parked outside what I was sure was their home . |
| 12 | I could see in his eyes that he knew . |
| 13 | Out of the window I could see darkness falling . |
| 14 | I could see an idea coming into Kathleen 's head . |
| 15 | Last September I visited a garden which was nearly a thousand feet up , and I could see that the gladioli , planted as dormant corms in early May , were n't going to flower . |
| 16 | She looked at it and could see no fault ; she thought of Lucy and did n't care . |
| 17 | From the front door he could see her walking along the road past the graveyard with three of her friends , their heavy skirts swinging . |
| 18 | If he could see the culprits ! |
| 19 | So Angus got up on to the rock and held his fist high and told young McCulloch to stand the hostages on a knoll where everyone could see them and called out the oath above the drone of the pipe : ‘ We do swear — never to swerve — from our present path — till we have cleansed the country — of this oppressive Act . |
| 20 | Now they could see the broad glitter or Loch Tay , and in the foreground their destination , the gable or Kenmore church perched on its knoll at the loch-end . |
| 21 | Cameron was moved to deny the atrocities — he could see the doubts twingeing across Byers 's forehead . |
| 22 | She was looking at him questioningly but he could see she had caught his drift . |
| 23 | Outside , shapes began to materialize — heads , implements — they wanted to recognize friends but they could see nothing but shawls , cloaks , silhouettes . |
| 24 | Against the broad yellow light Cameron and Menzies could see the officer in silhouette , walking his horse forwards to meet a crowd in the road where it levelled out after the sharp rise from the bridge across to Grandtully . |
| 25 | Young as he was , he could see the conflict she evidenced as an ‘ off-the-boat Russian ’ with the rest of Leonard 's ‘ classy ’ family . |
| 26 | Leonard stayed like Breavman at the International Student 's House , from whose lofty heights he could see across New York ‘ relieved that it was n't his city , ’ in the day wandering all over New York ‘ to stare and taste at will . ’ |
| 27 | Outside the kitchen were brambles and thistles as far as the eye could see . |
| 28 | Loud music flooded the room ; on the screen people were dancing , as far as the eye could see . |
| 29 | Now she could see shapes beneath the water ; now there were three , no here came another one — four — silvery fish dancing in mid-air on her line . |
| 30 | The cat brooch stuck out ; the bustier was precarious ; worse , she could see the tips of her toes so her shoulders must have rounded , her head drooped . |