Example sentences of "see very " in BNC.

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1 He could see very little , but the sound of their laughter told him a whole group of workmen had crept up on him while he was hugging the yard wall , fearful of the big Great Dane .
2 Without my glasses I could see very little , certainly insufficient to tell the difference between a good kidney and a bad one .
3 ‘ There was a time when we could look around at the Commonwealth , the Empire , other countries and we would see very soft markets for British exports .
4 You take them out to another place , into the snow , where the light is winter-bright and you can see very clearly .
5 They will find it extremely difficult going outside on a bright day and may see very little on a sunny day .
6 Without the villus a visitor would see very little in Wilpattu , though occasionally a day-hunting leopard will step out on the road , or a sloth bear stand 6 ft ( 1.8 m ) high as it reaches for the fruit , honey or tree termites on which these fierce-looking predators feed .
7 In the early industrial period , where there was an expansion of domestic industrial production , one can see very clearly that co-operative strategies were developed to ensure that the domestic industry was viable .
8 The baby was wearing a pink frilly garment on its top half , and nothing at all , as far as she could see , on its bottom half , but she could not see very well .
9 When you meet your agency account group , you may see very little of all this .
10 There in the darkness , the chicks can see very little of their parents , but they can hear them and they will follow the sound that they first hear during that crucial imprinting period for the rest of their duckling days .
11 The house was dark , and at first I could n't see very well .
12 The light from the top of the lighthouse flashed out over the water , and for thirty seconds she could see very well .
13 Her father lives quite close by , but they are not very close and she does not see very much of him .
14 Lucien could not see very far in front of himself because of the tablecloth over his face and was unaware of the bewildered and amused glances he received from passing house staff .
15 It was dark in the prison , and at first she could not see very well .
16 I ca n't see very well
17 I recently read the A B C of Homeworking , it was quite never mind , I ca n't say the damn word , I could see very clearly , the potential for injury and exposure to other hazards is frightening .
18 And if you do n't , then you can see very quickly what 's gone wrong , and probably where it 's gone wrong , as well .
19 I could n't see very well . ’
20 Evolution ultimately selects for the erm reproductive success of individual organisms , and you can see very clearly in the case of the T four bac bacterial that it is really nothing more than the temporary protein packaging of its D N A.
21 ‘ There was , ’ said Timothy West , a ‘ dark quality about him that he did n't let people see very much of .
22 Unlike Rousettus , which can see very well and which uses unmodified relatively low-pitched sounds to do a modest amount of echolocation to supplement its good vision , the smaller bats appear to be technically highly advanced echo-machines .
23 and it 's just a take on , so I watched what I said , but erm , we mentioned it , we , we did n't see very much about it we just said it 's coming up we 'll have , we 'll let you in for a full details next month so
24 Once you 've chopped off the top ten , there are mass mi middle , medium sized P L C's , the nine million to fifty million turnover er company and they 're looked after by some by major firms , some more often than not by the second tier firms , so we can see very much and we can penetrate those er that middle market situation , then these are the companies in the future that will er will probably be the big P L C's and also these it will be easier to get into these organisations er with the services that we have to look through to offer .
25 There 's a forest fifty miles off , it 's outside our window because it 's not in this room and to come a little nearer home ther there 's a campus outside our window but we ca n't exactly see very much of it but we know it 's there and it 's got some birds in it , it 's probably got some little insects in it and there 's a woodpecker
26 Well I ca n't see very well through binoculars .
27 I ca n't see very well .
28 That 's the little boy who ca n't see very well .
29 But you did n't see very much .
30 I ca n't see very well through binoculars
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