Example sentences of "[adv] see [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The village was very isolated in the past , and until the road down into Curral das Freiras was built in 1959 , the only access was down the narrow , twisting , tortuous path which you can still see from the village . |
| 32 | After half a mile he decided to turn off the embankment and walk up the side of the next field and along the path at the top of it , following the horses whom he could still see in the distance . |
| 33 | It was , it was bad that she used to those draws that bad that after so long you 'd see him go all white and then you 'd gradually see round the crutch then so , more |
| 34 | ‘ We can no more see to the bottom of the next few hours , than we can see to the bottom of this river what I catches hold of . |
| 35 | He has an appetite for land and castles I would not willingly see in the King himself , but he 's a more dangerous man than the King . ’ |
| 36 | I think the introduction of this guitar is quite significant ; it 's fresh , different and just plain exciting , and those are three words you wo n't often see in the review of a new guitar . |
| 37 | Could n't really see in the corner whether it was going , so tight . |
| 38 | It would have made it more difficult , but the way that Maxwell used to involve himself in bulk transfers , you know and move , move two hundred pensioners from there to there and er no money followed and this sort of thing , I think that er that he could of quite frankly done exactly the same thing and we really feel that the , that the role of the pension regulator and the and the opposing role with I M R O that , that you really if we 're not careful , we 're going to put in another layer of bureaucracy and have a pension regulator who 's got the task of of checking a , a hundred and twenty eight thousand pension funds , when really there 's probably out of those a hundred and twenty eight thousand , ninety-nine point five per cent of probably being very well well run and , and quite safe and what , what we ca n't really see in the report is a is a method of identifying the determined fraudster at a at a very early stage , you know and we 're just terribly disappointed that er that Good has just thrown the whole of , of the matter back at I M R O who we feel have proved to tha that I do n't think they 're up to the task , I think that the that the whole question of er of the power of a self regulatory body which to us works on blowing the whistle , you know the whole the whole effect of a self regulatory body is that it 's members that it , it 's really like a club is n't it , you know and we 're all members of this club and if one of us er is gon na do something wrong , then the rest of us are gon na have to pay for it . |
| 39 | ‘ How odd that you did n't immediately see through a phony like Giles Denton , ’ he grated , totally ignoring her interruption , ‘ and after agreeing to take a cruise with a man you admit you hardly know , you end up in custody accused of drug-smuggling . |
| 40 | She could n't see to the bottom of the scree slope . |
| 41 | ‘ Just the branches … ca n't see to the end of the tunnel in either direction . |
| 42 | I ca n't see for a moment because of the crowd . |
| 43 | This does n't allow fine-detail viewing — the viewer ca n't see into the windows of homes — but individual streets , river traffic , troop or merchant wagon movements and suchlike are readily seen . |
| 44 | ‘ You could n't see into the office from the kitchen ? ’ |
| 45 | But I ca n't see into the future ’ . |
| 46 | I ca n't see into the future in the way you said your Aunt Liti could do , but I 'm certain of this , for I feel it in my bones . |
| 47 | The writer complained that the City of London ‘ is essentially blind ’ , contains few Christians and ‘ ca n't see beyond the end of its ( hooked ) nose ’ ( emphasis in original ) . |
| 48 | The worst thing was having to climb that damned ladder to the roof of Flying Control in a howling gale and lashing rain , to see how far I could n't see across the air field and to estimate the strength of the wind which was doing its best to dislodge my desperate hold on the railing . |
| 49 | I took you both in and , you could n't see across the room ! |
| 50 | A TRIBE of pygmies has been banned from driving after 37 accidents in Zaire — as they ca n't see over the dashboard . |
| 51 | Now she ca n't see over the weeds . |
| 52 | I ca n't see your house ; I ca n't see who 's having chips in Mario 's ; I ca n't see over the hill to Westlands . |
| 53 | Cos you do n't see through a joke . |
| 54 | Yeah , I said yeah I am , I said I 'm gon na drive up and see , so we got in , went up to Wendy 's , you could n't see through the door Pen , Penny and Kev said well we 'll drive round as well , I said well she 's had us up and down , cos one minute she was quite strong then the next she could n't cope , I said Wendy all I want you to ever know is that I 'm there , if ever you want me phone me , I do n't care whether it 's middle of the night , middle of the morning or whatever , so she says alright , anyway Penny went up , she said she could n't see anything she thinks she 's gone a bed and then me and Rudy went up , it must have been quarter to one cos I took him for a little walk and I got out the car and walked round the back and then , I could see her curtains were open and I could see a light on , so I went round the front and I shouted through the letter box , Wen it 's only me I 've come to wish you a happy new year , let's hope next year will be better than this one and she come to the door and she was broken hearted |
| 55 | It was tough on the aircrews though , going out night after night to drop bombs on targets they could n't see through the murk and the searchlights , but perhaps this very impersonality kept them going — that and the fact that they were young and usually had a few days between each mission when they could recuperate in the relative peace and tranquility of the English countryside . |
| 56 | For a moment he could n't see through the train of bubbles left by the spear , which hit the fish dead centre and an inch behind the jaw hinge . |
| 57 | If you ca n't see through the glass because of condensation , remove the lid for a few days . |
| 58 | I ca n't see in the dark . |
| 59 | I did n't see in the end . |
| 60 | Sorry I ca n't , I ca n't see against the window |