Example sentences of "[modal v] see [noun prp] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , then , ’ said Aline , ‘ you must see Humber 's angle . ’ |
| 2 | Now it may be a six hour drive from the Central Belt and a short one hour Loganair flight from Edinburgh but as you 'll see Katie 's destination is the last word in luxury . |
| 3 | If you look back to verse 13 of chapter 15 , you 'll see Paul 's prayer : |
| 4 | You 'll see Dustin 's acting , but you 'll never see Steve 's . ’ |
| 5 | But first let's see Vechey 's corpse . ’ |
| 6 | She wished she could see Chambers ' face when Wolff-Dietrich , the werewolf king , carried the tale back . |
| 7 | In his mind 's eye Michael could see Anthony 's face inside ie , staring upwards at darkness for the rest of eternity . |
| 8 | He could see Steen 's face in its pained repose , and felt certain that he was up against a case of murder . |
| 9 | She could see Klift 's body from the corner of her eye . |
| 10 | From there she could see Barbara 's profile . |
| 11 | In the abbey church of St Seurin at Bordeaux , for example , he could see Roland 's horn , the sound of which might have summoned reinforcements to Roncesvalles but which Roland , more careful of his reputation than of his life , had refused to blow until it was too late . |
| 12 | From the other tables , Nicholas could see John 's face , red under its freckles , glancing his way more often than not . |
| 13 | Perhaps it is hindsight which has allowed us to understand fully the sheer technique that went into Bogart 's acting but many people at Warners could see Mayo 's point that he was just the type of actor needed to breathe life into the kind of story that the writers were making into a speciality . |
| 14 | Ajayi looked up at the door to the winding-stair expecting to see an attendant , but the voice had come from behind her , and she could see Quiss 's face starting to turn red , his eyes widening , the lines around them spreading out further . |
| 15 | She wished she could see Bella 's face properly , but the shadows were thick and all she could make out was the outline of a head . |
| 16 | He could see Todd 's smile , could feel the gesture forming as the other man leaned forward very slightly and prepared to put the phone down . |
| 17 | Through the half-open door of the coding office she could see Lofty 's back ; beside him Lucinda sat unmoving , her left hand relaxed on a dial . |
| 18 | I could see Xanthe 's face and the back of Mrs Young 's head . |
| 19 | The boy had his back to him but he could see Lily 's face and she was doing the talking . |
| 20 | If the inevitably deformed critics who admired his work — and the critics who sat with their faces pointing up at us did seem to have the countenances of gargoyles , while the aisles were crammed with their wheelchairs — knew of certain weaknesses — certain indulgences , let us say — they would see Pyke 's work in a different light . |
| 21 | Later he would see Hugo 's Quasimodo as having a direct bearing on his as yet unformed philosophy of ugliness , and he remembered a saying : ‘ In my soul I am beautiful . ’ |
| 22 | So I did say to your mum here you , you would see Jackie 's photo . |
| 23 | The new franchise system , which will see Anglia 's Exchequer levy soar from last year 's £2.42 million to £17.8 million , plus a difficult trading environment , would ‘ result in lower profits in the current year ’ , it said . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , I would predict that we will see Ray 's name in the records books before long , though , perhaps not until he turns the grand old age of 60 in another three or four years and can make a new charge up the age-group ladder . |
| 25 | ‘ I will see Paul 's condition before making a decision on whether to play him against Parma next week . ’ |
| 26 | Visitors can see Barnaby 's bazaar of teddy bear souvenirs or try their luck at the tombola , where they could win one of the teddies donated by a celebrity . |
| 27 | I can see Doug 's fishing line bent like a hurricane palm . |
| 28 | One can see Tolkien 's attempt to extend that tradition in the hobbit-poems scattered through The Lord of the Rings — or to be more accurate , in the new hobbit-poems . |
| 29 | When you consider the ghastly , tricksy little triangles of thin aluminium section which erupt pseudo-picturesquely along the parapet line of many an otherwise lumpen modern block , you can see Soane 's point . |
| 30 | Robert can see Henry 's star quality and has already aligned him with an animal talent agency ( Satch 's Animals ) , although his one date with the cameras so far — for a Lucozade commercial — was n't exactly a smash . |