Example sentences of "could see " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I wrote to you at the time ( since you refused even then to see me or any of your old friends and supporters ) I accepted the MS as a sacred trust and would do what I could to see that it eventually saw the light of day in the most appropriate form . |
| 2 | The two young girls , I predicted , would not find such changes so difficult to accommodate , but I did all I could to see that Mrs Clements suffered the least adjustments , to the extent that I undertook for myself a number of duties which you may consider most broad-minded of a butler to do . |
| 3 | And Phil promised he would make as many trips as he could to see the lads in the red and white . |
| 4 | The ‘ magic ’ medium in this endearing space-hopper device is Siporax , claimed to work wonders in nitrate-removal , though my levels stuck resolutely at 30ppm and all I could seen in terms of visual improvement was a better class of blanketweed : sort of lusher , nar mean ? |
| 5 | This could seen as a graphical art exercise achieved by astute utilisation of a drawing package . |
| 6 | She could see him through the shutters — a big man , a Berber , a kind-looking man with bright blue eyes and tattoos . |
| 7 | So high that you could see everything . |
| 8 | Endless , he wrote , because I could see no end to them and because I could envisage no beginning . |
| 9 | For some reason I could n't , though I could see it was that which infuriated her more than anything . |
| 10 | I could see it in his eyes . |
| 11 | She had spotted the cigarette smoke from afar and now she could see his feet protruding from under the canvas . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ He said he could see I was a young man with all his wits about him . ’ |
| 14 | This much I could see from the outside when I went down to have a look at it . |
| 15 | I went in , explained the position I was in and asked if I could see one of the rooms . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I could see in his eyes that he knew . |
| 18 | Out of the window I could see darkness falling . |
| 19 | I could see an idea coming into Kathleen 's head . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She looked at it and could see no fault ; she thought of Lucy and did n't care . |
| 22 | From the front door he could see her walking along the road past the graveyard with three of her friends , their heavy skirts swinging . |
| 23 | If he could see the culprits ! |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Cameron was moved to deny the atrocities — he could see the doubts twingeing across Byers 's forehead . |
| 27 | She was looking at him questioningly but he could see she had caught his drift . |
| 28 | Outside , shapes began to materialize — heads , implements — they wanted to recognize friends but they could see nothing but shawls , cloaks , silhouettes . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |