Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [adv] see [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The imaginative may not unreasonably see in these actions the source of communal meal-taking in man and its importance to social life and ritual . |
| 2 | As we came upon the moving picture with its ability not only to entertain us but also to analyse what we could not easily see with the unaided eye , we began to recognize that we had new tools for discovery ; we now knew exactly how a horse used its feet in galloping , what an explosion was like in slow motion , what a street looked like to the condensed eye of the time-lapse camera . |
| 3 | You could n't hardly see across the room sometimes . |
| 4 | He could n't really see without his glasses on . |
| 5 | Could n't really see in the corner whether it was going , so tight . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | In 1951 ‘ he was so excited that all he could say was ‘ It 's a desperately close race — I ca n't quite see from here who is ahead — it 's either Oxford or Cambridge ’ . |
| 8 | Do you know y y you , it 's a different aspect , you go out here and all you see everything at ground level and you ca n't really see on top of everything |
| 9 | I could n't , you ca n't really see on it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |