Example sentences of "[vb mod] n't see [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I always intended to visit him after the war , but you know how it is : things were difficult , I was confoundedly busy at the University , I did n't particularly want to see Viola again though you 've got to swallow the pill with the jam , have n't you , and there was no particular reason why I should n't see her again . |
| 2 | You could n't see them right if you were a few yards from them , but just the figures moving you know , and their arms going backwards and fore cleaning the windows . |
| 3 | I could n't see them either . |
| 4 | I know , but I could n't see them though . |
| 5 | ‘ Idiot that I was , I was crass enough to insist , since I could n't see her privately ; to push her into a corner and tell her … tell her — oh , lord , I must have been mental ! — that if I could n't see her privately I would n't see her ever again . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Idiot that I was , I was crass enough to insist , since I could n't see her privately ; to push her into a corner and tell her … tell her — oh , lord , I must have been mental ! — that if I could n't see her privately I would n't see her ever again . ’ |
| 7 | Could n't see her there . |
| 8 | I said , well I could n't see her very well . |
| 9 | He must have been lurking in the church hall , though I could n't see him properly in that dark corner . |
| 10 | ‘ I could n't see him properly , not in the dark , but it was him all right . |
| 11 | She was glad she could n't see him properly ; the face that undoubtedly matched these horribly sarcastic comments would be bound to make her feel worse than she already did . |
| 12 | Because of Steve standing in front of him Ruth could n't see him properly . |
| 13 | When he himself entered it he could n't see him ahead or on either side , although in most places the bracken and undergrowth was flat . |
| 14 | ‘ I could n't see him well enough . ’ |
| 15 | She could n't see him too clearly , but it was Adam , was n't it ? |
| 16 | It was so crowded they had to unlace the side-flaps of the enormous tent and raise them up so that people could sit outside the tent , down the sides , and though we could n't see him very well , we heard him . |
| 17 | He was in the shadow , I could n't see him very well . |
| 18 | But they 've got very very poor eyesight so although they could sense where we were , as we stayed really really still they could n't see us so we were quite safe but er we could n't go any nearer than about ten yards from them erm because there were n't any suitable trees to climb in case they started to chase us . |
| 19 | I think it was when he come back , I did n't wait , I just could n't see I just see , you know . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm sorry I could n't see you earlier , Inspector , ’ Nicholson said . |
| 21 | Meredith could n't see it properly in the absence of proper street-lights and wondered if it was Tom Fearon 's Mercedes . |
| 22 | Well it was once , once , I could n't see it again , but the music was beautiful of course , but then |
| 23 | People could n't see the danger we were in — in fact Lee could n't see it either — because it just looked as though his ball was in a sand hole . |
| 24 | I could n't see it too clearly 'cos it was at the other end of the pitch , but it seemed that Jamie had the ball around the right hand edge of the box and curled it into the top left hand corner . |
| 25 | But I could n't see it as funny at all . |
| 26 | It 's hardly worth drawing the cheques in certain cases and the capital programme , could n't see it actually when I looked for it first time , had to go back to the pink sheet and found the noughts , now we 're not as generous as we 'd like to be , but at least we try . |
| 27 | " Foolishly , I dined with him to make clear that I would n't see him again and that if he persisted with his unwanted attention I would have no choice but to go to you . |
| 28 | Five minutes later , without giving herself time to think , be disappointed that she probably would n't see him again after today , she ran lightly down the stairs and out through the front door . |
| 29 | ‘ She would n't see him before . |
| 30 | He said he would n't see me again . |