Example sentences of "could see [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Noël Coward 's Cavalcade , for example , though Jack could see its merit , struck him as fundamentally cheap , ‘ a mere brutal assault on one 's emotions , using material which one ca n't help feeling intensely . |
| 2 | Meantime , it would greatly help if United Motors could see its way clear to build another factory in Ireland , particularly if it could be built in the South West , where the Prime Minister was having to face re-election in a year 's time . |
| 3 | She could see its possibilities straight away , something she had never seen in those gloomy other chambers . |
| 4 | Only in Wester Ross and North Yorkshire was there some doubt as to its usefulness but even here 48% and 53% of the respondents could see its potential . |
| 5 | As his feet touched the bottom he was thinking of the tanks the Allies had intended to land on the rocky promontory before him ; clearly this was not possible , for now in the starlight he could see its rock face was impassable . |
| 6 | No , she could see its face now . |
| 7 | It was almost dark when I found it and it was not until I arrived home that I could see its lovely design . |
| 8 | The tide was far out over a wide plain of sand but you could see its many colours silvering towards those reaches where sky and horizon misted together . |
| 9 | ( In the event , at the end of 1991 prices were weak , with Algeria 's Nordine Ait Laoussine on Christmas Eve predicting worse developments still unless OPEC could see its way to reducing output . ) |
| 10 | But I , I 'm hating , but I mean yeah I could see its cleverness . |
| 11 | From the front door he could see her walking along the road past the graveyard with three of her friends , their heavy skirts swinging . |
| 12 | I could see her English neighbour shutting her front door in our faces , and yet all the same we left the two children there , rushing away after I 'd pinched their cheeks to make them cry so that she 'd have to come out to them . |
| 13 | I could see her face very clearly in the wisp of cloud that was now making its way across the sky . |
| 14 | In the semi-darkness Mark could see her movements . |
| 15 | He could see her lip trembling and hoped she would not cry in public again . |
| 16 | Marie moved forward so that he could see her better . |
| 17 | The staff , too , could see her moves to stroke the dog and finally let me approach her . |
| 18 | From the window , she could see her friend , Florence Ames , filling the freshly-turned beds with rows of small green plants from the boxes by her side . |
| 19 | I could see her thinking , ‘ We ca n't send this one on a book tour . ’ |
| 20 | Andrew Carnegie , millionaire-to-be , believed his ‘ optimistic nature ’ and wit ‘ must have been inherited ’ from his ‘ delightful old masquerading grandfather ; ’ while the future feminist Hannah Mitchell could see her own dogged persistence in the extraordinary working energy of the octogenarian grandmother who was ‘ the delight and terror of my young days ’ |
| 21 | Behind this graceful form Martha could see her grandmother in a state of strange tension , arms folded and brows contracted in the effort of masking her feelings . |
| 22 | I want you to note that I am not singing just ‘ Take my back , because it is my best feature ’ ( in the mirror we could see her beautiful strong back in the low cut of the dress , and of course we could see ourselves too ) . |
| 23 | This afternoon — I arrived in Salisbury at around three thirty — when I entered my address in her register as ‘ Darlington Hall ’ , I could see her look at me with some trepidation , assuming no doubt that I was some gentleman used to such places as the Ritz or the Dorchester and that I would storm out of her guest house on being shown my room . |
| 24 | Miss Fogerty noted the clean duster folded neatly in the very centre of Miss Watson 's desk , the tidy rows of tables and chairs awaiting their occupants , and the large reproduction of Holman Hunt 's ‘ The Light of the World ’ , in whose dusky glass Miss Fogerty could see her own figure reflected . |
| 25 | ‘ You see , Inspector , you have to die because — ’ ‘ Elinor , ’ he could see her white anxious face now , ‘ you have to let me strangle you . |
| 26 | It was this latter statement that had got Agnes back into the house , because she could see her sister , in her present state devoid of any common sense , doing something drastic . |
| 27 | He could see her face in the mirror . |
| 28 | I could see her face now , Mum 's face , eyeshadow and lipstick perfect as always , struggling there in the thick slimy mud — gasping , sinking … |
| 29 | She tried to slip free , but he moved round so that he could see her face more clearly . |
| 30 | She was lifting her skirt as she hurried to him , and he could see her ankles . |