Example sentences of "could see in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could see in his eyes that he knew . |
| 2 | His trip here was a homecoming , and there were times when I could see in his eyes that he was reliving his first memories . |
| 3 | Anybody with a tape measure could see in a matter of minutes that the figures on these marbles have nothing whatever in common with the Greeks of today who , short-legged and stocky with low-slung , hairy bottoms , blunt noses and crossed eyebrows , are plainly a race of Turkic origin . |
| 4 | He could see in Mariana 's eyes that her thoughts mirrored his own . |
| 5 | His quarry crouched on a rock at the apex of a slight bend in the track from whence he could see in both directions . |
| 6 | The great train was standing there , faintly hissing , silver , immensely heavy , stretching away in both directions for as far as one could see in the gloom . |
| 7 | She could see in its eyes — intelligence . |
| 8 | What little hair he had shone with a silver sheen in the lamplight and she could see in the crumpled , brick-red face , the likeness of Stephen . |
| 9 | Mother Francis would have loved that old cottage to be Eve 's home ; she could see in her mind 's eye a kind of life where Eve would bring her student friends home from university to stay there for weekends , and they would call at the convent and have tea in the parlour . |
| 10 | As the cars lined up on the grid , Andretti on pole , Hunt alongside him , Pete Lyons wrote a wonderful paragraph which said it all : the mechanics drilling holes in Hunt 's visor so that he could see in the mist . |
| 11 | They land in a field among crop circles ( they bought crop circle footage off National Geographic , and when they watched it the only car you could see in it was — synchronicity ! — a red station wagon … ) and then pick up a hitch-hiking alien . |
| 12 | For example , the Oracle might say , ‘ I could see in the stars that the Feast would take in the foolish , I told my master to prepare for a great revenge ’ , and then have the Oracle tell the adventurers the story of the Poison Feast from the Drachenfels novel in full , if the players have n't read that book . |
| 13 | But in spite of everything perhaps it was just as well that none of the things they could see … none of the plump fish or chickens being toasted on skewers , none of the creamy breads , chapatis , nan , and parathas , none of the richly bubbling curries and glistening mounds of rice , which the skeletons ' scarlet rimmed eyes could see in their lenses and at which they glared for hour after hour that none of these things were available , for in their starved and debilitated condition it was very likely that a heavy curry would have killed them as dead as a cannon ball . |
| 14 | She could see in Mary 's eyes a gleam that meant she was calculating , not what she might owe to Alice , but what she was accumulating , of course at the moment only in imagination , for the purchase of their flat , or house . |
| 15 | It extended as far as she could see in all directions . |
| 16 | I could see in his eyes that he was wondering why he had been advised to consult such a lunatic . |
| 17 | The river — it stretched away as far as he could see in either direction , and could not therefore be a lake — was very wide . |
| 18 | But Lili , I thought , should have known them , must have known them , for if she could see in me something to address then she could see something in any human being . |
| 19 | I got up and went to the corner of the parapet , from where I could see in three directions . |
| 20 | He could see in a three hundred and sixty degree sphere via the pod sensor modules , just as he could feel the ambient temperature , and even smell the lubricant that someone had carelessly leaked on to the floor . |
| 21 | Staring across the glistening cobbles , all I could see in every direction was early Georgian domestic architecture … each house drab , but dignified , untouched virtually in all its details . ’ |
| 22 | The only sign of life he could see in the house was the white light from a television screen shining through a chink in the living-room curtains . |
| 23 | I asked them about the war , and they said it was okay , but you could see in their eyes they did n't mean it . |
| 24 | He could see in her face that he 'd surprised her , but that made no damned difference to Gary at all . |
| 25 | Under the black feathers , the lady smiled at her , sand Sarah could see in her eyes long memories of past happiness , past youth , past love . |
| 26 | Nona knew it too , he could see in her face . |
| 27 | She did a series of sketches , trying to capture all his moods , thinking that , though they were n't very professional , they were to her , because she could see in every one of them all those complicated , aggravating , irresistible facets that made up his personality . |
| 28 | She could see in his eyes that he would not be won over . |
| 29 | He had his eyes closed , and for the first few moments Belinda kept hers open , so she could see in extreme close-up the blurred crescents of his dark lashes resting on the smoothly tanned skin of his cheeks . |
| 30 | I thought Macao had greater sophistication — certainly the casino hotels offered a more ambitious modern architecture than anything I could see in this furred heart of a moribund empire . |