Example sentences of "see [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could see nothing except a vivid scarlet blur , the colour of a London bus . |
| 2 | Nails , suddenly awakened , could see nothing except the light . |
| 3 | She looked out of the window , but could see nothing except the darkness . |
| 4 | The causeway commanded a view of all this region of the moor , but once he had jumped down and was in the shallow bowl of Goughdale , he could see nothing except the remains of surface workings and the louring slopes of Big Allen . |
| 5 | At first she could see nothing except the river so many floors below them . |
| 6 | Minutes later , although we could still see nothing through the trees , we heard the dogs ' excited , nearly frantic , barking . |
| 7 | She could see nothing through the night — and hear nothing other than the sound of rolling waves — until the outline of the steep cliffs towered above her . |
| 8 | She could see nothing through the thick clouds of dust that choked her . |
| 9 | Again she glanced at the windscreen of the other car but she could see nothing through the darkened glass . |
| 10 | He climbed the stairs but could see nothing through the hammered glass panels of the front door . |
| 11 | He could see nothing above him , but knew that they were up there . |
| 12 | It was pitch dark in the stable and , even with the burning sticks of jharo we 'd brought from upstairs , we could see nothing at first . |
| 13 | By the time the train moved off she could see nothing at all out of the window , she could scarcely see the window , so many people were squeezed between her and it . |
| 14 | He knew that the platform was there , but in the nightside blackness he could see nothing at first . |
| 15 | Sometimes you could see only his head or his legs ; sometimes you could see nothing at all . |
| 16 | And then , when she looked at the high terrace with its pots of trailing geraniums , she could see nothing for the shadow was so intense — not the pale blob of a face or the movement of a hand — but she was suddenly as sure as she could be of anything that someone was standing there , looking down , waiting for them to get out of the car and watching them . |
| 17 | Riven could see nothing for the water in his eyes , but when the dark shape of the hull loomed up he pushed Madra towards it . |
| 18 | They [ the Stationers ] have so pestered their printing-houses and shops with fruitless volumes that the ancient and renowned authors are almost buried among them as forgotten … so they who desire knowledge are still kept ignorant ; their ignorance increaseth their affection to vain toys ; their affection makes the stationer to increase his provision of such stuff , and at last you shall see nothing to be sold amongst us but … |
| 19 | ‘ I can go from this place today , and you 'll see nothing of me again , or I can stay . |
| 20 | The glass was a deep blue colour , opaque , so the outside world could see nothing of what went on inside the heavily guarded building . |
| 21 | She beat it down , while she thought , These two , we 'll see nothing of them , they 'll be off |
| 22 | Rostov peered past the screen at the porthole , but he could see nothing of the surface of the planet . |
| 23 | She could see nothing below her because it was so dark . |
| 24 | Outside , shapes began to materialize — heads , implements — they wanted to recognize friends but they could see nothing but shawls , cloaks , silhouettes . |
| 25 | I could still see nothing but the spirals of desert dust . |
| 26 | Mind , when I give 'im the wallet and 'e looked inside it , 'e was a mite more pleasant , even if I could n't see nothing but 'is mince pies and 'is 'ooter . |
| 27 | The interest which the remains of the Anglo-Saxon past arouse in a modern scholar is an interest in strange and beautiful survivals , in which Lanfranc could see nothing but corruption and lack of learning . |
| 28 | To the right , as he walked down it , he could see nothing but the trees of his own orchard and , beyond them , the decorative ridge of a thatched roof , crowned with a squat brick chimney . |
| 29 | Indeed , those Berliners to whom he spoke could see nothing but futility in an Anglo-German conflict over Poland . |
| 30 | Defries could see nothing but darkness through the opening . |