Example sentences of "see [indef pn] in " in BNC.

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1 Because they can see nothing in front of them but cooking and scrubbing and mending … and endless babies .
2 I can see nothing in democratic thinking which allows us to think of " the people " as anything other than the whole body of citizens , minorities as well as majorities , those who oppose and dissent as well as those who belong to the dominant majority .
3 I can see nothing in principle to prevent a contemnor applying to the first instance court to be released from custody on the ground that the failure to serve him with the committal order has kept him in ignorance of the contempts for which he has been imprisoned and that , in the circumstances , justice requires his release .
4 Here again , provided the driver has such an opportunity , I can see nothing in the language of the statute which would justify a procedural requirement that the driver be invited to express his own preference for giving blood or urine , either before a constable indicates which specimen he will require or at all .
5 I can see nothing in section 61 to suggest that these trust provisions apply only if the trust existed at the time the deposit was made .
6 They could see nothing in front of them .
7 He could see nothing in the west .
8 Yet she could see nothing in the future but hurt for both of them .
9 Did you see someone in uniform ? ’
10 I do n't see one in this room . ’
11 Bryony says she can see one in the sky .
12 I can see one in a big lump .
13 At least that 's the way it is with me , if I can see something in operation I can understand it far more quickly than when someone tries to describe it ’
14 If viewing was considered by the week , however , TV was virtually universal : barely one person in twenty did not see something in an average week in 1986 ( BBC , 1986 ) .
15 I can see something in here you 've got
16 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 .
17 " Did n't I see something in the paper about one of them sinking ?
18 Yet I was n't imagining it , I did see something in his expression — Her shoulders slumped .
19 He could n't see anybody in the alley .
20 Well then I certainly did n't see anybody in there looking like that .
21 Did you see anyone in the bed ?
22 When these far from straightforward issues have eventually been resolved , the draft will be subject to public comments ( six months ) , then committee revision ( say nine months ) — and , finally , it will take about a year before specifiers can see anything in print .
23 I could n't see anything in it .
24 He can never see anything in front of him because of all the smoke he belches out from his nose and mouth , but that does n't bother him .
25 At first he could n't see anything in the semi-darkness .
26 ‘ I do n't see anything in Finn , ’ said Lydia , who had found Finn 's terrible reputation one of his greatest attractions .
27 She could n't see anything in the corner .
28 He could n't see anything in the room and could n't hear any shouts or screams .
29 I would like to say that there have been no negotiations with British Coal erm in relation to this objection as the application is currently in abeyance as it 's obviously subject to a section fourteen direction , but I do n't see anything in there erm which erm alters the the general conclusions er that I 've put in my supplementary paper on this particular criterion .
30 ’ Do you see anything in the boatman 's question to suggest that he was the village idiot ? ’
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