Example sentences of "could n't see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Downstairs you could n't see her hair because it was all screwed up in a knot . |
| 2 | No , I could n't see what caused it . |
| 3 | Rodney was not in the best of tempers because ( he kept saying ) he could n't see out of the rear window with that damned bicycle in the way . |
| 4 | But I could n't see the moon or the stars , only the gloomy sky . |
| 5 | Could n't see any cinemas around . |
| 6 | My dad took me to watch Newcastle when I was about 10 but I could n't see because of all the people standing in front of me . |
| 7 | Afterwards Dr McDaid said : ‘ I could n't see any train . |
| 8 | That was supposed to be a funny song , and I ca n't understand how people could n't see it . |
| 9 | But the exit was at the foot of the screen , and I was being borne up towards that great and drooling hag , away from safety , pinioned by someone I could n't see , and the witch was laughing . |
| 10 | She wore white ankle socks ; my mother preferred me to wear fawn knee-length ones , but our skirts and berets were the same except mine had a leather band inside you could n't see . |
| 11 | I could n't see the difference , but his vet insisted he was n't fit enough , even when summer came . |
| 12 | I could n't see who it was at first , then I realised it was my husband . |
| 13 | You could n't see the card until you unfolded the handkerchief and now Wexford looked at it for the first time . |
| 14 | He said it was quieter in there , but I could n't see the lay-by from his room and after a bit I went outside . |
| 15 | I could n't see nothing and I — I stumbled over him . |
| 16 | At first I could n't see them , but when I heard a little quack I had a close look and saw them all there huddled together and trying to keep warm . |
| 17 | ‘ What I could n't see was how the life and death of Someone Else ( whoever he was ) 2000 years ago could help us here and now — except in so far as his example helped us . ’ |
| 18 | What I could n't see was how the life and death of Someone Else ‘ whoever he was ’ 2000 years ago could help us here and now . ’ |
| 19 | Sometimes on a winter afternoon it would start coming in and get so black you could n't see . |
| 20 | But I really could n't see the sense in women wearing Armani by day and then letting someone else dress them by night . ’ |
| 21 | Somewhere along the line , Cat and Prince 's Paisley Park organisation could n't see eye to eye . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd not forgotten him , but I just could n't see why he 'd want to kill her . |
| 23 | Philip waited till he could n't see him any more , then went back to his hide . |
| 24 | He could n't see them . |
| 25 | He could n't see the boy any more . |
| 26 | He could n't see him by the house or in the trees at the bottom of the big lawn . |
| 27 | He could n't see a thing . |
| 28 | He could n't see the sheep . |
| 29 | He could n't see Lee . |
| 30 | And they were glazed with opaque white glass so that the patients could n't see out either , nor passers-by see in . |