Example sentences of "could see [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time there were windows facing the child ( invisible to the competitor ) so the child could see where the chocolate was on each trial . |
| 2 | It may even have been — for he was quick to spot poetic talent — that he could see where Betjeman 's true genius lay . |
| 3 | How did Lee think he could see where he was pointing to in the dark ? |
| 4 | There was nothing arty or touristy about the old gods — a touch of pagan malevolence , perhaps — and I could see where the phrase ‘ rough-hewn honesty ’ had come from . |
| 5 | Further along , one could see where the street passed over a round-backed bridge and on into more rural surroundings . |
| 6 | High up on the wall of my cell I could see where somebody had written his name with a pencil . |
| 7 | I walked up from his left and I could see where the canvas of his left trainer was coming away from its rubber base . |
| 8 | Then one could spin it round when news , travel or holiday programmes on radio and television specify certain places and you could see where they were in relation to Britain and the rest of the world . |
| 9 | Everyone could see where that trail was leading . |
| 10 | Nicholas could see where he lay , his limbs cocked and black against the paler stone of the wall . |
| 11 | At his funeral you could see where his head had been stitched back onto his body . |
| 12 | She could see where she was going . |
| 13 | ‘ Shut up and listen , ’ the voice continued , and now the inmates could see where the thunderous exhortation came from . |
| 14 | Then he opened the front door so that they could see where they were going , and flicked the bathroom light off . |
| 15 | The Doctor had four balls in the air now , although nobody could see where the extra one had come from . |
| 16 | And then there 's traces of er you know you could see where the old foundations and things were . |
| 17 | Cos if you g if anybody go down there now they could see where what we call the Pier Head , so ships had to go up there and turn in to the lock gate . |
| 18 | And it started , we could see where it started from , this fire . |
| 19 | At 09.35 we had a cup of coffee on Hayward 's Heath station , where we met a member of the Bluebell Railway who could see where we were going from our BCRS members . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , apart from it being in the dark , and we could see where we were going , yes , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Schellenberg could see where the skin graft stretched tightly . |
| 22 | She could see where it got its name . |
| 23 | ‘ He said he was walking along the middle line so he could see where he was going , ’ said Mr Wellens , of Blue Ridge , Morton-on-Swale . |
| 24 | Right yeah erm not much more to add really I sum er summary of needs , I think that 's okay and you explored and probed quite well , the picture was good and all that , I could see where you were coming from . |
| 25 | With the torch balanced on the box he could see where he was going . |
| 26 | But er , ah , you know , it gets up into the garden but I do n't think it , it 's got anywhere near the house er this time , cos I was up there on Thursday and I , you could see where it had been , but it was and I mi I 'd have got very worried about er |
| 27 | People could see why I wanted to work in that way and did what they could to make it possible . |
| 28 | One could see why . |
| 29 | Within moments of climbing on board , Kelly could see why Billy Liar had won few friends at the yard . |
| 30 | They were entitled to eat after the last sitting in the central dining car , Emil said , rinsing glasses , but usually they went only for dinner , if then ; I could see why , as after the sandwiches on that first day we ate the all-too-few left-over portions of the Lucullan lunch we had served . |