Example sentences of "[adv] see [pos pn] [noun sg] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He finished the glass of Kir and decided that he had better see his controller in person . |
| 2 | What I did not realise when I bought the house was that in the winter , and sometimes in the summer , the fog rolls thickly in and you can not see your hand in front of your face . |
| 3 | File it alongside ‘ I 'll put you in motion pictures ’ , ‘ I could immortalise you in paint ’ , ‘ I can just see your neck in marble ’ , etc , etc . |
| 4 | One such gillie , towards the end of his career , carried out his duties more by instinct than by reason : he had always been shortsighted , but , nearing retirement , he could hardly see his hand in front of his face . |
| 5 | You can hardly see your hand in front of your face and er I mean there was no way to fight the fire , so I mean all we could do was sort of stand back and look 'cos we were up There was about At that stage there was twenty or thirty of us standing in this north west corner of the platform . |
| 6 | ‘ Is it meaner than a dungeon so dark that you ca n't see your hand in front of your face ? ’ |