Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [adv] [adv] see [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 The snake was still inside the leg , and I could n't even see it .
2 I could n't exactly see you two clicking .
3 I could n't really see them losing three in a row .
4 I could n't really see him , but I was suddenly frightened , I just knew he wanted to kiss me or something worse .
5 Sue showed me those pictures you sent , but they were so small and faraway and you were all wearing those funny oil-rig hats , I could n't really see you .
6 I could n't really see us doing another ‘ Pills ‘ N ’ Thrills'-type thing , but then we 've always done exactly what we 've liked , always been a little bit different .
7 He said well I could n't bloody see it I said no you did n't see it I said because you 've got to go to the counter for a ticket .
8 I could so clearly see her coming between you and me , between us and our poetry , and I felt furiously jealous and unhappy but tried not to show it .
9 Johnny had moved to the far end of the room and she could no longer see him , but she could guess at the expression on his face .
10 The crows attacked and her movements were strangely slow and disorientated as if she could not quite see them , or make her wings and talons move as she intended .
11 She spun round , but she could not quite see him .
12 She stabbed at the recorder controls , though her eyes were blurred with tears and she could n't even see them .
13 The image was still nebulous , she could n't quite see it , though the cottage helped .
14 But she could n't ever see me , though I think at first she knew I was around , so now I mostly stay where I am and amuse myself with some of the other kids who are here too .
15 She hated to be made to think in this way ; but there were some things you had to think of with your mind , when you could n't straightforwardly see them with your hands , to deal with them then and there .
16 So we looked at two areas where we 've erm we were both very weak , erm , and I do n't we could even , we could n't even see it with regards this .
17 We could n't often see them from the main road which passed in front of the building because they were forbidden to look out of the windows .
18 From their lofty height of existence , it was as if they could not even see him .
19 He could n't possibly see her in the darkness , but she still shrank down in the seat — then felt her eyes widen when he stripped off his jacket and started to unbutton his shirt .
20 After a further period , even he could no longer see it .
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