Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [modal v] [adv] [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I could n't actually see Maté 's sneer , I felt it in the darkness . |
| 2 | She felt close to him , although she could n't quite see his features or his choice of clothes . |
| 3 | But although she could no longer see anything , she could swear that the star stopped on the edge of the hole and did not go in ! |
| 4 | His head turned , and although she could only just see the shadow of his eyes she knew he was looking at her . |
| 5 | The lack of contouring presents no real disadvantage , though the lack of a ribcage cutaway means that the bass tilts slightly forward from the top , so you ca n't quite see where you are on the fretboard for occasional quick reference . |
| 6 | I can , I can tell you that this morning that the pothole is not only there it 's full of water so you ca n't actually see it , but , the point is it 's Doctor Watson 's Lane |
| 7 | Where there had been three men there were now a dozen , although he could not now see Diniz Vasquez . |
| 8 | She turned her head on the pillow , so he could not properly see her face , only the Greuze-like line of her cheek . |
| 9 | Dusk deepened until I could no longer see ten yards ahead , and after I 'd knocked the shaft of the arrow against an unseen hazard twice within a minute I stopped and sank slowly down to my knees , resting my forehead and the front of my left shoulder against a young birch trunk , drained as I 'd never been before . |
| 10 | Ruth saw she could n't last long ; her face had a blind look , as if she could no longer see through the dazzling fire . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We must therefore allow for this even if we can not always see it . |
| 13 | From their lofty height of existence , it was as if they could not even see him . |
| 14 | He waited until he could no longer see the reflection of her candle , before going back to the dining room . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , the JMP-1 has no input on the back and so in some ways it falls at the final fence , because I ca n't really see how you can set it up to work in a neat and user-friendly rack ; you 'd have to wire the thing up every time you gigged it . |
| 16 | The vision of suicide has now subsided , because I can no longer see my broken body clearly on the dark pavement below . |
| 17 | Any speculation would soon be forgotten or dismissed , because they 'll never again see us together , will they ? |
| 18 | By the age of five I was given glasses which had no effect , serving only to restrict my field of vision , since I could only really see to read with one eye . |
| 19 | The effect of this is to turn us upside-down and virtually blindfold us , since we can no longer see our eyes , which are hidden in the blank space between the mirrors . |
| 20 | Beth was crying too , crying inside , and she wondered whether she would ever again see the young man who had been left in her care . |
| 21 | Not that it mattered , as I would probably not see either of them again , but the scene last night had been strange , and my curiosity was aroused . |
| 22 | Yes I 'm glad in a way , I suppose , though I 'll still never see you if you 're off to the provinces to entertain the troops , damn their eyes . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Well , ’ Lucinda shrugged , ‘ they say you 're never alone in the blackout , even though you ca n't actually see anyone . ’ |
| 25 | The children are not being asked to do the exercises as a matter of course , when they can not really see the point . |
| 26 | It 's old ladies who show all the signs of a long life on subsistence , though they would n't necessarily see themselves as having been poor , because their husbands were n't necessarily poor . |
| 27 | He knows where it is even though he can not currently see it . |