Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] could [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 | Where there had been three men there were now a dozen , although he could not now see Diniz Vasquez . |
| 6 | She turned her head on the pillow , so he could not properly see her face , only the Greuze-like line of her cheek . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | From their lofty height of existence , it was as if they could not even see him . |
| 11 | He waited until he could no longer see the reflection of her candle , before going back to the dining room . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |