Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] see the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Granny was seated in her rocking chair facing the fireplace , but her back was to me and I could only see the paper curlers she had in her hair . |
| 2 | The tide was already on the turn , you could just see the stone margin of the path they had walked . |
| 3 | Although it was dark , I could still see the stone wall at the edge of the road . |
| 4 | Nathan could still see the preacher standing , shocked and speechless , on his box . |
| 5 | Yeremi could still see the tube wall quite clearly with his enhanced vision . |
| 6 | The Bushman was following it , but suddenly he swerved aside and he went off in another direction and I followed him , although I could clearly see the buffalo hoofmarks leading off in the opposite way . |
| 7 | Behind the gun barrel , we could now see the tank crew sitting on the turret of the T-62 , one of them with a cloth tied round his forehead . |
| 8 | She could almost see the thought processes flicker across his brain . |
| 9 | Soapy could almost see the prison doors . |
| 10 | He had missed her moment — he knew he had missed it — ; yet his eyes softened suddenly , and you could almost see the shadow fall from his shoulders as he twinkled down at Laura where she knelt before her dying fire . |
| 11 | You could barely see the barber jackets for the brollies … torrential rain and wind made the going heavy everywhere at Cheltenham . |
| 12 | The men of the Somerset Levels paid a tithe called ‘ moor-penny ’ ; their cattle suffered from a disease called ‘ moor-evil ’ ; and in every pond and damp corner you will still see the jerking movements of the moorhen . |
| 13 | He 's also figuring DEC has an unannounced ‘ modular computing ’ initiative that will ultimately see the Laser top out at 12 CPUs or more . |
| 14 | But I can just see the Sun headline , a fitting follow up to ‘ Paddy Pants-down ’ , to wit : ‘ Is Neil A Nancy Boyo ? ’ |
| 15 | If you look closely at L'Escargot by Matisse in the Tate Gallery you can just see the pencil marks round the collage pieces . |
| 16 | Non-train ticket holders can still see the road traction engine display at Swanage at £1 for adults and just 50 pence for children . |
| 17 | Inside , one can still see the Map Room , where Churchill used to study the progress of the war , the Cabinet Room where many of the Second World War 's most important decisions were made , and Churchill 's personal accommodation from which he made several of his wartime broadcasts . |
| 18 | ( I can still see the Lorimer drive blasting into the back of the net with Bremner barely off-side and no-where near interfering with play . ) |
| 19 | If I take the Metro you can almost see the petrol gauge dying in front of you . ’ |
| 20 | Throughout this gargantuan meal the talk was almost entirely concentrated on food , on remembering other great meals , or discussing the quality of the ham and the other salumi : ‘ It must n't just be pink ; it must n't be too fat , and it should be cut so thin that you can almost see the church tower through it . ’ |
| 21 | The restoration is taking place in public , so you can actually see the volunteer restorers , some of them ex-Vickers employees , in action . |