Example sentences of "he [vb past] n't see the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't see the faint blush of embarrassment because she turned her head away . |
| 2 | The governor had moved his guests back from the illuminated pedestal to show the line and glazing of the Ming vase to its best advantage , and because he had turned his head in their direction to explain a point , he did n't see the gibbon streak across the marble floor on all fours . |
| 3 | ‘ He did n't see the difference between Beyond Our Ken and Round The Horne or between Carry On and Just A Minute-in which he was quite brilliant . |
| 4 | ‘ Georgi was too busy getting himself lost , he did n't see the lorry . |
| 5 | ‘ The priest was so preoccupied he did n't see the van and was heading up the ramp when I stopped him . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Words fail one at such moments ’ said the President when the news was broken to him at the Kremlin by the Norwegian Ambassador , but immediately recovering his powers of speech , he said he did n't see the prize as a personal achievement . |
| 7 | At the same time , our poet 's impromptu verses — often he had n't seen the film before — were in the complex scheme of Persian poetry , rhyming , scanning , and so on . |
| 8 | I was pleased he had n't seen the note or the tears that I left behind on my Granny 's face . |
| 9 | But he admitted he had n't seen the pictures before firing Mr Hughes from his £22,000-a-year job with office equipment suppliers Fellowes . |
| 10 | No , he was imagining things , he had n't seen the man all that clearly in the fog . |
| 11 | He had n't seen the tug at first because it was alongside on the far side . |