Example sentences of "i could [adv] see [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Down on ground level again , I could n't see gaunt-face anywhere . |
| 2 | ‘ I could n't see Gillian . |
| 3 | Well anyway it gets half way through this wood I could n't see couple of yards in front of me |
| 4 | Though I knew a remarkable plumber with only a stump for a hand who worked for Uncle Ted , I could n't see Changez decorating Anwar 's shop with one arm . |
| 5 | I was touched , I could n't see Mrs Thatcher touching , shaking my hand . |
| 6 | That was important , for I could n't see Joanna . |
| 7 | dad , dad did n't say nothing about all evening just pop in for an hour , but I could n't see Stuey and me sitting there disturb him , scared |
| 8 | I could n't see Emily 's expression as I did so . |
| 9 | I could n't see Russell 's face or his reaction to all this . |
| 10 | ‘ For I wanted the opportunity to talk to you privately , ’ she told Theda quietly , ‘ although I could not see Araminta allowing it . ’ |
| 11 | I could even see Conchis , who was sitting where we had sat on the terrace the night before , apparently reading . |
| 12 | There was a figure on either side of him but I could only see Charlie Vaughan . |
| 13 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 14 | I could now see Malc on the front row quite clearly . |
| 15 | You see — I could never see Bridget home when we went out . ’ |
| 16 | My wife and I could never see eye to eye on the business of living . |
| 17 | When I went to Roundhay first I could still see fairies . |