Example sentences of "can [adv] see [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can only see its results . |
| 2 | In the operating room you can only see my eyes . |
| 3 | Johnson reports this and other gory tales , tongue-in-cheek so firmly you can scarcely see his jaw bulge . |
| 4 | We can easily see what Irenaeus was exploring . |
| 5 | File it alongside ‘ I 'll put you in motion pictures ’ , ‘ I could immortalise you in paint ’ , ‘ I can just see your neck in marble ’ , etc , etc . |
| 6 | I can just see his eyes . |
| 7 | Then she 'll pout her lips and look cross , and you can still see her thinking : ‘ No , I 'm getting nowhere with that . ’ |
| 8 | I can still see my hand |
| 9 | I mean I can still see my hand moving |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , I can still see my mother at the urn . ’ |
| 11 | She might have offered something to eat , as most Northern women believe they have a mission in life to feed up any male who can still see his feet . |
| 12 | You get used to it … and you can always see your friends if it gets too much ’ . |
| 13 | You can hardly see your hand in front of your face and er I mean there was no way to fight the fire , so I mean all we could do was sort of stand back and look 'cos we were up There was about At that stage there was twenty or thirty of us standing in this north west corner of the platform . |
| 14 | An exhibtion of his work is on at the Midlands Arts Gallery and you can also see his work at the Malvern Festival at the end of May . |
| 15 | But then — if we are taking our time and stay to look at the town as a whole , walk around it in the cool and quiet of the evening when the shops are shut , and the traffic has gone home , and we can really see its contours and its bone-structure — other questions begin to arise in the mind , which even the best of guide-books does not answer . |
| 16 | And as our science correspondent David Whitehouse reports , it means we can now see what cities and building looked like hundreds of years ago . |
| 17 | So although agencies can now see what sort of approach they should be making in women 's development policy , and are looking at their lives in their entirety — not just as baby machines , the agencies are restricted by the IMF and World Bank conditions in what they can do . |
| 18 | We can now see what epistemology is , according to classical foundationalism . |
| 19 | People can now see them warts and all . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh I can quite see your point of view ’ is not a reaction that is on the agenda , quite frankly . |
| 21 | This is much better you can almost see your furniture ca n't you ? |
| 22 | However , this size of fretwire should please more of the people more of the time , and you ca n't deny that the fret job is superb ; the ends are so well finished you can almost see your reflection in them . |
| 23 | She also wants to exercise to improve muscle tone during this period ; she can then see what shape she is in at the end of the year before she decides whether or not she really does need to lose those extra 4 lb ( 1.8 kg ) . |
| 24 | In small birds it can hardly be rendered except as a blur of wings ; we can sometimes see their wingspread clearly when they threaten each other or quarrel at bird tables . |
| 25 | I think as far as market is concerned we have sort of taken certain steps as far as the marketing is I mean the computerisation of ticket system gives us a much greater insight on marketing now cos you can actually see what people come to see and we can by the ticket that 's actually sold and we can actually target people direct . |
| 26 | I think there 's one other thing that 's worth thinking about , and that is that many of our students come into the University for one-day schools , for lectures , for activities of this kind , and this gives an opportunity for a kind of reciprocal traffic , if you like , so that people outside who often have very odd ideas of what universities do and what they 're about and what they 're like , can actually see your University , participate in its activities , and we can see ordinary folk who sometimes ask the shrewdest questions and make sometimes what seem to be the most penetrating kinds of points about the sort of things that we take for granted . |
| 27 | AB : I can certainly see his point , but I just wonder whether this is too much of a generalisation . |