Example sentences of "can see [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nobody can see into the future , and all stock exchange investment is a gamble . |
| 2 | 1 Where do we first learn about Auntie 's excellent eye-sight ? 2 Where do we first learn that Auntie can see into the future ? 3 How do we know that Auntie did not see the fire at the office block where she used to work ? 4 What exactly did Auntie foresee on the last afternoon of her life ? 5 Why did Auntie save Billy 's life , even though she knew that she herself would die ? |
| 3 | In the half-back window the lower half of the backing is closed in , but you can see into the shop itself through the top half . |
| 4 | But He hummed a little tune , cheery as a plague pit , and — pausing only to extract the life from a passing mayfly , and one-ninth of the lives from a cat cowering under the fish stall ( all cats can see into the octarine ) — Death turned on His heel and set off towards the Broken Drum . |
| 5 | ‘ Exceptional Navigators can see into the warp from the normal universe ! ’ |
| 6 | You can see into the mind of a normal , everyday man who has somehow become a murderer , he works in a way which is hard to understand , as everything he does is due to his obsession , which makes whatever he does perfectly acceptable to him , it 's almost as if he ca n't help it . |
| 7 | Your skin is like creamy blossom and your eyes are so clear and grey they can see into the soul . |
| 8 | The jury will remain out for a year or two yet on whether the operating system can see off the threat from Microsoft Corp and its Windows NT , but Unix is definitely not winning big in the public relations stakes : the Wall Street Journal dismisses Unix as ‘ a catch-all term for many operating systems that share some features and a common parentage ’ . |
| 9 | The jury will remain out for a year or two yet on whether the operating system can see off the threat from Microsoft Corp and its Windows NT , but Unix is definitely not winning big in the public relations stakes : the Wall Street Journal dismisses Unix as ‘ a catch-all term for many operating systems that share some features and a common parentage ’ . |
| 10 | At last , someone in the game who can see beyond the hype and is wiiling to say so . |
| 11 | It 's as if he has been drawn outside himself by indignation ; transcended himself ; literally risen into the air above his own head , so that he can see beyond the confines of his own life . |
| 12 | Ye can see through the back . |
| 13 | yeah the only thing about having those others of course you can see through the windows , but there 's not a lot you can do about that . |
| 14 | Oh , I see ah I thought they had sort of you know like fairy tales , you can see through the wall , that 's what they do put a camera in in , anyway it was rather funny and those birds come out and grow up quite quite wonderful . |
| 15 | Knowing the fact-presupposing explanation of ‘ It 's afternoon ’ we can see through the question , ‘ How can I mean anything by ‘ It 's afternoon on the Sun ’ ? ’ |
| 16 | We can see through the questions and answers about ‘ Afternoon on the Sun ’ . |
| 17 | No we 've got a shower with a glass thing and you can see through the glass thing |
| 18 | They uniformly show young , narrow-shouldered , and in so far as one can see through the draperies , narrow-hipped , flat-chested women with long pale hands which have clearly never done a stroke of work . |
| 19 | The view is more stunning yet if you take the trouble to climb up a little from the road , on to the grassy hill behind , so that you can see over the top of the slightly obtrusive forested spur to the south-west ; or if you follow the path through the woods to the south of the road for about half an hour you come out on a crest which dominates the country in the direction of the watershed . |
| 20 | Because the War Wagon tower is so high the rifleman can see over the heads of intervening troops and low terrain features such as low walls and hedges . |
| 21 | ‘ We can no more see to the bottom of the next few hours , than we can see to the bottom of this river what I catches hold of . |
| 22 | I sneak a look at what I can see of the driver 's face , to check how he likes his boss 's sermon , but his face is wooden . |
| 23 | If the handle and what you can see of the bud are still green , the prospects are good . |
| 24 | In what you can see of the earth , |
| 25 | There 's a grand bit ham I can see on the tables down there . |
| 26 | Er , I can see on the top there but there 's lots there and there . |
| 27 | You can see on the Covermaster , on an escalating plan , it 's twenty percent each year for the first four years . |
| 28 | You think you 're fit , but not to the extent of athletes or to aerobic teachers of a high calibre , erm but I think we erm although we joke about , you can see on the pain in the faces that it does hurt and it does do us good . |
| 29 | And you can see on the gable end just here , you know where it 's been heightened you can see the the old gable end |
| 30 | I bent my head a bit , look , you can see on the picture , but I could n't stop grinning . |