Example sentences of "could [adv] see [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | and that 's a bargain , and se you know these reps would come round selling this that and the other and if , you could only see samples after , would n't touch it with a barge pole like you know , yeah I 'll have that , that 's all but that 's because he had a good grounding |
| 3 | Frederica could not see Alexander at all : indeed she had noted he was not there : she stared around and around now at colourless air and sand as though he might rise from them like a mirage . |
| 4 | And when it daylight came the next day next morning you could hardly believe it you could hardly see Rousay for the foam that the gale kick up like a thick fog . |
| 5 | Except that she could still see Julius in every drawing . |
| 6 | Although Charlie could always see Trentham in front of him , Tommy was so silent in his wake that from time to time he had to look back just to be certain his friend was still there . |
| 7 | He could also see bits of horns or wings down the side . |
| 8 | I could now see Malc on the front row quite clearly . |
| 9 | Well anyway it gets half way through this wood I could n't see couple of yards in front of me |
| 10 | She could n't see Miguelito from here , but she had seen enough . |
| 11 | He could n't see curvature in the third dimension . |
| 12 | Somewhere along the line , Cat and Prince 's Paisley Park organisation could n't see eye to eye . |
| 13 | Old fair hands could doubtless see order in the chaos , the separate camps of the different families within the larger camp . |
| 14 | My wife and I could never see eye to eye on the business of living . |