Example sentences of "i [modal v] see [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe I 'll see the funny side of it one day . |
| 2 | ‘ If it 's witchcraft , ’ Mandeville grated , ‘ I 'll see the old bitch burn within a week ! ’ |
| 3 | I could see no creepy-crawly ensnared in the hairs of the Mosedale specimen . |
| 4 | I could see no possible way of escape . |
| 5 | Some 36 years later I was invited to become Patron of Vliegclub Grimbergen , which honour I took very seriously and when my Belgian friends told me of the threatened closure of this , one of the busiest of Belgium 's general aviation airfields , I could see no obvious reason for closure , other than what only seemed to me to be political bias . |
| 6 | but I could see no special contact between them . |
| 7 | Moorcroft 's letter of resignation refers to his ill health , but speaking 40 years later , Coleman said : ‘ I could see no ill health [ in Moorcroft ] at all . |
| 8 | I could see no just cause for carrying on after arguing vehemently against the idea , then seeing it carried . |
| 9 | In the candle-light I could see a long table , in the middle of which was a large yellow shape , with hundreds of insects feeding off it . |
| 10 | Driving towards the bridge I could see a black plume of smoke . |
| 11 | I could see a vague shape behind it . |
| 12 | As I regained my composure I could see a wide grin on the Frenchman 's face . |
| 13 | In the distance I could see a faint light , and I decided to try to reach it . |
| 14 | In the distance I could see a habited Deaconess clearing away the vessels from the early Communion service . |
| 15 | At one end of the beach I could see a small cave ; drums of kerosene . |
| 16 | From where I was standing , far below me I could see a separate miniature fort linked to the mother fortress by an umbilical causeway . |
| 17 | I could see a white hound running through the trees . |
| 18 | Over a hedge I could see a large stone sitting in the middle of the field , basking in the sun like a great toad . |
| 19 | Looking down towards the Orne I could see a thick mist over the water and patches of mist hanging over the cornfields . |
| 20 | Mr Parsons looked down at me at last , and I could see a different embarrassment replacing the first as he met my ironic eye . |
| 21 | From the air , I could see the burned-out shopping centres along Western Avenue whose Korean signs were still visible in the ashes . |
| 22 | Turning a quarter circle away from the mosque towards the setting sun , through the early evening heat haze I could see the distant silhouette of the Qutab Minar , the tower of victory built by the first Sultan immediately after he had driven the Hindus from Delhi in 1192 . |
| 23 | When I travelled across to the other side of the island , I could see the other islands , and I said to myself , ‘ Perhaps I can get there with a boat . |
| 24 | From there I could see the other islands , and I could also see a boat , far out to sea . |
| 25 | We were so close that I could see the unhappy mixture of terror and subservience in his face . |
| 26 | In front of me I could see the dark shape of a summer-house and I moved towards it . |
| 27 | The new stripped-pine floor vibrated ; through the sash window I could see the black truck pulling up the drive towards the main road , the silver caravan coming behind like a drogue that was preventing the gypsies from submerging , escaping into the very centre of the earth . |
| 28 | On the other hand , among the general clutter , only a few feet off , I could see the upturned keel of an old clinker-built rowing boat . |
| 29 | It was so close that I could see the tiny ball of silk held between its front pair of legs and its jaws . |
| 30 | I could see the tiny figures of Harvey and myself moving on two of the screens as we walked across the floor . |