Example sentences of "he [modal v] [adv] [adv] see " in BNC.

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1 He may not even see me .
2 He did this by bringing a camera up to his face , through which he could nevertheless still see the tiger 's actions .
3 He could n't clearly see the buildings or tell how things had changed since he was last in London .
4 He claimed he could n't properly see the dials and light indicators on the dashboard , as they were obscured by the leather Momo steering wheel .
5 What could have possessed him to want somebody he could n't even see ?
6 And why not credit cards ? — no , he could n't quite see American Express listing her .
7 Somehow he could n't quite see himself doing this .
8 He could n't really see without his glasses on .
9 No , he could n't really see himself ever reduced to such a state .
10 He could n't possibly see her in the darkness , but she still shrank down in the seat — then felt her eyes widen when he stripped off his jacket and started to unbutton his shirt .
11 She turned her head on the pillow , so he could not properly see her face , only the Greuze-like line of her cheek .
12 In the lighted deckhouse he could not only see old Willis , fiddling about with what looked like tins and glasses , but Janet , wearing her other trouser suit .
13 Where there had been three men there were now a dozen , although he could not now see Diniz Vasquez .
14 He waited until he could no longer see the reflection of her candle , before going back to the dining room .
15 Holly could not resist , and they squeezed him out from the hole and when his feet were clear the two men stamped together on the steel plate to flatten it back , and between his knees he could no longer see the whiteness of snow on the stones and the zebra flash of the sleepers .
16 After a further period , even he could no longer see it .
17 His vision misted over and he could no longer see .
18 His tummy had grown very large and when he walked he could no longer see his thin , mis-shapen legs .
19 He could quite clearly see through it to the crushed grass on which it lay but , when he gingerly touched a scale that was a mere golden sheen on thin air , it felt solid enough .
20 No matter how much he wiped at the condensation on the window , he could still barely see what was going on out there .
21 He ca n't bloody see !
22 He knows where it is even though he can not currently see it .
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