Example sentences of "we could see the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could see the burning kite about half a mile away , and the blood wagon and fire engine racing to the rescue . |
| 2 | We could see the barbaric scenery about us , the tumbled mass of vegetation , with every tree weighted down by chains of epiphytes and climbers . |
| 3 | From our balcony we could see the great Bugis sailing prahus scything past us into the harbour . |
| 4 | It was only a forty-minute scramble away from Bira through dry and spiny scrub before we could see the great tree looming far above any of the surrounding vegetation . |
| 5 | At the end of this road we could see the great house standing with a pale light round it like a ghost . |
| 6 | The countryside we drove through was beautiful , but behind it we could see the long , dark , frightening hills of the moor . |
| 7 | When the first stones hurtled towards the boar , it lunged forward , its head rising clear above the water so that we could see the downward curve of its tusks , the bead-like eyes wild with terror . |
| 8 | We could see the red marks when he bent over but that was not all we saw . |
| 9 | Although we could see the old arrow-slit windows , more sophisticated owners had added rounded oriels , jutting bays and ornate chimney stacks . |
| 10 | We could see the green patches marking the old shieling sites where the incidental presence of humans and cattle over the generations had permanently fertilised the soil . |