Example sentences of "can [adv] see [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can only see its results . |
| 2 | In the operating room you can only see my eyes . |
| 3 | PRINCESS DIANA has been told she can not see her sons until next Tuesday . |
| 4 | ( she rolls her eyes , knowing that he can not see her face . ) |
| 5 | Criticism can not see its role as ‘ putting right ’ previous errors as though academic study was part of a stream of emendation aimed at achieving some final truth about texts . |
| 6 | Amelia McLean also pointed out that skill was at stake : " fortunately , the majority of women workers can not see their way to join that union , as they claim to be skilled workers " . |
| 7 | Small builders can not see their way to take on many trainees . |
| 8 | We can not see their size or shape . |
| 9 | Even Moses , when he asked to see God 's glory , was told , ‘ You can not see my face ; for man shall not see me and live ’ ( Exod. |
| 10 | The dentist can not see my toothache , only my ailing tooth . |
| 11 | Is dark , too , and you can not see his face : |
| 12 | You feel you have tried all ways , listened to advice , thought about your life but still can not see your way clear . |
| 13 | If you can not see your way to doing this , I regret that I shall have to suggest to the Parish Council that they consider moving this account to another bank . |
| 14 | What I did not realise when I bought the house was that in the winter , and sometimes in the summer , the fog rolls thickly in and you can not see your hand in front of your face . |
| 15 | ‘ I can not see anyone doing that this time and providing it is a reasonable pace I will be at the front . |
| 16 | Johnson reports this and other gory tales , tongue-in-cheek so firmly you can scarcely see his jaw bulge . |
| 17 | We can easily see what Irenaeus was exploring . |
| 18 | File it alongside ‘ I 'll put you in motion pictures ’ , ‘ I could immortalise you in paint ’ , ‘ I can just see your neck in marble ’ , etc , etc . |
| 19 | I can just see his eyes . |
| 20 | Then she 'll pout her lips and look cross , and you can still see her thinking : ‘ No , I 'm getting nowhere with that . ’ |
| 21 | I can still see my hand |
| 22 | I mean I can still see my hand moving |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , I can still see my mother at the urn . ’ |
| 24 | She might have offered something to eat , as most Northern women believe they have a mission in life to feed up any male who can still see his feet . |
| 25 | You get used to it … and you can always see your friends if it gets too much ’ . |
| 26 | You can hardly see your hand in front of your face and er I mean there was no way to fight the fire , so I mean all we could do was sort of stand back and look 'cos we were up There was about At that stage there was twenty or thirty of us standing in this north west corner of the platform . |
| 27 | An exhibtion of his work is on at the Midlands Arts Gallery and you can also see his work at the Malvern Festival at the end of May . |
| 28 | But then — if we are taking our time and stay to look at the town as a whole , walk around it in the cool and quiet of the evening when the shops are shut , and the traffic has gone home , and we can really see its contours and its bone-structure — other questions begin to arise in the mind , which even the best of guide-books does not answer . |
| 29 | And as our science correspondent David Whitehouse reports , it means we can now see what cities and building looked like hundreds of years ago . |
| 30 | So although agencies can now see what sort of approach they should be making in women 's development policy , and are looking at their lives in their entirety — not just as baby machines , the agencies are restricted by the IMF and World Bank conditions in what they can do . |