Example sentences of "could [adv] see the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , there wo n't be much alteration from the side which triumphed so convincingly in Lithuania and Latvia although we could perhaps see the return of Nottingham Forest winger Kingsley Black at some stage . |
| 2 | But through the clogging pain in her breast , she could only seen the gaze of Lady Usk — dark and knowing . |
| 3 | She could only see the ceiling , but she could imagine the sight her bottom made : just overlapping the table , with her thighs spread wide to present a perfect picture of her intimate sexual opening to an enthralled audience . |
| 4 | As she heard her front door click , Rachel 's anger suddenly turned to dismay and as she turned to the window she found she could only see the outline of the cathedral through a mist of tears . |
| 5 | In the darkness Gabriel could only see the shape of a woman sitting on a horse . |
| 6 | Erlich could only see the soles . |
| 7 | The picture itself was so dark he could only see the image of Emily in the glass , naked and moving wildly , her buttocks pumping urgently against him . |
| 8 | She could only see the glint of the whites of his eyes , and the gleam of his teeth as he smiled at her . |
| 9 | Granny was seated in her rocking chair facing the fireplace , but her back was to me and I could only see the paper curlers she had in her hair . |
| 10 | ‘ And I should have realised that you 'd be the one who could only see the thing from one angle , ’ he retorted harshly . |
| 11 | Presently she could see him again ; his head was erect , but his eyes were cast down so that she could only see the dark . |
| 12 | The British Trias is almost completely lacking in marine fossils below the Rhaetian , but I maintained that one could nevertheless see the effects of alpine transgressions reflected in our continental sediments . |
| 13 | Looking to the north , she could already see the curtains of snow which were sweeping towards them with terrifying speed . |
| 14 | I could already see the books piled high in the better shops , garlanded with white slips of praise . |
| 15 | By the time the train moved off she could see nothing at all out of the window , she could scarcely see the window , so many people were squeezed between her and it . |
| 16 | The phrases ‘ deluge trickled down his neck , ’ and ‘ met by such a blast of wind and water that he could scarcely see the track ’ make Turnours ' journey seem physically unpleasant . |
| 17 | I could not see the land , only mountains of water all around me . |
| 18 | She leaned on a staff as tall as herself , and could not see the visitors to her fur-lined chamber , but her nearsense informed her . |
| 19 | The court also absolved General Jorge Rabanal , who led the operation , on the grounds that from his post he could not see the slaughter of the prisoners . |
| 20 | This would offer great possibilities for travel in space and time , but unfortunately it seems that these solutions may all be highly unstable ; the least disturbance , such as the presence of an astronaut , may change them so that the astronaut could not see the singularity until he hit it and and his time came to an end . |
| 21 | Most of the 25,000 audience in the Palais Bercy could not see the platform because of the enormous scaffold bridge built across it for the cameras . |
| 22 | She could not see if the platform emptied because she could not see the platform . |
| 23 | Pupils could not see the relevance of what they were asked to do and so lost motivation . |
| 24 | Perhaps even more important is the inclusion of a preview facility since before you could not see the effects you had selected until printing out . |
| 25 | One could not see the sea . |
| 26 | They could not see the glow of triumph in his eyes . |
| 27 | So far as we know , Ptolemy spent his whole life in Alexandria , which is well north of the Earth 's equator , so that he could not see the stars of the far south . |
| 28 | Unhappily , she averted her head so that he could not see the glimmer of tears that smarted behind her eyelids . |
| 29 | From where I sat I could not see the clock on the mantelpiece . |
| 30 | Most clients were too close to their organisation — they could not see the wood for the trees — to solve many of their senior recruiting problems . |