Example sentences of "could [not/n't] see the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could not see the land , only mountains of water all around me . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She could not see if the platform emptied because she could not see the platform . |
| 6 | Pupils could not see the relevance of what they were asked to do and so lost motivation . |
| 7 | One could not see the sea . |
| 8 | They could not see the glow of triumph in his eyes . |
| 9 | Unhappily , she averted her head so that he could not see the glimmer of tears that smarted behind her eyelids . |
| 10 | From where I sat I could not see the clock on the mantelpiece . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They remind us that this is the very beginning of the idea of representing the world about us as it actually appears ; that we must think away our hindsight and remember that these artists could not see the way ahead . |
| 13 | He desperately needed to talk to me , to have me as a confessor if not to obtain my active help , but could not see the way to come to terms with me ; his need to accept was in conflict with his wish to reject . |
| 14 | Loretta could not see the water , but its course was clearly marked by the graceful trees , mostly weeping willows , through which a light breeze was whispering . |
| 15 | It was clear that both parties were set on a collision course , and I could not see the possibility of an out-and-out win for Mrs Castle . |
| 16 | I could not see the heap ; it was hidden by brambles nowadays . |
| 17 | Lucien could not see the boy 's face through the steam . |
| 18 | I could not see the boy , and there was nothing else in that lonely place . |
| 19 | The blackbirds that saw it quickly treated this bird as though it were potentially dangerous and mobbed it , even when their fellows could not see the owl and so were making no noise . |
| 20 | I could not see the state of the causeway . |
| 21 | She could not see the state of Eleanor 's neck because Eleanor wore the collar of her crisp white blouse up . |
| 22 | I could not see the cairn from here . |
| 23 | The houses were linked together with heavy fretwork windows so that you could not see the sky . |
| 24 | I could not see the fellow , but the voice had come from bushes nearby . |
| 25 | Stirling jumped as the first man of his stick and in the darkness made a bad landing as he could not see the ground . |
| 26 | When Cassie could not see the ring , she felt a moment of panic . |
| 27 | She told me later she could not see the point of such correspondence . |
| 28 | He decided to be nice about the whole business , though he still could not see the point of it , and offered to put the little biscuity things into bowls . |
| 29 | He was uncertain , and could not see the point of hazarding a guess before the forensic labs had reported on the pair of scissors . |
| 30 | I could not see the ravine and its bald cliff edges on account of the trees and shrubs that had reached a confident maturity despite long years of unprotected infancy and adolescence . |