Example sentences of "could see [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could see down the road to No. 22 . |
| 2 | And I could see during the week this was , in the mornings you know , say about eight or nine to ten in the morning , and I could see the figures of the ladies there , cleaning the windows in the morning . |
| 3 | A head of black silky hair came very slowly over the top of the rail until two dark cherry-like eyes could see over the top . |
| 4 | I took a step forward so I could see over the edge . |
| 5 | He could see over the tops of the trees of the demesne ; over bog and river and plain to the distant Partry mountains . |
| 6 | She still called it that ; and indeed , beyond the line of evergreen trees beside the main road south of the Lebanese city of Tyre , I could see above the coastline a faint , thin grey line of hills inside Galilee on the other side of the Israeli frontier . |
| 7 | Slowly , in case a sudden movement on his part might break his fragile control over his own legs , Hugh bent slightly so that he could see under the chest . |
| 8 | She could see under the beds , a pair of shoes standing harmlessly under each one in no dust . |
| 9 | After we had mounted the third hill , we found the country one continued village , tho' mountainous every way , as before ; hardly a house standing out of a speaking distance from another , and … we could see that almost at every house there was a tenter , and almost on every tenter a piece of cloth , or kersie , or shalloon , for they are three articles of that country 's labour ; from which the sun glancing , and , as I may say , shining ( the white reflecting its rays ) to us , I thought it was the most agreeable sight that I ever saw , for the hills , as I say , rising and falling so thick , and the valleys opening sometimes one way , sometimes another , so that sometimes we could see two or three miles this way , sometimes as far another ; sometimes like the streets near St Giles 's , called the Seven Dials ; we could see through the glades almost every way round us , yet look which way we would , high to the tops , and low to the bottoms , it was all the same ; innumerable houses and tenters , and a white piece upon every tenter . |
| 10 | All Robert could see through the keyhole was the blur of Mr Malik 's grey jacket , passing and repassing ; he seemed to be running , now in one direction , now in another . |
| 11 | U From my vantage point I could see through the railings into the front garden where Shep was slinking noiselessly into position beneath the stones . |
| 12 | You could see through the window . |
| 13 | It would , I hoped , create the illusion that you could see through the base , dispelling any impression there was an operator inside . ’ |
| 14 | From the outside of the Opéra-Comique in the 9th arrondissement of Paris , you could see through the windows on the ground floor to where vast bales of orange and pink and purple cloth were being unwound by workmen , laid out and cut into huge rectangles and squares . |
| 15 | I looked at my watch , the time was just after 11 p.m. and I could see through the doorway the rain was still driving hard . |
| 16 | All you could see through the gap was a strip of wall and half a fridge . |
| 17 | In the middle of the long teak dining table lay Lilian Hatton 's wedding hat , an elaborate confection of satin leaves and tulle as green and fresh as the real leaves he could see through the picture window in the Kingsbrook meadows . |
| 18 | He slumped , then turned slightly , staring through the gloom of the house towards the north , as if he could see through the walls , through the wood , to that place of battle , that cold place , which lay northwards and to which he and Tallis — as everything that passed this way seemed to be moving . |
| 19 | They were not very young , and from the back-slapping and laughter I could see through the glass rear doors in fine form . |
| 20 | Ruth noticed , with a tightening of the throat , that she could see through the glass rubble . |
| 21 | He shuddered with pleasure , wishing he could see into the darkness of this other , and know its face . |
| 22 | I could see into the pen and the sight was rewarding . |
| 23 | Er , you know , Jane Austen , and and Bronte , they wrote quite a lot about clothes which meant probably , but always , I felt the Trollope could see into the minds of women you know , and he was good . |
| 24 | I could see into the hallway . |
| 25 | From here she could see into the fields . |
| 26 | Trent walked round through the lean-to kitchen and stood in the doorway , from where he could see into the restaurant . |
| 27 | The sorceress could see into the future , and she could see how her curse might again fall on us . ’ |
| 28 | To the left , he could only at first see his own garden , his tennis court , the old wall that screened his vegetables — to eat what one has grown , actually to eat that ! — but then , across a low hedge and a fence that needed repair , he found he could see into the garden of the new Rectory , whose impersonal little back windows faced the same way as his own . |
| 29 | Greg elbowed his way through and got behind the engines , from where he could see into the garden . |
| 30 | Half the wall of the next house had been blown out , and he could see into the room beyond . |