Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] not [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could not even see as far as the mouth of the burn . |
| 2 | He has an appetite for land and castles I would not willingly see in the King himself , but he 's a more dangerous man than the King . ’ |
| 3 | Naturally , I went to see Buckingham Palace , not dreaming on that occasion that I would not only see it again but actually enter the premises . |
| 4 | ‘ I can not honestly see that a system which would require us to compromise the morning after the election is really so morally inferior to a system which has already obliged us to compromise our policies two years before polling day . ’ |
| 5 | You see I can not not see it |
| 6 | If I am serious , I can not simply see the preservation of the countryside as a desire of a few people like myself , to be weighed in the balance against the desires of others for holidays abroad , when it comes to deciding on whether a new airport should be built in some place of outstanding beauty . |
| 7 | I confess I can not really see worm watching catching on as a mass pursuit with worm watcher clubs and organised field visits , but I did hear of an infants ' school where the worm has joined the tadpole as a creature for study . |
| 8 | At Feros Lighting , Parsons Street , Banbury , you 'll not only see the largest selection of domestic lighting in the area , they can also advise you on the best way to light your office , so if it 's one lightbulb , your whole home or a complete office , for the complete look go to Feros Lighting in Parsons Street , Banbury . |
| 9 | She could still see only his profile , and when he moved away , into the room 's shadows , she could not even see that . |
| 10 | She spun round , but she could not quite see him . |
| 11 | The crows attacked and her movements were strangely slow and disorientated as if she could not quite see them , or make her wings and talons move as she intended . |
| 12 | Like Tom , she could not really see Liza in the role of ministering angel , nor could she imagine her out in all weathers driving a tractor . |
| 13 | But she could not really see herself with whatever it was : vase , or rug or necklace , trying to sell it . |
| 14 | The body 's centre section is maple too , and you 'd not normally see that because traditionally it 's been painted over ; and the bridge is different , more solid-looking ; and the pickups … etc. , etc … |
| 15 | Perhaps you could not even see the windows of the School from where he was . |
| 16 | Leo , you must tell her that it is Doctor 's Orders that she must not look after her father any more — that it is too much for her — that she need not even see her father until she is quite well enough , and the doctor has himself offered to find a suitable place , so that she will know her father will be well looked after . |
| 17 | You will not necessarily see your physiotherapist doing exactly the treatment techniques described below : she may use some of these techniques plus others she has devised herself , or she may use a completely different method . |
| 18 | This can be comforting to them to some extent , but what they really want to hear is that you will not only see that they are cared for properly for the rest of their days , but that you will help them to remain in control of their own finances and to be as independent as possible . |
| 19 | You can not even see it as a star in your sky . |
| 20 | To grasp the meaning of a handshake we must not only see it positively as located in a greeting ceremonial , that is in a sequence of actions identified with respect to the social act they accomplish , but we must also see it negatively , as excluding certain alternatives and possibilities of action . |
| 21 | As we came upon the moving picture with its ability not only to entertain us but also to analyse what we could not easily see with the unaided eye , we began to recognize that we had new tools for discovery ; we now knew exactly how a horse used its feet in galloping , what an explosion was like in slow motion , what a street looked like to the condensed eye of the time-lapse camera . |
| 22 | What is more , we can not even see the processes going on today that might lead to such extinctions . |
| 23 | They are not words for physical things , like objects or parts of the body , but for states or processes that we can not physically see or feel . |
| 24 | We must therefore allow for this even if we can not always see it . |
| 25 | From their lofty height of existence , it was as if they could not even see him . |
| 26 | She had pulled her veil right over her face so that they could not even see her eyes . |
| 27 | The children are not being asked to do the exercises as a matter of course , when they can not really see the point . |
| 28 | He may not even see me . |
| 29 | She turned her head on the pillow , so he could not properly see her face , only the Greuze-like line of her cheek . |
| 30 | In the lighted deckhouse he could not only see old Willis , fiddling about with what looked like tins and glasses , but Janet , wearing her other trouser suit . |