Example sentences of "[adv] see [pos pn] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cobalt 's mouth curved in his mischievous smile although she could only see her reflection in his lenses . |
| 2 | ‘ He 'd tied a black scarf , or a stocking , or something over his face , and I could only see his eyes between that and his hat brim . |
| 3 | He finished the glass of Kir and decided that he had better see his controller in person . |
| 4 | PATIENTS so short-sighted they could scarcely see their car from 25 yards can now see well enough without glasses or contact lenses to read its number plate . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll just see my father to a taxi and come back for you . ’ |
| 6 | I could just see my face in it . |
| 7 | Ca n't you just see your mother in a pink floppy hat with cherries on it ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He could just see his Mercedes with Dillon seated in the back . |
| 10 | One such gillie , towards the end of his career , carried out his duties more by instinct than by reason : he had always been shortsighted , but , nearing retirement , he could hardly see his hand in front of his face . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He could still see her painting in the garden . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , I can still see my mother at the urn . ’ |
| 14 | When the Orientals have a UK market share that justifies their building factories on your soil , you will gradually see their way of life coming into your homes . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I had been polishing it for what seemed hours and you could now see your face in it perfectly . |
| 17 | I nearly fell over him and he turned round , but I did n't really see his face in the dark , or if I did , I blocked it out I was so scared . |
| 18 | Its applicability to the eighteenth-century novel seems , on the other hand , to be less questionable , and one can equally well see its relevance to twentieth-century writers like John Fowles . |
| 19 | He is ‘ a gentleman with a rather perplexed expression of face , and with very grey hair disordered on his head , as if he did n't quite see his way to putting anything straight ’ , but kind and honest . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh I can quite see your point of view ’ is not a reaction that is on the agenda , quite frankly . |
| 21 | However , this size of fretwire should please more of the people more of the time , and you ca n't deny that the fret job is superb ; the ends are so well finished you can almost see your reflection in them . |
| 22 | They would never see their parents in quite the same way again , and ironically it was apt that they should not , because Timothy Gedge had not told lies entirely . |
| 23 | For although the chairman of the University Grants Committee , Edward Parkes , may have received his well-earned knighthood at the end of the year — in a batch meanly thin , as usual , on honours for the scientific community — many of the nation 's academics will never see their profession in the same rosy light . |
| 24 | How many girls or young women , with or without eating disorders , do actually see their periods in this light ? |