Example sentences of "[adv] see [pos pn] [noun sg] in " 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 finished the glass of Kir and decided that he had better see his controller in person . |
| 3 | I could just see my face in it . |
| 4 | Ca n't you just see your mother in a pink floppy hat with cherries on it ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He could still see her painting in the garden . |
| 9 | I had been polishing it for what seemed hours and you could now see your face in it perfectly . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |