Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] can [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have I got my glasses with me or I ca n't see the prices . |
| 2 | Hope I 've got my glasses with me or I ca n't see the prices . |
| 3 | A child is often unacquainted with the precise and specialised social functions which are conventionally ascribed to either speech or writing and thus may be confused when asked to acquire ‘ skills ’ whose functions he or she can not see or act upon . |
| 4 | I open my eyes and try and look at my trousers to see if it 's true , but my eyes are all blurry and I ca n't see proper . |
| 5 | Someone must have sent the papers and I ca n't see that the corporals did it . |
| 6 | ‘ And I ca n't see 11-year-olds here burning round estuaries with a bloody great bowsprit and an asymmetric spinnaker . ’ |
| 7 | And I ca n't see anyone getting past Briant to this baby , or to its mother . |
| 8 | Anyway , you 're better off as you are : you 're a free agent and I ca n't see you married , somehow . |
| 9 | That would certainly cost money , and I ca n't see Father spending any on you in that way . |
| 10 | And I ca n't see them because of the trees and bushes everywhere . |
| 11 | And I ca n't see that what she said to me is any of your business . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ But Adams could run him close and I ca n't see any reason why he ca n't go on to get still more honours with Arsenal . ’ |
| 13 | And that 's why I think erm the West is making an enormous mistake in thinking that eastern European countries can suddenly become cos they never have been and I ca n't see any democratic now . |
| 14 | Something really obvious is staring at me and I ca n't see it . |
| 15 | He was a punctilious blighter and I ca n't see him using the Lab as a convenient place for a rendezvous . |
| 16 | ‘ And I ca n't see well . ’ |
| 17 | And I ca n't see any reason why they ca n't . |
| 18 | ‘ The only realistic alternative is to let the boy die , and I ca n't see our Harry wearing that . ’ |
| 19 | Now , I 've gone right through all the bloody rules to this and I ca n't see where this has been expired . |
| 20 | I 've looked with binoculars and I ca n't see them with the naked eye . |
| 21 | I 've got a lot of work to do tomorrow and I ca n't see Christian being up very early to help me . |
| 22 | ‘ Well sir , I think we can rule out natural causes and I ca n't see how dynamite could accidentally get under a table , so unless he committed suicide in a way that endangered the lives of other people , I think we must assume it was murder . |
| 23 | ’ I shouted merrily , beginning to experience an ache somewhere near my bladder that I sometimes get when things are going particluarly badly and I ca n't see any way out . |
| 24 | Francis was a young man when that happened and I ca n't see what it 's got to do with this . ’ |
| 25 | No and I ca n't see wh no well I , we made it , I 'm not against making it stronger , but I ca n't understand why this suggestion has been made . |
| 26 | That 's what we 're doing and I ca n't see anything here that prevents er , total cooperation between A the police , B the ambulance service and C the fire services . |
| 27 | and things , job families er , we 've got that already and we 've got , there 's gon na be the computer thing on careers but you see we 've only managed this year to get it brought down from year eleven , somebody who went into this , keeping it very close to myself , to bring it down to year ten they 're actually you know , it 's very , very difficult to let them remove it and I ca n't see that you can then make that down to ninth year just yet . |
| 28 | They had to get rid of a leader before they could bring themselves to admit that the poll tax was a mistake and I ca n't see John Major going before he loses the next election . |
| 29 | and I ca n't see any way out of it |
| 30 | ‘ It 's now half-past seven , and I ca n't see any sign of your phone call from Jeff . ’ |