Example sentences of "[vb mod] not see a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Are you sure you should n't see a doctor ? ’ asked Apricot , as Rhoda 's cough grew nastier .
2 ‘ But when they meet me , they may not see a kind creature who has helped them .
3 Eliot did not doubt the resilience or resolve of the British people ; but he remarked to me that he could not see a man like Neville Chamberlain coping with a major conflict .
4 ‘ It was a feeling of being suspended — it was not a negative feeling and not even a loss to be mourned , but I just could not see a way ahead .
5 A garrulous Welshman who could not see a beach without running along it .
6 She ran and ran but could not see a house anywhere , so she sat down under a flower to rest .
7 ‘ My headache just grew and grew and suddenly the light faded and I could not see a thing .
8 Some obvious and important matters were left to one side for years because I could n't see a way forward , or had no time to do the experiments — or could n't find the funds to buy the equipment or chemicals needed .
9 At first I could n't see a way of getting to the bus station at two o'clock in the afternoon because we were never free at that time , but my chance came quite unexpectedly .
10 Stephen could n't see a sign of its owner .
11 But they could n't see a boy in a red shirt .
12 They followed the white arrows painted on the road between the parked cars and at first they could n't see a space anywhere .
13 They had turned back to Sicily and I could n't see a formation but spotted a straggler who , curiously enough , was flying diagonally across our line of approach and not heading pell-mell for home .
14 If it 's the and that down it he could n't see a blockage .
15 He could n't see a horse playing badminton .
16 He could n't see a thing .
17 For one thing , she could n't see a thing in the blackout without her glasses ; and for another , the uniform was n't half attractive enough .
18 I could n't see a thing .
19 No matter where I looked I could n't see a gleam of light .
20 He hurried out into the garden but to his disappointment he could n't see a pear tree anywhere let alone one with a partridge in it .
21 It was very packed in there but I could n't see a lot of anything .
22 I could n't see a car .
23 So th they , yo yo you could n't see a situation where the person who er was previously in disgrace , was no longer in disgrace , and the one , the the the brother , then showing je jealousy , was himself in disgrace .
24 ‘ I looked at the walls in the Goldie boathouse and saw the names of all the crews and could n't see a cox with three wins on the trot .
25 Dougal could n't see a television in the room .
26 It was the Regent Street of Cairo ; except that in Regent Street you would not see a man walking by with a stuffed crocodile on his head or a pig being carried by in a cage .
27 Yeah , but even so , the well it , you 're I would n't see a film .
28 Erm , is there any other reason in the poem and I 'm going away from questions now but is there any other reason in the poem why erm why it , why he would n't see a forest or a fox out of the window ?
29 After all , I ca n't see a girl like you giving up her freedom to live in a squalid little room above a shop — and , believe me , without help Peter certainly ca n't afford anything else . ’
30 If we ca n't see a way to market it effectively then we would probably decide not to take it on .
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