Example sentences of "see into [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I moved round behind his back , until I had seen into every part of the room .
2 He had also seen into the mind .
3 Every time Dustin saw his name in block letters on the marquee of a movie house , he was assailed with thoughts of his own mortality , a subject that constantly obsessed him , especially as he had already seen into the abyss .
4 Hiding near the door , I could just see into the kitchen through a small uncurtained window .
5 Scientists have been penetrating areas beyond human senses , and they have developed more and more devices to augment our senses in order that we may see into the heart of matter or reach the ends of the universe .
6 He shuddered with pleasure , wishing he could see into the darkness of this other , and know its face .
7 I could see into the pen and the sight was rewarding .
8 Half the wall of the next house had been blown out , and he could see into the room beyond .
9 Light was coming from Duke Michael 's window opposite me across the moat , and I could see into the room .
10 Through this hole I could see into the room next to the hut .
11 Trent walked round through the lean-to kitchen and stood in the doorway , from where he could see into the restaurant .
12 I could see into the hallway .
13 They had their own windows with dark blue oil-cloth roller-blinds through which Dot could see into the compartment of the train alongside just like looking over at a next-door house .
14 You can see into the mind of a normal , everyday man who has somehow become a murderer , he works in a way which is hard to understand , as everything he does is due to his obsession , which makes whatever he does perfectly acceptable to him , it 's almost as if he ca n't help it .
15 She was short-sighted a could not see into the auditorium .
16 But He hummed a little tune , cheery as a plague pit , and — pausing only to extract the life from a passing mayfly , and one-ninth of the lives from a cat cowering under the fish stall ( all cats can see into the octarine ) — Death turned on His heel and set off towards the Broken Drum .
17 Dazzled by the evening sun the people in the garden could not see into the sitting room and had no idea who Rain 's visitor was until Wickham joined them .
18 In the half-back window the lower half of the backing is closed in , but you can see into the shop itself through the top half .
19 How fortunate for the denizens of The Daily Herald , then , that they could not see into the future — even the immediate future !
20 His Albert Angelo ( 1964 ) has holes cut in its pages so that readers may see into the future , while his celebrated novel-in-a-box The Unfortunates ( 1964 ) is made up of loose-leaf sheets , intended , as a note on the box explains , ‘ to be read in random order ’ .
21 But I ca n't see into the future ’ .
22 I ca n't see into the future in the way you said your Aunt Liti could do , but I 'm certain of this , for I feel it in my bones .
23 ‘ Nobody can see into the future , and all stock exchange investment is a gamble .
24 The sorceress could see into the future , and she could see how her curse might again fall on us . ’
25 1 Where do we first learn about Auntie 's excellent eye-sight ? 2 Where do we first learn that Auntie can see into the future ? 3 How do we know that Auntie did not see the fire at the office block where she used to work ? 4 What exactly did Auntie foresee on the last afternoon of her life ? 5 Why did Auntie save Billy 's life , even though she knew that she herself would die ?
26 ‘ You 'd see into the future you mean ? ’
27 To the left , he could only at first see his own garden , his tennis court , the old wall that screened his vegetables — to eat what one has grown , actually to eat that ! — but then , across a low hedge and a fence that needed repair , he found he could see into the garden of the new Rectory , whose impersonal little back windows faced the same way as his own .
28 Greg elbowed his way through and got behind the engines , from where he could see into the garden .
29 ‘ You could n't see into the office from the kitchen ? ’
30 ‘ Exceptional Navigators can see into the warp from the normal universe ! ’
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