Example sentences of "could not [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were steps from one terrace to another but Susan could not yet see where they would lead in the end . |
| 2 | She turned her head on the pillow , so he could not properly see her face , only the Greuze-like line of her cheek . |
| 3 | As we came upon the moving picture with its ability not only to entertain us but also to analyse what we could not easily see with the unaided eye , we began to recognize that we had new tools for discovery ; we now knew exactly how a horse used its feet in galloping , what an explosion was like in slow motion , what a street looked like to the condensed eye of the time-lapse camera . |
| 4 | It did not matter that Ben could not physically see the pages of the journal : in his mind he could turn them anyway and read the tall columns of cyphers . |
| 5 | I could not even see as far as the mouth of the burn . |
| 6 | Perhaps you could not even see the windows of the School from where he was . |
| 7 | From their lofty height of existence , it was as if they could not even see him . |
| 8 | Charles could not even see the A.S.M. who was reading his lines , though he knew the youth would be keeping him in view to watch for signs of difficulty . |
| 9 | She could still see only his profile , and when he moved away , into the room 's shadows , she could not even see that . |
| 10 | She had pulled her veil right over her face so that they could not even see her eyes . |
| 11 | Like Tom , she could not really see Liza in the role of ministering angel , nor could she imagine her out in all weathers driving a tractor . |
| 12 | But she could not really see herself with whatever it was : vase , or rug or necklace , trying to sell it . |
| 13 | She spun round , but she could not quite see him . |
| 14 | Tom Tremayne had seen to that and Liza , irresponsible and hedonistic as she was , could not quite see herself leaving Harriet holding the baby while she went off to undertake some kind of training . |
| 15 | The crows attacked and her movements were strangely slow and disorientated as if she could not quite see them , or make her wings and talons move as she intended . |
| 16 | Where there had been three men there were now a dozen , although he could not now see Diniz Vasquez . |
| 17 | Would-be interpreters studying the music could not only see Elgar 's intentions in the printed score , but could follow the creative process a stage further — to the ultimate stage , in fact , and hear the creator realize his work in its natural medium , that of sound . |
| 18 | In the lighted deckhouse he could not only see old Willis , fiddling about with what looked like tins and glasses , but Janet , wearing her other trouser suit . |
| 19 | I could n't exactly see you two clicking . |
| 20 | It towered so far above me I could n't even see the top of it . |
| 21 | The entire Met staff climbed up the ladder to the roof to check on the visibility — well , that 's a laugh , we could n't even see the runway , and I do n't suppose the pilots could either . |
| 22 | They probably could n't even see him . |
| 23 | I flew too high , and then I was going higher , faster , I could n't stop , like a feather finding a vent I just shot up to the spindle , and there I stuck , dangling in zero-g I kicked and flailed , I was hopeless , I had no idea how to get away I had n't got anything I could throw I could n't even see straight anyway , my eyes were tearing The pollution was pretty bad up there , I started coughing , and then I could n't stop |
| 24 | What could have possessed him to want somebody he could n't even see ? |
| 25 | She pictured Jezrael back home after a shift at Nutristem , laughing and ranting over some petty injustice , wry with self-mockery , a crusader with no shield but a vivacity she could n't even see . |
| 26 | Jezrael could n't even see the rest of her squad at work in the power-room , but they were . |
| 27 | She stabbed at the recorder controls , though her eyes were blurred with tears and she could n't even see them . |
| 28 | The snow was so thick you could n't even see the signposts . |
| 29 | The snake was still inside the leg , and I could n't even see it . |
| 30 | Ominously , she could n't even see the road when she peered down out of the high window . |