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Example sentences of "you [modal v] n't see " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ You must n't see what we 're doing , ’ said Phyllis .
2	‘ You must n't see it like that ! ’
3	Yeah but if everybody says no you must n't see
4	‘ Are you sure you should n't see a doctor ? ’ asked Apricot , as Rhoda 's cough grew nastier .
5	Downstairs you could n't see her hair because it was all screwed up in a knot .
6	She wore white ankle socks ; my mother preferred me to wear fawn knee-length ones , but our skirts and berets were the same except mine had a leather band inside you could n't see .
7	You could n't see the card until you unfolded the handkerchief and now Wexford looked at it for the first time .
8	Sometimes on a winter afternoon it would start coming in and get so black you could n't see .
9	The windows were like the windows of the children 's ward where Baby used to be , of white glass which you could n't see through .
10	It was smelly inside , made you feel as though you were choking to death and the eye-holes so small you could n't see out properly .
11	This had now been soldered to the main building so well that you could n't see the join .
12	‘ The smoke , you could n't see , it was like thick fog everywhere .
13	Often at this time of day , when he felt the day 's journey should be ending or reaching a destination , but knowing that it was not , knowing that what he was looking for probably happened after everybody else had gone home , he wished that he could end his days walking at the edge of a sea or a lake so big that you could n't see its other shore .
14	Waistcoats or sleeveless pullovers sometimes worn with suits , though you could n't see them when the top button was done up .
15	I had about five barges to look after and you could n't see everyone — not that I cared so very much , to tell the truth .
16	I was wrapped up in an officer 's uniform ; you could n't see me for fur and leather .
17	Working out the visibility was easier as we did have guidelines here — a tree on the other side of the airfield was at 1,000 yards , a distant farmhouse 2 miles , and if you could n't see the briefing room it was foggy .
18	There were inscriptions half buffed from the surface , but you could n't see what shrine they came from. ,
19	Men wearing white gloves moved it , but you could n't see them do it as the bodies were out of shot . ’
20	When the hatches were shut you could n't see where they were , but whenever the Thing was really interested in something it opened up and extended a small silver dish on a pole , or a complicated arrangement of pipes .
21	It went so fast you did n't know how fast it was going ; it went so high you could n't see how high it was .
22	Edge on , you could n't see it at all .
23	You could n't see the trains but you could hear them .
24	And the brown part was n't the earth , but thousands and thousands of baby gulls , packed so tight you could n't see the grass under them !
25	Her mother was too full of mine and thine , you could n't see her sharing her house with another family .
26	Old colliers used to say that in the mines sometimes you could hear noises that were not just the noise of settlement or movement but something different , the feeling that someone else that you could n't see was working near you .
27	to do erm wallpaper and we , we loved and wallpaper and you , is there , you could n't see the book anywhere , er probably in London you could , but erm round here you could n't , but they had the book down here .
28	You could n't see his expression , but Preston knew it would be anxious .
29	Brushing my hair set my teeth on edge but I finally got most of it laying down , and at least you could n't see my new bumps from the front .
30	On the Dipper , if you had your eyes shut and your ears plugged up — so you could n't see or hear what was going on — and you just thought about how heavy or light you felt , and what was happening to your tummy — you would n't know for sure what was happening .