Example sentences of "could [vb infin] see [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | I wish you could 've seen them , ’ said the housekeeper , her arms akimbo , her plump face flushed with indignation . |
2 | When the Pack met the following week the broken fence had been repaired and the DANGER notice repainted in vivid red , so that no one could miss seeing it . |
3 | Anything else we could try to see what 're in a third ? |
4 | Her husband 's gooseberry eyes shot in her direction , then looked at Greg , who lowered his noticing eyes to his knees and thus looked , if he could have seen himself , the picture of guilt . |
5 | There she could have seen what dreadful things happen in families . |
6 | The man stopped the car for the fifth and last time , and there , right outside where Boy lived , they kissed , passionately , scandalously , because by now people were up and there was traffic passing , the first buses and freight lorries on the Commercial Road ; people could have seen them . |
7 | Once I could have seen them off by asserting that I had no interest in such things , preferring to live from one day to the next , unfettered by possessions and responsibilities . |
8 | I have been here over a week now , and I miss you very much , and I miss the fresh air and the fresh faces of all those people I so hated on the Tube and the fresh things that happened every hour of every day if only I could have seen them — their freshness , I mean . |
9 | ‘ I wish you could have seen them . ’ |
10 | I wondered what Stewart Wilson , the Oxford don who had suggested it , would have said if he could have seen me . |
11 | If only she could have seen me skulking around at Cliff Top , the very picture of melancholy . |
12 | I only wish Daddy could have seen me in the black lace dress . |
13 | But who could have seen her in the park and reported back this quickly ? |
14 | That the kakar had seen the tigress was quite evident , and the only place where she could have seen her was on the track . |
15 | ‘ You should have waited till the morning , then we could have seen her together . |
16 | She had a view through the windscreen but no one could have seen her in the back . |
17 | Memories of the marathon " sew-in " before she left home for the International Youth Congress could not have failed to bring a smile to Eva 's lips , or those of her sisters , if they could have seen her stitching away patiently and efficiently on a hand-driven sewing machine . |
18 | If he 'd been on the train and had walked with the other racegoers towards the station , Filmer could have seen him through the window … and just the sight of him had caused the tensing of the neck muscles … and if Filmer had n't yet paid him for whatever … then he would come back to the train … |
19 | Whoever was inside could have seen him from the windows . |
20 | He said : ‘ I could have seen him this morning before your lot arrived but I funked it . ’ |
21 | In fact there were only 12 points between 20th and 6th places , a couple of away wins and a little luck could have seen us finish around 8th . |
22 | ‘ I just wish I could have seen his face clearly for one last time . ’ |
23 | I suppose any number of people could have seen you leave it there . ’ |
24 | Before the surrounding land was built over in the last century and subsequently , you could have seen it from miles away in every direction . |
25 | It had to be lifted off the track each night to prevent possible vandalism which could have seen it trundling down to Staveley on the falling grade ! |
26 | One recorded of its first drill , ‘ if only the Kaiser could have seen it it would have made his Imperial Hunship feel frightfully sick ’ . |
27 | It was likely that , just as Theodora had seen the car from the bridal path , Miss Dersingham could have seen it from the House . |
28 | Surely there was no way she could have seen it before . |
29 | The fracture was clearly visible on the X-ray , and even Joe Reynolds could have seen it . |
30 | I wrapped it up or you could have seen it . |