Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [verb] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | But along that bare and silvery rim of sand , any self-respecting wild thing could not fail to see me first . |
| 2 | Whatever the conditions and the nature of the crowd , observers could not fail to see that the movies were being enjoyed . |
| 3 | It was from the same haunts as the tarsier that the original " Wild Man of Borneo " — the orangutan , or " man of the forest " — was to reveal himself : a creature so vulnerable , so resonant with human emotion , that we could not fail to see ourselves in him . |
| 4 | I could not fail to see that all , men , women and children , wore nothing in the tropical heat but a band — in the case of the women this was quite ornate — around their middles , leaving everything else uncovered . |
| 5 | His eyes met hers , dark and secret with a light behind them that she could not fail to see . |
| 6 | Only she could not stop seeing the strange boy 's face . |
| 7 | This is the Marmeladov who married his present wife — not that that did any good either — because he could not bear to see such suffering . |
| 8 | I often thought her blindness was not entirely physical : she wanted finally to shut her eyes to the sorrows and miseries of the son she still adored , for she could not bear to see me suffering . |
| 9 | She had given the instruction herself , saying she could not bear to see the person who had been the instrument through whom she had heard such infamous news . |
| 10 | I could not bear to see him suffer and so I threw myself wholeheartedly on to Nonni 's side , arguing passionately that my aunts ' lack of interest in day-to-day matters was a boring affectation ; that Nonni was much more ‘ real ’ and ‘ closer to life ’ . |
| 11 | He records Smart 's statement that he ‘ must have finished an unfortunate life in jail had it not been for the good nature of a Friend , who could not bear to see his tears ’ . |
| 12 | Letterman implies that he had to divorce her for her own good ; he could not bear to see so much life force confined in marriage . |
| 13 | He could not bear to see the pale cream child tied to her back with his small head bobbing on her shoulder , or bundled to her breast , asleep in satisfaction after food . |
| 14 | She could not bear to see him so miserable and cast down . |
| 15 | He could not bear to see it , because Tess was not there . |
| 16 | ‘ I just could not bear to see someone so young , and so obviously above those two cats , caught helplessly in that bleak place ! ’ |
| 17 | I felt I could not refuse to see my aunt , perhaps for the last time . |
| 18 | She was transferred from home to a private rehabilitation centre , but she was not happy there because she had little privacy , and her family could not travel to see her every day . |
| 19 | Although I was sceptical as to the Brighton affair , I could not help seeing that there was rather a look about Mr Wilson sometimes ; for instance when , as occasionally happened , his wife 's leg was too bad for her to go shopping and he went alone . |
| 20 | Tolkien could not help seeing a part of himself in Fëanor and Saruman , sharing their perhaps licit , perhaps illicit desire to ‘ sub-create ’ . |
| 21 | I could not help seeing that the amendments sketched on the blackboard had been executed ; the modified organs were in place . |
| 22 | Postscriptum : I have had Mr. Williams released from prison though I could not wish to see him at present . |
| 23 | When Pope John xxiii visited prison he said to the inmates ‘ You could not come to see me so I have come to see you . ’ |
| 24 | Even the advent of the university had not done much to increase his sales , she considered shrewdly , since she could not recall seeing a single bookshelf in any of the homes of university staff which she had visited . |
| 25 | Slowly people began to realise it was not a miracle after all , but the reward for an enormous amount of hard work , planning and discipline which ensured they were the fittest and best-prepared England team ever , ; a very professional approach which saw them practising endlessly ; high-class line and length bowling , backed up by excellent fielding , which had the West Indian batsmen constantly under pressure ; sound batsmanship to build on the bowlers ' successes ; and a crackling team spirit fostered by Gooch which one could not remember seeing in an England team in years . |
| 26 | There was a light in her dark eyes that Julia could not remember seeing before her illness and yet there was sadness too . |
| 27 | Robert could not remember seeing him as disturbed as this . |
| 28 | Opposite them were two or three other characters Robert could not remember seeing before at the school . |
| 29 | He could not wait to see it all back safely in England and to start on his next publication . |
| 30 | The Prussians did not see , did not want to see , could not afford to see , this side of life in their border districts . |