Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [adv] see [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could n't see Ruane 's face because it was bent below the rim of the desk , as he put his shoes back on . |
| 2 | He could n't see Lee . |
| 3 | He could n't see Alina anywhere around . |
| 4 | But he could n't see Bertha because the bushes were too thick , and he could n't smell her because the smell of the myrtle was too strong . |
| 5 | He could n't see Fernando Serra and his beautiful companion or the crew dispersing for the night . |
| 6 | He could n't see curvature in the third dimension . |
| 7 | He could n't see people . |
| 8 | The Prior would eventually have to obey his superiors , no matter what his private thoughts on the matter , and he could n't see de Tracy going against the majority of England 's nobility . |
| 9 | Out of the corner of his eye he could just see Dan Ashton , the road-gang foreman and union representative . |
| 10 | He could just see boxes , litter blowing in the wind and rats scavenging for food . |
| 11 | He could just see Hasan , sitting , as usual , quite still , his hands resting lightly on the desk in front of him . |
| 12 | He could also see bits of horns or wings down the side . |
| 13 | Even in fantasy he could not see Terry Place settling down to a game of chess . |
| 14 | Ptolemy ranked it as of the first magnitude , and seems to have referred to it as ‘ the Last of the River ’ ; from Alexandria he could not see Achernar , though Acamar was visible low over the horizon . |
| 15 | He could not see Nona Pitt as the poisoner of her parents . |
| 16 | He could not see Mr Gordon . |
| 17 | He could almost see Richmann 's anger — that of the other man who had killed his mother in a similar fit of rage all those years ago . |
| 18 | He made the Poles on his territory pay double the level of taxes paid by Germans , encouraged the Poles to sell up and move out and refused to rent out Royal Estates to Poles , declaring that he would rather see Danzig merchants working Pomeranian soil . |
| 19 | The Collector had a feeling that even if he survived the siege he would never see Hari again . |