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Example sentences of "could [not/n't] see her [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	He could not see her hair , which was wound tightly into a turban of peacock-feathered painted silk , low on her brow .
2	She knew enough , now , to be aware that , although Johnny could see her friends , could talk to them and touch them , he could not see her world .
3	Susan did not answer at once ; in fact , she was silent for such a long time that Breeze , who could not see her face , wondered if she had fallen asleep .
4	He could not see her face , since it was turned from him , but there was something about her that made his heart stand still .
5	The veil came from her head to her feet ; she could see out through it , but we could not see her face .
6	Gabriel could not see her face .
7	He could not see her face now .
8	A love struck farmer 's daughter was told she could not see her sweetheart .
9	Downstairs you could n't see her hair because it was all screwed up in a knot .
10	The pianist was complaining about the sunbeam which was falling across her face so that she could n't see her music .
11	She bent her head so he could n't see her blush at the thought that he meant their own relationship , and pretended to do something to the heel of her shoe .
12	She was lying almost abeam of us , and at first I could n't see her hull , but only a sort of thickening of the mist that turned out to be her mast .
13	But Camille had turned back to her toenails and could n't see her mother 's face .
14	I could n't see her face but I knew she was older than I was .
15	I could n't see her face very clearly now , but could sense how she 'd withdrawn from me .
16	Although I could n't see her face properly , her tongue was painting my image by numbers .
17	If it was Memet , she would prefer to greet him out here in the dusk , in darkness just burnished with the overspill glow from the street lamps , where he could n't see her face .