Example sentences of "i could see [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She still called it that ; and indeed , beyond the line of evergreen trees beside the main road south of the Lebanese city of Tyre , I could see above the coastline a faint , thin grey line of hills inside Galilee on the other side of the Israeli frontier . |
| 2 | I could see into the hallway . |
| 3 | Light was coming from Duke Michael 's window opposite me across the moat , and I could see into the room . |
| 4 | I could see into the pen and the sight was rewarding . |
| 5 | Through this hole I could see into the room next to the hut . |
| 6 | ‘ All I could see of the explosion was this huge cloud of dust . |
| 7 | And I could see during the week this was , in the mornings you know , say about eight or nine to ten in the morning , and I could see the figures of the ladies there , cleaning the windows in the morning . |
| 8 | I took a step forward so I could see over the edge . |
| 9 | I looked at my watch , the time was just after 11 p.m. and I could see through the doorway the rain was still driving hard . |
| 10 | They were not very young , and from the back-slapping and laughter I could see through the glass rear doors in fine form . |
| 11 | U From my vantage point I could see through the railings into the front garden where Shep was slinking noiselessly into position beneath the stones . |
| 12 | Recently I went outside on a clear night , and started to count the stars I could see inside the Square ; using × 7 . |
| 13 | This much I could see from the outside when I went down to have a look at it . |
| 14 | He had n't slept in a bed like that before , yet there were all those advertisements for them on television , and they were on display in shop windows and in almost all the big stores in London so that I 'd imagined them in all the houses I could see from the bus . |
| 15 | I could see from the onlooking faces that he was coming for me and at what speed , and when I felt the air behind me move and heard the brush of his clothes I went down fast on one knee and whirled and punched upwards hard into the bottom of his advancing rib cage and then shifted my weight into his body and upwards so as to lift him wholesale off the floor , and before he 'd got that sorted out I had one of his wrists in my hand and he ended up on his feet with me behind him , his arm in a nice painful lock and my mouth by his ear . |
| 16 | If it had been impossible for one reason or another to use a boat on the water I would have done the best I could with a plummet and noted what I could see from the banks . |
| 17 | I could see from the diagram how the back of the work should look , what I was not prepared for was how the front of the work could look . |
| 18 | She had lean flanks and no tummy , and I could see from the way her breasts moved slightly when she walked that she wore nothing underneath her blouse ; I also had the feeling that she knew instantly that I knew . |
| 19 | I had to see Helen , After all , she was just over that hill which I could see from the top windows of the Grand . |
| 20 | Badly , that is , if you were the owner , for I could see from the outside that the shelves provided loads of blind spots for shoplifters well out of sight of the cash till . |
| 21 | I could see from the four small puncture marks on Fenella 's wrist that she had tried to stroke him during lunch . |
| 22 | But I could see from the look in his eyes that he did not believe me . |
| 23 | Yes , I could see by the way she grumbled about Wilson that she loved him and , although he was over eighty at the time , still saw him in a romantic light . |
| 24 | Dad moved slowly towards Mum and I could see by the look of him that he was furious . |
| 25 | I could see by the light of his torch that the cave was deep and spacious ; I could not make out from the beam of light its total dimensions , but clearly a man would have had no problem stretching out to sleep there . |
| 26 | For example , the Oracle might say , ‘ I could see in the stars that the Feast would take in the foolish , I told my master to prepare for a great revenge ’ , and then have the Oracle tell the adventurers the story of the Poison Feast from the Drachenfels novel in full , if the players have n't read that book . |
| 27 | I could see in the wing mirror that my arrival had provoked some interest . |
| 28 | From what I could see in the mirror he looked more interested in you than in the bureau . ’ |