Example sentences of "could [not/n't] see [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maggie 's face flushed hotly and she was glad that Ana could not see her at that moment . |
| 2 | Though the hardpressed French could not see it at the time , something had in fact gone dramatically wrong with the meticulous German plans ; that is , with the Crown Prince 's plans . |
| 3 | It bothered him to let her go like this , but she 'd insisted ; for a while he could n't see her at all , until she reached the skyline and stopped for a moment . |
| 4 | I wriggled until I could peer over the edge into the wet depths below and I could n't see him at all . |
| 5 | He said , ‘ There was such a crowd round the chap on the table I could n't see him at first . |
| 6 | Edge on , you could n't see it at all . |
| 7 | And so as I grew up er they knew me and I knew them and I was to need one or two later on , for various reasons , but er you could n't see it at the time . |
| 8 | There is a rather improbable story that , when Captain cook first sailed into Botany Bay , Australia , the size of his ship was so far beyond anything that the local aborigines had ever seen that they could n't see it at all . |
| 9 | I could n't see anything at first and Mister Johnny said , sit still and wait , and I sat still , and then the island sort of moved . |
| 10 | And I could n't see anything at first . |
| 11 | She could n't see anything at all now , and there was an odd buzzing sound in her ears . |