Example sentences of "could see [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through the open doorway Culley could see activity near the pit , and shadows jostling on the walls . |
| 2 | He could see Donna on the other side of the barrier heading towards a dark-haired woman , whom she embraced . |
| 3 | At the end she could see part of the ward , a gleaming parquet floor and white-painted bedsteads . |
| 4 | He could see part of the canal , part of a garden , barges loaded with potatoes , a rear view of houses being pulled down by workmen , and in the distance rows of trees and street lamps , a complicated little almshouse with its gardens , and finally a grand expanse of roofs . |
| 5 | I could see mist over the forests below the mountains , and fog out over the North Sea . |
| 6 | We could see snow on the moors . |
| 7 | He could see sorrow in the dark eyes which glowed as if there were candles burning behind them . |
| 8 | Still peering through the binoculars he could see movement on the other boat : two men looking ahead , one of them pointing towards The Abbott . |
| 9 | The door was ajar and Patrick could see movement inside the room . |
| 10 | An evening with a breeze ; I could see movement in the bracken that edged the track , and cloud-shadows moved from time to time over the sea-pinks . |
| 11 | I could see daylight through a keyhole . |
| 12 | He nodded , his mouth a bitter line , but she could see acceptance in the way he bowed his dark head , and she felt deep compassion for him , for his wasted life and wasted efforts and wasted pain . |
| 13 | Short and chubby , he once said that he was the only senior Hong Kong official who could see eye-to-eye with the equally diminutive Deng Xiaoping . |