Example sentences of "[coord] could see " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked at it and could see no fault ; she thought of Lucy and did n't care . |
| 2 | I gazed upwards and could see a few stars twinkling in the sky , one seemed much brighter than the others . |
| 3 | We were then on the coast path , near an old abandoned aerodrome and could see ahead in the distance Wooltack Point near a cluster of islands . |
| 4 | She was poised now over her garden and could see the whole of it , laid out like a little world , from her great height . |
| 5 | He looked in the mirror and could see a gout of her smoker 's phlegm on his cheek . |
| 6 | Although such heresies were far more common in America and in England than they were in Ulster , Ulster Protestants knew of these postures and could see that their own denominations were in formal organizational contact with other churches which did not move to sack ministers and theologians who had obviously given up the traditional beliefs affirmed at their ordinations . |
| 7 | Moreover , elements of the personality cult had attained far wider resonance and , as we have seen in earlier chapters , can be said to have affected the vast majority of the population , leaving completely untouched only sections still wholly anchored ideologically in left-wing philosophies of life , those totally alienated by the attacks on the Churches , and a few exceptional individuals among intellectuals and members of the upper bourgeoisie who despised the irrationality of the Führer cult , were entirely nauseated by the populist vulgarity of Nazism , and could see national disaster looming . |
| 8 | Annunciata , with evident enjoyment , said Mrs Browning had the headache and could see no one . |
| 9 | I was truly disconcerted myself to have acquired so violent an enemy without meaning to and could see no resolution short of full retreat ; and the trouble was that since that morning 's schooling , any inclination to retreat had totally vanished . |
| 10 | ‘ I sat on the train and could see other commuters walking past looking at the man in horror . |
| 11 | I went to inspect and could see it was a half-plucked pheasant . |
| 12 | She looked up at Nina and could see that the girl did not recognise her . |
| 13 | But he desired the little glass key , because he was a craftsman , and could see that it had taken masterly skill to blow all these delicate wards and barrel , and because he did not have any idea about what it was or might do , and curiosity is a great power in men 's lives . |
| 14 | David might simply have been overwhelmed by his financial responsibilities towards his mother , and could see no immediate future for a life with you and did n't want to tie you down . |
| 15 | Then he arose in fear , and called for light , and it was brought him ; and he looked for the leper and could see nothing ; so he returned into the bed , leaving the light burning . |
| 16 | They drew down to the back of the hummock which remained an ivy-grown tump until they were within a few paces and could see rough-hewn timber planks behind it . |
| 17 | He stuck to these attitudes through the 1820s and after , and could see no reason to take up the new liberal and radical ideas , which aimed at further break-up of the existing order of things . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd been a partner for 10 years , I was 43 and could see another 17 years of PW partnership ahead of me . |
| 19 | She wished him goodbye , thanked him for coming and could see again the face of his wife on the only occasion she had met her : tight-lipped , unable to approve , fiercely loyal to John . |
| 20 | I looked from left to right to find somewhere to sit and could see nowhere . |
| 21 | In the distance she could hear a train coming and could see the yellow lights of the oil lamps in the signal box . |
| 22 | The commodore , having just tacked in from Pin Mill , says that while he recognises the accomplishment of an ancient mariner there in teaching a grey parrot to recite the complete works of Shakespeare in Urdu , and could see that this might help international relations in some way , he is far from certain this was the sort of thing Mr Major had in mind . |
| 23 | He called Stefan on the radio , who had a look round on the underside of the ‘ Fury and could see nothing wrong . |
| 24 | He was dismayed by the change in his old friend and could see the darkness in his soul warring with the light . |
| 25 | She had also become agnostic , and could see no sense in expecting a God to take the slightest interest in St Andrew 's . |
| 26 | The Prince galloped past the deserted Gemioncourt farm , through a bivouacked Dutch brigade , and did not rein in till he had passed the forward Dutch picquets and could see clear down the paved highway into the village of Frasnes . |
| 27 | We were camped out on a headland and could see groups of birds flying past . |
| 28 | It may be that he had quarrelled bitterly with his kin and could see no remedy for his plight . |
| 29 | One might remark that the working-class child considered it redundant to constantly refer to the presence of a picture since he knew that the researcher was present and could see it for himself . |
| 30 | Soon they were in grey twilight and could see that the stream bordered the farther edge of the wood . |