Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 31 | the crews of the cutters did not always see the completed puzzle , and for obvious reasons were only given sufficient information on a need-to-know basis . |
| 32 | We must therefore allow for this even if we can not always see it . |
| 33 | ‘ Added to which the Reichsführer and Admiral Canaris do not always see eye to eye . |
| 34 | He has little knowledge of a shepherd 's life since he writes his idyllic poem from the town , as a wealthy poet , and can not possibly see the reality as one would have it from experienced eyes . |
| 35 | The imaginative may not unreasonably see in these actions the source of communal meal-taking in man and its importance to social life and ritual . |
| 36 | ‘ I can not honestly see that a system which would require us to compromise the morning after the election is really so morally inferior to a system which has already obliged us to compromise our policies two years before polling day . ’ |
| 37 | He has an appetite for land and castles I would not willingly see in the King himself , but he 's a more dangerous man than the King . ’ |
| 38 | Others do not often see this as a genuine option , however , so how may we present a more positive image ? |
| 39 | I was married by now , so I did not often see him . |
| 40 | Where there had been three men there were now a dozen , although he could not now see Diniz Vasquez . |
| 41 | Othello can not now see anything but dirt , Iago 's dirt . |
| 42 | ‘ I do not really see Ezra Pound in Rapallo , ’ Max Beerbohm told me . |
| 43 | I confess I can not really see worm watching catching on as a mass pursuit with worm watcher clubs and organised field visits , but I did hear of an infants ' school where the worm has joined the tadpole as a creature for study . |
| 44 | To his right and left spreads a familiar landscape , so familiar that he does not really see it , an expanse of houses and factories , warehouses and sheds , railway lines and canals , piles of scrap metal and heaps of damaged cars , container ports and lorry parks , cooling towers and gasometers . |
| 45 | Like Tom , she could not really see Liza in the role of ministering angel , nor could she imagine her out in all weathers driving a tractor . |
| 46 | Managers do not really see them as part of the assets of the unit . |
| 47 | But she could not really see herself with whatever it was : vase , or rug or necklace , trying to sell it . |
| 48 | The children are not being asked to do the exercises as a matter of course , when they can not really see the point . |
| 49 | They did not simply see an empty tomb and say : ‘ Coo , he must have risen ! ’ |
| 50 | If I am serious , I can not simply see the preservation of the countryside as a desire of a few people like myself , to be weighed in the balance against the desires of others for holidays abroad , when it comes to deciding on whether a new airport should be built in some place of outstanding beauty . |
| 51 | He did not even see her face . |
| 52 | Leo , you must tell her that it is Doctor 's Orders that she must not look after her father any more — that it is too much for her — that she need not even see her father until she is quite well enough , and the doctor has himself offered to find a suitable place , so that she will know her father will be well looked after . |
| 53 | We ended up in the desert and we did not even see the same mirage . |
| 54 | Theresa did not even see it . |
| 55 | He may not even see me . |
| 56 | SUBSTITUTE Paul Randall earned non-League Bath City a 2-2 draw with Northampton yesterday with a late goal he did not even see . |
| 57 | He did not even see an English newspaper . |
| 58 | I could not even see as far as the mouth of the burn . |
| 59 | But where this is successful , they will link their fortunes to capitalism , and will not even see the state as an oppressive part of the class struggle . |
| 60 | Perhaps you could not even see the windows of the School from where he was . |