Example sentences of "[not/n't] see [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could not see her hair , which was wound tightly into a turban of peacock-feathered painted silk , low on her brow . |
| 2 | Dorothy did not see her brother again for nine years , and never once returned to the family home in Cockermouth before the death of her father in 1783 . |
| 3 | Susan did not answer at once ; in fact , she was silent for such a long time that Breeze , who could not see her face , wondered if she had fallen asleep . |
| 4 | PRINCESS DIANA has been told she can not see her sons until next Tuesday . |
| 5 | He could not see her face , since it was turned from him , but there was something about her that made his heart stand still . |
| 6 | He does not see her face : it seems that she is not the Juanita he has kept in his mind : yet he is haunted by an inexplicable likeness and is perturbed by the young American 's cool reception of his warning . |
| 7 | The veil came from her head to her feet ; she could see out through it , but we could not see her face . |
| 8 | Gabriel could not see her face . |
| 9 | In the darkness , Cardiff could not see her lips moving , and almost shouted back at her : It 's your brother ! |
| 10 | She knew enough , now , to be aware that , although Johnny could see her friends , could talk to them and touch them , he could not see her world . |
| 11 | I think he is beloved by Alice Fenwick , but does not see her devotion . |
| 12 | With her back against the sun , her face was shadowed so that he could not see her eyes . |
| 13 | He could not see her face now . |
| 14 | ( she rolls her eyes , knowing that he can not see her face . ) |
| 15 | This feature is barely touched on by Chiaro , perhaps because she does not see her sub-title " word-play " in terms of semantic violations . |
| 16 | A love struck farmer 's daughter was told she could not see her sweetheart . |
| 17 | Always start ‘ Tall , good-looking Mary Smith , as she stepped out of her cottage that morning , did not realize she would not see her children until the following , three months later . |
| 18 | If the bird 's head disappears behind some small obstruction , the cat can be seen to rush forward and pounce , as though it knows that at that moment the bird can not see its rapid advance . |
| 19 | Despite its enormous membership , the LNU in the 1920s had not been a popular movement — it did not see its function primarily as campaigning to change Government policy . |
| 20 | We shall not see its like again . |
| 21 | Psychology does not see its age bias as a problem . |
| 22 | He could not see its full extent from where he stood , but knew that it filled the Ch'ang Chiang basin , eight hundred li south to the mountains , a thousand li east to west . |
| 23 | Criticism can not see its role as ‘ putting right ’ previous errors as though academic study was part of a stream of emendation aimed at achieving some final truth about texts . |
| 24 | Although the local authority was sympathetic to her problem , the sum of money available to it for discretionary grants had been severely cut in recent years , so it could not see its way to helping her further . |
| 25 | They heard it through the clatter of their engines , but they could not see its faults . |
| 26 | The obvious corollary of this is that less qualified ambulance workers , who are largely engaged in driving non-urgent cases , would not see their earnings rise by so much . |
| 27 | Sons William , 10 , and eight-year-old Harry will be at boarding school in Wokingham and will not see their father . |
| 28 | But the first generation did not see their opportunities as restricted : migration itself was an optimistic move . |
| 29 | The clerk was instructed to inform Mr. Johnson however that the guardians ‘ did not see their way to continuing supplying champagne ’ . |
| 30 | In a poignant discussion of the hypothesis that Southern slave owners did not see their slaves as human beings he disagrees : |