Example sentences of "[not/n't] see it " in BNC.

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1 If the follow-on now loomed large , Azharuddin could not see it .
2 We work all year round but ca n't work on the uplands during the winter months — we might not see it for six to eight weeks .
3 The British architects of the original partition did not see it , 70 years ago , as a supporting wall for the new Irish state they were hurriedly trying to build .
4 Of course I did not see it like that at the time .
5 What a sharp , sneering face he had had , though she could not see it , as she had not seen it in the darkness of her dream .
6 Although I could not see it , we were travelling beside the lake where all these controversies were raging .
7 At night I can not see it , and in the morning , it is gone .
8 ‘ My family did not see it but they heard the noise of the explosions .
9 Then , when he thought seriously about the reaction , it left him puzzled , because he did not see it as being especially controversial .
10 I could sense the steep drop to my left , though I could not see it due to the trees and thick foliage that lined the roadside .
11 In Red Rhino 's terms , it was a fantastically expensive record to make but Korda Marshall at RCA did not see it that way .
12 Food always tasted better when I could not see it .
13 I did not see it until I was standing on it .
14 One piece of South Cornish — and Plymouth — weather lore runs , ‘ When you can see Eddystone clearly , rain is on its way ; when you can not see it clearly , rain is already here ’ .
15 However desirable it is that they receive training , many do not see it as a practical proposition .
16 When Ramakrishna saw Kasi the Holy City , he did not see it as a physical city but as the dreams and hopes of holy pilgrims that had fallen on the city , stratum on stratum so that it became a city of holy ideas , a spiritual city .
17 Tennyson is portrayed here as one who , despite his reservations about its temper , did understand science , and did not see it as antithetical to the sphere of imagination .
18 Uses for the foam or suggested ones , are for keeping bank vaults safe and for applying pesticides to crops without polluting the air , I do not see it catching on .
19 Although he undoubtedly did not see it as such , what Jesus Christ was really doing was fighting to uphold the Second Choice as specified in this book .
20 But the raison déacute ; etre behind this concession was not so that the bowlers could swing the ball more : it was to prevent one ball becoming so discoloured that the batsman could not see it easily under the light of day-night games !
21 Writing in the Sunday Times on 27th October 1968 about the Grosvenor Square demonstrations , Miss Mary Macarthy suggested it was ‘ a unique improbable event , something to cherish in our memory book , for , short of Utopia , we shall not see it again ’ .
22 Four minutes later he claimed a second near Hal Far , but did not see it crash and had no witness , although he believed that the pilot of this aircraft also baled out .
23 But I can not see it solving the crisis of the socialist left .
24 Though he did not see it , the car swung in a U-turn , the gunman ran forward and climbed in the back seat .
25 ‘ I do not see it that way , but it 's all been built up now .
26 A further disincentive — although Mr Lawrence did not see it that way — was that the Prudential had never previously had a finance director , let alone strict internal financial controls .
27 What was found tomorrow , though they did not see it for newspapers were beyond their means , was a further notice from Robert Asshe to the effect that he would not be responsible for his daughter 's debts .
28 Their guides took them by a route well to the west of the main Annandale road , round the hill of Trailtrow , although they did not see it , avoiding the Brydekirk area , and on down the winding valley of a small stream running south-eastwards .
29 Moray and Robert Stewart had similar tales to tell of the poor leadership and rash foolishness at Halidon Hill , although being themselves young and inexperienced they did not see it in quite the same terms as had the veteran Keith .
30 ‘ You can not see it , you can not measure it by instrumentation , but there are incredibly powerful air currents up in the stratosphere which can move at anything up to 300 mph .
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