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 . |