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I couldn't see him, but the electric bugging device gave steady beeps when it was straight ahead, short half beeps when the car I was following was to the left, and long drawn-out beeps when it turned to the right.
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I and couldn't
But Johnson couldn't quickly unwire the truck door, and if I escaped, he might suffer.
It was a disturbingly familiar face, too, but I couldn't remember where we had met.
`` I couldn't agree with you more ''.
veal cutlets: `` Oh, I couldn't possibly eat all this ''!!
`` I couldn't write with them in the same room with me, but I could with Harold.
No matter how large the fire, I couldn't seem to shake off the chill that day.
`` You see, once I relinquish the position I've already established here, I couldn't regain it without sacrificing the logic of it ''.
For a while there was such shrill girlish commotion I couldn't have made myself heard if I'd had the equivalent of the message to Garcia.
I couldn't face Thelma after that night.
I couldn't make out what his racket was.
I decided I hated the Pedersen kid too, dying in our kitchen while I was away where I couldn't watch, dying just to entertain Hans and making me go up snapping steps and down a drafty hall, Pa lumped under the covers at the end like dung covered with snow, snoring and whistling.
I couldn't be sure he was still asleep.
`` Why, I couldn't even cook a piece of antelope steak ; ;
I couldn't invite Viola to our house, for Mother snobbishly refused to receive her.
I admired their easy way of doing things but I couldn't escape an uneasiness at their way of always doing the right things.
I couldn't feel at home among them.
She it was who had looked to see if I was wearing shoes upon learning that I couldn't drive.
I couldn't tell one from the other.
I and see
There's someone there I have to see.
I could see them in my sights.
Far up the valley I could see the Rees circling and reorganizing.
I could see their faces glistening with sweat and bear grease, their mouths open, shouting their spine-chilling cries.
I could see the blood running down his chest.
Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.
It's bigger than it has to be, though I don't see where it's doing any harm.
Since they could see me but I not them, their presence in the hall disturbed me.
) hung on a hook on the wall, and underneath it I could see his tie, knotted, ready to be slipped over his head, a black badge of frayed respectability that ought never to have left his neck.
They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.
I decided to see no more of the clerk until the processing of my papers was completed.
I kept circling the block hoping to see, from the street behind it, the rear of the hall.
Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.
Past it I could see part part of a desk, a flag in a corner, a rug on the floor.
Like Luis, I can't see something like this happening to me.
`` Yeah, I can see that '', the friend was forced to agree.
Now turn around so I can see your face ''.
I can see Dan.
`` No, I never did see his face.
Her form was silhouetted and with the strong light I could see the outlines of her body, a body that an artist or anyone else would have admired.
In the half darkness I approached cautiously, making sure he did not see me.
`` Or do you want to see if I can stand fever, too ''??
There had been classroom guffaws which quickly subsided as Professor Griggs said dryly: `` I see your point, Pauson.
Our lifeboat was filling rapidly and despite what I had heard of the inhabitants of Eromonga, I was glad to see a long and graceful outrigger manned by three bronzed girls glide out of a lagoon into the open sea and toward our craft.
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