Example sentences of "she [modal v] see nothing [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | She could see nothing through the night — and hear nothing other than the sound of rolling waves — until the outline of the steep cliffs towered above her . |
2 | She could see nothing through the thick clouds of dust that choked her . |
3 | Again she glanced at the windscreen of the other car but she could see nothing through the darkened glass . |
4 | At first she could see nothing except the river so many floors below them . |
5 | And then , when she looked at the high terrace with its pots of trailing geraniums , she could see nothing for the shadow was so intense — not the pale blob of a face or the movement of a hand — but she was suddenly as sure as she could be of anything that someone was standing there , looking down , waiting for them to get out of the car and watching them . |
6 | She did not even notice when Connor and Ruth took the children out of the kitchen , closing the door softly behind them ; she could see nothing but the hope and the love that shone in Ernest 's patient , trusting face . |
7 | Yet she could see nothing in the future but hurt for both of them . |