Example sentences of "[pron] could [vb infin] [adv prt] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cawthorne was leaning over the machine , blocking my view of anything else inside the bunker , and I slid around to check whether I could see in through the slits . |
| 2 | It was n't a slum terrace , as she had expected , but from what she could make out through the moonlight they were good working-class houses , each with its small rectangle of iron-railed garden in front . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought we could move up through the shop , better ourselves . |
| 4 | He pulled up and we could look down through the grey cloud-mist to the centre of the village where an old stone bridge and several houses were crumbling into the river . |
| 5 | There was no key in the lock , so he could see in through the big old-fashioned key-hole . |
| 6 | If he could root back through the maze of moment and incident , would he find premonitory signs sticking out like dire figurations of chicken entrails ? |