Example sentences of "could see [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This second metal was very strange as we could see through it to some mysterious writing and pictures . |
| 32 | From the outside of the Opéra-Comique in the 9th arrondissement of Paris , you could see through the windows on the ground floor to where vast bales of orange and pink and purple cloth were being unwound by workmen , laid out and cut into huge rectangles and squares . |
| 33 | U From my vantage point I could see through the railings into the front garden where Shep was slinking noiselessly into position beneath the stones . |
| 34 | An elderly woman had appeared out of the kitchen which Edwards could see through the half-opened door at the end of the small hallway . |
| 35 | He remembered the admiring glances of the other boys , and the expression of ineffable contempt on the face of the young Hilary Frome , an expression that told him that even an eleven-year-old could see through him , could tell he was no good . |
| 36 | I did notice that we could see through the one that brought us here , ’ said Twoflower . |
| 37 | You could see through them you know . |
| 38 | I could see through slitted eyes many people who had the comfort of being three-dimensional , walking and talking words that I knew . |
| 39 | All Robert could see through the keyhole was the blur of Mr Malik 's grey jacket , passing and repassing ; he seemed to be running , now in one direction , now in another . |
| 40 | He slumped , then turned slightly , staring through the gloom of the house towards the north , as if he could see through the walls , through the wood , to that place of battle , that cold place , which lay northwards and to which he and Tallis — as everything that passed this way seemed to be moving . |
| 41 | But , as she gazed around at the chintz sofas , and the French-provincial-style velvet-upholstered dining-room chairs — which she could see through a far open doorway — it occurred to Laura that maybe it was the only way to preserve such sumptuous furnishings on a shoreline likely to be damp and salty in the latter part of the year , while , outside the large windows , she could see automatic sprinklers drenching the fine green lawns that ran down to the beach . |
| 42 | She 'd never been able to lie to Candy — the other woman knew her too well , could see through her straight away . |
| 43 | ‘ You assumed , from the beginning , that you could see through me . ’ |
| 44 | Her eyes moved contemptuously over him , and then started to flicker , dart , race over him , staring fixedly as she realised his clothes were irrelevant ; she had X-ray vision , could see through his shirt , see every muscle , sinew , black hair … |
| 45 | You could see through the window . |
| 46 | That Bess could see through her casement , the road that he would ride . |
| 47 | They had their own windows with dark blue oil-cloth roller-blinds through which Dot could see into the compartment of the train alongside just like looking over at a next-door house . |
| 48 | Then it rumbled along a bridge , so Dot could see into the friendly clutter of people 's back yards , down into bomb-sites to view the mystery of chaos . |
| 49 | Trent walked round through the lean-to kitchen and stood in the doorway , from where he could see into the restaurant . |
| 50 | Simone Lantain , who lives in London , went to see a healer who could see into past lives . |
| 51 | Half the wall of the next house had been blown out , and he could see into the room beyond . |
| 52 | ‘ If anyone could see into my heart , I should feel quite ashamed ’ , he wrote to his wife . |
| 53 | She could see into him . |
| 54 | To the left , he could only at first see his own garden , his tennis court , the old wall that screened his vegetables — to eat what one has grown , actually to eat that ! — but then , across a low hedge and a fence that needed repair , he found he could see into the garden of the new Rectory , whose impersonal little back windows faced the same way as his own . |
| 55 | He shuddered with pleasure , wishing he could see into the darkness of this other , and know its face . |
| 56 | I could see into the hallway . |
| 57 | But when I bent down on some pretext and could see into his face it seemed possible that he was laughing at himself as well as flustered . |
| 58 | Light was coming from Duke Michael 's window opposite me across the moat , and I could see into the room . |
| 59 | He could see into the empty exercise yard . |
| 60 | I wondered if she could see into my mind , and I did n't care , for during that one short walk I had come to believe that Lili would not harm me . |