Example sentences of "could see nothing [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rostov peered past the screen at the porthole , but he could see nothing of the surface of the planet . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She could see nothing through the thick clouds of dust that choked her . |
| 4 | Again she glanced at the windscreen of the other car but she could see nothing through the darkened glass . |
| 5 | He climbed the stairs but could see nothing through the hammered glass panels of the front door . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Riven could see nothing for the water in his eyes , but when the dark shape of the hull loomed up he pushed Madra towards it . |
| 8 | To the right , as he walked down it , he could see nothing but the trees of his own orchard and , beyond them , the decorative ridge of a thatched roof , crowned with a squat brick chimney . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Scott could see nothing but the curling black tongue of water cutting through the centre of the city . |
| 11 | At first , in the fading light , we could see nothing but the icy path , the snow-covered trees on either side — but then the flicker of a candle flame caught our eyes . |
| 12 | Nails , suddenly awakened , could see nothing except the light . |
| 13 | She looked out of the window , but could see nothing except the darkness . |
| 14 | The causeway commanded a view of all this region of the moor , but once he had jumped down and was in the shallow bowl of Goughdale , he could see nothing except the remains of surface workings and the louring slopes of Big Allen . |
| 15 | At first she could see nothing except the river so many floors below them . |
| 16 | He could see nothing in the west . |
| 17 | Yet she could see nothing in the future but hurt for both of them . |