Example sentences of "she [modal v] [verb] [pron] through the " in BNC.

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1 That she could retain it through the tough years of the Depression with no outside help and very little money is remarkable .
2 Perhaps she could smell me through the door .
3 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 .
4 She could see nothing through the thick clouds of dust that choked her .
5 Again she glanced at the windscreen of the other car but she could see nothing through the darkened glass .
6 She could see him through the shutters — a big man , a Berber , a kind-looking man with bright blue eyes and tattoos .
7 Just faintly she could hear the sound of the river , and she opened the window and leant out until she could glimpse it through the trees , the water still shrouded in clouds of early-morning mist .
8 Lesley 's family , colleagues and friends were praying she would make it through the first critical hours .
9 On my last full day in her house , Mrs Knelle declared that she would drive me through the mountains of Joyce 's Country to the edge of Connemara .
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