Example sentences of "could [verb] [adv] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I knocked on it but it was so dilapidated that I could see right through the door frame and into a large room where a man was sitting in a kitchen chair , dressed in trousers and vest . |
| 5 | Jessamyn could see right through the hole in the dead man . |
| 6 | There was no key in the lock , so he could see in through the big old-fashioned key-hole . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought we could move up through the shop , better ourselves . |
| 9 | When the wind was south-westerly , and it usually was , they made the hearth at the north end of the house so that the smoke could filter out through the stones . |
| 10 | With a dado rail you would hang all of one type first , but we did n't do this as we needed both pieces wet so we could cut right through the overlap point with a sharp knife and remove both pieces of waste to leave a perfect butt joint . |
| 11 | The longer this persisted , the hotter the planet got , because energy from the Sun could penetrate down through the clouds but was incapable of escaping back out through them ( the famous ‘ greenhouse effect ’ ) . |