Example sentences of "could [verb] [pers pn] through the " in BNC.
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1 | If we could make it through the torrent to the bend ahead … |
2 | Perhaps she could smell me through the door . |
3 | She could see him through the shutters — a big man , a Berber , a kind-looking man with bright blue eyes and tattoos . |
4 | As Harry stood on the platform a minute or so later , watching the train pull out , he could see him through the brightly lit window , still immersed in his paperback , oblivious , it seemed , to Harry 's departure . |
5 | Rory could see him through the open door as he crossed from the bungalow , through the yard of machinery and tractors , and into the business block . |
6 | I could see you through the keyhole . |
7 | I felt sure I could work it through the orifice without cutting the sphincter . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | When he was n't teaching , Malik was usually on the phone , and you could hear him through the wall . |
10 | That she could retain it through the tough years of the Depression with no outside help and very little money is remarkable . |
11 | You could put it behind , you could feed it through the wall behind to where that |
12 | I wonder if I could get them through the education . |
13 | I wondered whether there was anything in the teaching of Tai-Fing that could get me through the next half an hour . |
14 | ‘ We could push it through the letter-hole and pull the trigger . |