Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] through the winter " in BNC.
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| 1 | County cricketers were paid for the summer and only the best were given a reduced wage to see them through the winter . |
| 2 | He was much respected for his knowledge of golf courses , but was a throwback to the days when caddies wore old macs or tweed overcoats , slept rough in the summer , and in October committed a misdemeanour mild enough to ensure six months in jail to see them through the winter and send them out sobered up and refreshed for the new golf season . |
| 3 | These were the children some of the teachers looked down on because they came to school with unmended holes in their jumpers , or no proper shoes , only canvas sandshoes to see them through the winter . |
| 4 | Luckily this family all weighed in at over 15 grammes … and that means enough fat to see them through the winter . |
| 5 | Half-way down these walls , one of which backed onto the bathroom , slightly below waist-height there was a wide slate slab on which the pig used to be salted to preserve it through the winter . |
| 6 | This land of little more than 2m people and 24m sheep , enclosed between China and Russia in an area three times the size of France , had already appealed for emergency food aid to get it through the winter when the worst snows for 50 years hit three provinces in the south-west . |
| 7 | stuff like that , and they used to make them through the winter and come up here in the summer and sell them . |