Example sentences of "to see [pers pn] through the [noun] " 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 | The woodmen never broke up those temporary dwellings which they built to see them through the weekdays of the felling season . |
| 6 | They have received it in the shape of detailed educational theory carefully worked out to see them through the maturation process from infancy to adulthood . |
| 7 | It seemed that all the intelligence had gone to Constance , leaving her brothers with only wariness and guile to see them through the vicissitudes of life , although , Scarlet had to admit , they could be surprisingly kind . |
| 8 | Senada and her children , Mevlida ( 16 ) , Sanel ( 15 ) , Saliha ( 12 ) and Jasmina ( 11 ) , now have changes of clothes to see them through the week , cash in their pockets , and the run of Bob 's kitchen and store-cupboards , which were pre-stocked with macaroni and pasta for their arrival . |
| 9 | ‘ I buy enough marmalade at local fayres to see me through the year . |
| 10 | I was on my way to Glen Nevis with enough gear to see me through the night . |
| 11 | Then Brandt went into a tea shop , in spite of feeling that his new landlady 's fried bread for breakfast was going to be more than enough to see him through the day . |
| 12 | Midge Ure was playing for nothing , just a few beers to see him through the evening . |
| 13 | If only Craig was at her side it would be so different , she needed his strength to see her through the ordeal , not only of the funeral but of the days and weeks that were to come . |
| 14 | Her parents travelled home in the first week of October leaving her with fields enriched by the presence of a few dozen sheep and enough advice to see her through the cow 's first calving and the sow 's first litter . |
| 15 | We have come to see it through the eyes of the people who take part in it . |