Example sentences of "he could [verb] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he could sleep through the drive and the laborious business of make-up . |
| 2 | Sylvia , he felt , he could sense through the creaking , sleeping inn , was available , perhaps even awake . |
| 3 | But when he said so , hoping that they would find him a job away from the Zoo , they said instead that if he wanted he could work through the remaining years to his retirement as general helper and sweeper . |
| 4 | With the next general election not due until May 1960 , he had three years in which to establish himself as Prime Minister , provided he could ride through the political fallout from Suez . |
| 5 | In the middle of the long teak dining table lay Lilian Hatton 's wedding hat , an elaborate confection of satin leaves and tulle as green and fresh as the real leaves he could see through the picture window in the Kingsbrook meadows . |
| 6 | He slumped , then turned slightly , staring through the gloom of the house towards the north , as if he could see through the walls , through the wood , to that place of battle , that cold place , which lay northwards and to which he and Tallis — as everything that passed this way seemed to be moving . |
| 7 | When he crouched in the gap between the attic door and the first curve of the banister , he could look through the rails and see right along the ground-floor corridor to the kitchen . |
| 8 | There was a card game next door whose progress he could hear through the partition wall . |
| 9 | Melissa recalled Juliette 's words : ‘ He could slip through the forest as silently as a cat . ’ |