Example sentences of "could [verb] through the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Claudia put her hands to her burning face and wished she could fall through the floor . |
| 2 | Ember would n't even tell her what from , but she could sense through the flux of data that came from her paling blue awareness that the others had something planned for her , something that she did n't want . |
| 3 | His voice was guarded , but through it all she could hear the yearning and she wished she could break through the barriers he 'd erected against her ; she dearly wanted him to reveal his true self . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And I could run through the wood . ’ |
| 6 | The steel tape had to be cut with wire-cutters , then soldered , and then it had to be ‘ tempered ’ before it could run through the machine — which it did with a loud clang ! |
| 7 | Hounds could run through the place tomorrow … " it was Dada 's voice , and it sounded desperate . |
| 8 | After we had mounted the third hill , we found the country one continued village , tho' mountainous every way , as before ; hardly a house standing out of a speaking distance from another , and … we could see that almost at every house there was a tenter , and almost on every tenter a piece of cloth , or kersie , or shalloon , for they are three articles of that country 's labour ; from which the sun glancing , and , as I may say , shining ( the white reflecting its rays ) to us , I thought it was the most agreeable sight that I ever saw , for the hills , as I say , rising and falling so thick , and the valleys opening sometimes one way , sometimes another , so that sometimes we could see two or three miles this way , sometimes as far another ; sometimes like the streets near St Giles 's , called the Seven Dials ; we could see through the glades almost every way round us , yet look which way we would , high to the tops , and low to the bottoms , it was all the same ; innumerable houses and tenters , and a white piece upon every tenter . |
| 9 | All Robert could see through the keyhole was the blur of Mr Malik 's grey jacket , passing and repassing ; he seemed to be running , now in one direction , now in another . |
| 10 | U From my vantage point I could see through the railings into the front garden where Shep was slinking noiselessly into position beneath the stones . |
| 11 | You could see through the window . |
| 12 | It would , I hoped , create the illusion that you could see through the base , dispelling any impression there was an operator inside . ’ |
| 13 | From the outside of the Opéra-Comique in the 9th arrondissement of Paris , you could see through the windows on the ground floor to where vast bales of orange and pink and purple cloth were being unwound by workmen , laid out and cut into huge rectangles and squares . |
| 14 | I looked at my watch , the time was just after 11 p.m. and I could see through the doorway the rain was still driving hard . |
| 15 | All you could see through the gap was a strip of wall and half a fridge . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They were not very young , and from the back-slapping and laughter I could see through the glass rear doors in fine form . |
| 19 | Ruth noticed , with a tightening of the throat , that she could see through the glass rubble . |
| 20 | From any starting point we could move through the maze in such a way as to recreate the dodo , the tyrannosaur and trilobites . |
| 21 | The duration of the very short-term financing which central banks could draw through the EMCF was increased to three and a half months ( an increase of one month ) . |
| 22 | Then he could sleep through the drive and the laborious business of make-up . |
| 23 | It had to do something , because uncertainty had to be brought to an end ; but only enlightened bureaucrats at the centre could cut through the diversity of opinion in the provinces . |
| 24 | so they , I mean they flogged the cheaper lines and they could have through the door like |
| 25 | There was a card game next door whose progress he could hear through the partition wall . |
| 26 | Either one of them could walk through the door into the hall and end this angry and unhappy meeting . |
| 27 | Carla took her shoes off and loosed his arm so that she could walk through the lip of foam . |
| 28 | Says another curator , ‘ Rusty may not have the vision to say , ‘ We need a Guido Reni at the National Gallery ’ he 's not the sort of person who could walk through the baroque galleries and realise they even need one , though if a curator went to him wanting to buy one , I think Rusty would certainly be supportive of the move , whereas Carter would basically have turned up his nose and said ‘ no ’ ’ . |
| 29 | The colouring could pass through the shell into the egg , especially if the shell were to break during cooking . |
| 30 | John Durno , governor of Saughton prison , said yesterday that up to 200 prisoners could go through the programme in the year . |