Example sentences of "she [modal v] [verb] through the " in BNC.

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1 But perhaps , by telling him of it she might break through the shell of quiet self-sufficiency and recollection that had kept her at bay since his return from Student Cross .
2 She 'll walk through the door and we 're , we 're chomping away .
3 ‘ They say she 'll sleep through the night .
4 Carla took her shoes off and loosed his arm so that she could walk through the lip of foam .
5 She was half-turned from him , letting her eyes follow the beams and wishing she could drift through the open doors as easily as the nets lifted in the seasonless breeze .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Claudia put her hands to her burning face and wished she could fall through the floor .
9 Ruth noticed , with a tightening of the throat , that she could see through the glass rubble .
10 She used to squeeze through the fence and bring me her bones .
11 Then , knowing that she was safely tucked up in her own bed , she would go through the mental exercise as she had done under hypnosis and imagine herself entering that cupboard under the stairs .
12 She followed his leaping figure , half-dreading the moment when she would pass through the arch into that claustrophobic , dank , river-smelling darkness and would hear , unnaturally loud , the suck of the canal against the paving stones and the slow drip of water from the low roof .
13 She would walk through the house , dressed to go out , relishing the silence , the order , the shine of polished wood in the sun .
14 She no longer woke up wondering why she was alive , wondering how she would get through the day .
15 She would get through the next few days of being in the same house as Piers and then she would leave , and she would somehow get through the rest of her life without him .
16 She came to It via an employment agency , and , while others slept on the floor , worked , argued , or posed , she would work through the clerical , jobs , type , organize .
17 Then she would glance through the books she had bought , because she had to make a report on them .
18 If Rosie was released from her collar and chain , she would charge through the house and grounds like a homicidal maniac in search of something to destroy .
19 However , when Dolly Howard thought she would peep through the curtains to see how her father was reacting to the nudes she found that she was the one who was shocked .
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