Example sentences of "see through " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aphrodite 's lie about a non-existent human father , ‘ King Otreus , of Phrygia ’ , is designed to conceal her divinity from her human mate , who is applauded for seeing through the fiction because of something uncanny in his bed-mate 's bearing — sometimes specified as her gait , her way of walking . |
| 2 | But Ramsey had an alarming faculty for seeing through his own utterances . |
| 3 | ‘ Seeing through a glass darkly ’ , he once told an ecumenical committee , ‘ is not the same thing as an ecumenical fog. , After the war he began to travel to meetings as a consultant . |
| 4 | Some people were waking up and seeing through the disguise humanity had constructed around its deities . |
| 5 | It is the vision of seeing through the inheritance of family emotions , the release of burdens imposed by the past , the healing of memories long since buried in one 's psyche . |
| 6 | ‘ So you are seeing through sun ’ , |
| 7 | The case for seeing through a glass darkly |
| 8 | Liberation does not mean slaying the dragon , but rising above it , growing beyond it , seeing through its tricks and laughing gently and lovingly when it snorts fire at us . |
| 9 | When one is engaged in seeing through a major public project , when that project concerns the international inheritance that is Venice , and when the whole is being financed with State money , the first guideline that should be brought into play is the moral yardstick . |
| 10 | Even the attempted revisions of the discipline associated with the Scrutiny programme have failed due to its lack of positive practical goals : " False ideals are not destroyed merely by seeing through their linguistic dress , but by opposing them with stronger and better ones . " |
| 11 | However , the modern public is capable of seeing through the disguise . |
| 12 | He had been hurrying to finish this latest copy before the meal ended , and seeing through the slit that his wife was heading out across the clearing with his two small sons to begin collecting the dishes , he put aside his pencil and hastily read over what he 'd written . |
| 13 | Energy secretary John Wakeham , who was responsible for seeing through the electricity privatisation last year , has pledged that legislation for the sell-off will appear in a new Tory government 's first term , with a commitment in the election manifesto . |
| 14 | And Joanne 's seeing through his disguise made him a bit wary . |
| 15 | ( Would he seize the chance to give her a message , without her mother seeing through her ruse ? |
| 16 | He wondered how many people in all the mental hospitals in the country — or the world " , — come to that — were really fallen Warriors who had either cracked up from the strain of trying to live in this hell-hole , or simply made the wrong choice and thought that the test was just seeing through the whole thing and then having the courage to stand out and make that challenge . |
| 17 | Namaliu rode out the protest and was successful in seeing through an initial parliamentary vote on a constitutional reform which would restrict the number of votes of no confidence . |
| 18 | Warm , seeing through holly-eyes , heart beating like the frantic flutter of a bird , Tallis went with Holly-jack , deeper into the forest . |
| 19 | First , he comments on the king 's astuteness in seeing through the arguments of the heretics , though he implies that for some while Clovis had been persuaded by them . |
| 20 | So accustomed to using Conrad 's eyes , Eliot is able to see through Twain 's the native emotion of his own nativity and childhood in the nursery bedroom , seeing that childhood in terms of a fundamental primitivism from which his religious consciousness has grown . |
| 21 | I woke to see through half open eyes enormous Technicolour images of baffling genitalia filling the wall . |
| 22 | His ability to see through human failings , his capacity to analyse other people 's annoyingness , his rich sense of comedy and satire , had as yet only found their outlet in letters to Greeves , and to a lesser extent in such collections as P'dayta-Pie . |
| 23 | It took application and imagination to see the point of Eastern Europe , to see through the glacier to the contours underneath . |
| 24 | In the same way , it 's the heathen elements of Pop that trouble the sober-minded rock fan , keen to see through the superficial , engage with the depth of an artist , |
| 25 | He tried to see through the net curtain but he could see nothing . |
| 26 | There was enough light in the tunnel from the entrance and from the gun emplacement slits in the pill-box for her to be able to see through the dark . |
| 27 | His only problem was , would he survive long enough to see through what was in some ways the most monumental task he had yet set himself ? |
| 28 | Smart army WAR in the 21st century will see soldiers in ‘ smart ’ helmets that allow them to see through clouds and over hills , according to a report from America 's National Research Council . |
| 29 | He is proud that his ‘ spy ship ’ , Guzzini , shadows rival yachts to create full polar diagrams of their performance , and that his helicopter can take photographs of rival yachts , which are then computer-manipulated to see through water and permit their keels to be studied . |
| 30 | He should take his own route in his own time and avoid the tendency to see through others ' eyes . |