Example sentences of "could just [verb] out [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ AT THE top of Wears Hill we could just make out a signpost , pointing inland to Ashley Chase .
2 The design was n't very clear , but she could just make out a building shaped like a tower , she thought , tracing the outline with her fingertip , and beneath it a flower which might or might not be a rose .
3 As they drew nearer John could just make out a plate on which the number 173 was discernible .
4 I could just make out a figure wheeling a bicycle up the drive .
5 As he ran through the list , he could just make out the wording of the certificate over the mantelpiece : ‘ Ancient Guild of Foresters ’ .
6 In the semi-darkness , Delaney could just make out the Russian 's face .
7 Turning to the north-east , I could just make out the lines of the walls of Siri , the first completely new city to be built by the Muslim conquerors in the Delhi plains .
8 Howarth could just make out the shape of what looked like a small purse , a lipstick , a folded sheet of paper .
9 Looking south , Huy could just make out the shape of the wall surrounding the palace compound , and remembered that quiet and contentment existed in reality for very few , and then only for a fraction of the time one spends under this sun .
10 Briefly , as she followed Lucenzo across the marble floor , she caught a glimpse inside a dark , spacious room where she could just make out the shape of elegant furniture and banners hanging from a painted ceiling lit by the light from the hall .
11 She could just make out the shape of the fork stuck in the ground , the bulbs scattered around as she had left them , and as the moon disappeared behind the clouds she shivered and a feeling of desolation flooded over her .
12 ‘ Do n't see why not , ’ replied Geoffrey , moving through the gloom to a desk on which Loretta could just make out the shape of a lamp .
13 He could just make out the greens , the fairways and the dunes through which the three dozen surviving professionals would toil tomorrow in search of their own Golden Fleece .
14 He could just make out the bottom of the iron saucepan in which the mussels were still boiling for his guests .
15 He could just make out the sand dunes now , a blond strip on the far side of the lake , a good ten miles away .
16 The dirty chipped name plate was difficult to read but he could just make out the word Nettles on it .
17 He could just make out the chicken .
18 Behind us we could just make out the glimmer of lamplight from the tiny hotel on Lake Pehoe , where we should be dining on river trout , bife chorizo and good Chilean pinot noir before the night was out .
19 He could just make out the name in spite of the peeling paint .
20 If he squinted his eyes , he could just make out the greyness of the roof between the trees and here and there the stony finger of a chimney-stack .
21 He could just make out the outline of the figure in front of him , sweeping its heavy cape to one side , then something smashed into the side of his head .
22 She could just make out the shepherd resting beneath a tree , and the tranquillity of the scene helped to make her feel less frantic .
23 I could just make out the figure of a boy , running from the house on the right , who was joined by a group of people from the other .
24 A large spider 's web occupied one corner of the room near the ceiling and he could just make out the spider lurking there , quite motionless ; emulating Mr Micawber , waiting for something to turn up .
25 Down below , lost in the mist , he could just make out the holm-oaks and cypresses surrounding the Miletti property , a lugubrious baroque monstrosity built on a shoulder of land jutting out from the steep hillside .
26 I could just make out the spot he indicated .
27 It was very dark , I could just make out the path and some trees .
28 He could just make out the railway embankment from here , but not the station or the building that used to be the Turk 's Head .
29 Looking towards the middle of the room he could just make out the hulk of the engine , even more dense than the surrounding dark .
30 From the tiny amount of light leaking around the door behind me , I could just make out the boards of the platform I stood on , and the first few feet of three narrow walkways emerging from the gloom , one cutting sharply away to my right , another straight ahead and a third branching left off this a few yards along .
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