Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] make out a " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 I could make out a couple of dozen large buildings .
2 I could make out a younger Conchis in the centre , wearing a straw hat and shorts , and there was one woman , a peasant-woman , though not Maria , because she was Maria 's age in the photo and it was plainly twenty or thirty years old .
3 I could make out a sort of close-fitting purple cap on the back of her head .
4 The area had been given an unfair image by ‘ so far as I can make out a group of tearaways who are , at the moment , completely uncontrollable .
5 The curving windows at the stern are freckled with spray ; through one of them you can make out a set of fat capstans and a listless macaroni of sodden rope .
6 As illustrated in Figure 1.9 , we can make out a number of levels more basic than this ; the electronic circuits themselves , the logical functions ( such as gates and flipflops ) , and the functional units ( such as adders and registers ) .
7 You concealed knowledge of a deserter , you actually helped him stay deserted , and They can make out a case for saying you still are .
8 But as his eyes grew accustomed to it he could make out a hand protruding from the open lounge doorway .
9 The Doctor followed the narrow road down through a small valley , before climbing back up towards a bare hilltop where he could make out a number of tiny wooden crosses , like a forest of lifeless bonsai trees .
10 And now it was out of its glass frame he could make out a faded signature at the bottom :
11 The cloth inside muffled the noise , but when he got close to the window he could make out a human voice .
  Next page