Example sentences of "could [adv] make [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he ran through the list , he could just make out the wording of the certificate over the mantelpiece : ‘ Ancient Guild of Foresters ’ . |
| 2 | Looking towards the middle of the room he could just make out the hulk of the engine , even more dense than the surrounding dark . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Through the middle kitchen window he could just make out the open gate , the wooden ramp covering the steps and the first huge saddle-back sow ambling down into the yard . |
| 5 | The dirty chipped name plate was difficult to read but he could just make out the word Nettles on it . |
| 6 | He could just make out the chicken . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He could just make out the name in spite of the peeling paint . |
| 9 | As he gazed out , down the enormous length of the ship , he could just make out the dark outline against the lighter sea , and the rectangular shapes of the deck-covered containers . |
| 10 | In the semi-darkness , Delaney could just make out the Russian 's face . |
| 11 | He could just make out the sand dunes now , a blond strip on the far side of the lake , a good ten miles away . |
| 12 | He could just make out the great empty arch of the east window and beyond it the shimmer of the North Sea while above , seeming to move through and over it like a censer , swung the smudged yellow disc of the moon . |
| 13 | He could just make out the two rows of cottages and the fields beyond them . |
| 14 | Straining his eyes , he could just make out the two boxes which were stacked in the far corner of the room and a picture frame which was propped up against them . |
| 15 | The smoke enveloped the beast completely , and yet through the smoke , as they got very close , Little Billy could just make out the enormous black shadow of some hairy monster . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I could just make out the spot he indicated . |
| 18 | I took a few cautious steps forward to where , by craning , I could just make out the ghostly crescent of the beach opposite the pier . |
| 19 | Between the ranks of bared heads ( one or another of which would occasionally turn to take a quick glance of inspection at his own face ) he could just make out the graceful figure of Mrs Wright herself , kneeling on a hassock in front of the table . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | By peering hard in the same direction , I could just make out the faint flicker of a distant plane . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It was very dark , I could just make out the path and some trees . |
| 24 | Howarth could just make out the shape of what looked like a small purse , a lipstick , a folded sheet of paper . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He could just make out the bottom of the iron saucepan in which the mussels were still boiling for his guests . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It even had a name , he could just make out the tiny print . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He lifted his head and , in the semi-darkness , she could just make out the wry smile that touched the corners of his mouth . |