Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] just make out [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The dirty chipped name plate was difficult to read but he could just make out the word Nettles on it . |
| 32 | He could just make out the chicken . |
| 33 | He could just make out the name in spite of the peeling paint . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | He could just make out the sand dunes now , a blond strip on the far side of the lake , a good ten miles away . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | He could just make out the two rows of cottages and the fields beyond them . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | He could just make out the bottom of the iron saucepan in which the mussels were still boiling for his guests . |
| 43 | It even had a name , he could just make out the tiny print . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | 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 . |