Example sentences of "[pers pn] could just make out " in BNC.
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| 1 | About a hundred and fifty yards away I could just make out three figures crossing at the corner of the field and approaching the road in our direction . |
| 2 | The drop down to half-moon Rhossili Bay below me was almost sheer , and the sea was striped with shimmering blue and white as endlessly long parallel lines of surf moved in slow motion towards the expanse of sand , on which I could just make out a few figures as tiny specks . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I could just make out a figure wheeling a bicycle up the drive . |
| 5 | I could just make out the spot he indicated . |
| 6 | I could just make out Tobermory , looking like an Anne Redpath painting , cubes of white and blue and primrose and Venetian red , the houses and shops strung out along the bay , tiny in the distance . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Almost — but I could just make out a narrow stretch half-way over where the water flowed smooth and fast with each swell . |
| 9 | By peering hard in the same direction , I could just make out the faint flicker of a distant plane . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was very dark , I could just make out the path and some trees . |
| 12 | I could just make out his face in the light from the doorway . |
| 13 | He was silent ; I could just make out his face , his staring to sea , as if Neuve Chapelle was out there , grey mud and hell , visible . |
| 14 | I could just make out that she had a little smile at the corner of her lips . |
| 15 | I could just make out part of the stonework , though most of it was under water . |
| 16 | There were open sliding glass windows at the side of the house and in the dim interior I could just make out two figures standing . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | On the wall behind the plant she could just make out irregular painted spirals of pale gold . |
| 19 | But in the deep shade in the angle of the two hedges she could just make out that a pit had been dug . |
| 20 | To soothe herself , she counted the roses on the wallpaper ; she could just make out their heavy , dark faces . |
| 21 | She could just make out , beyond her own reflection , the night-shapes of a long garden with a flood-wall and a towpath at its end . |
| 22 | He lifted his head and , in the semi-darkness , she could just make out the wry smile that touched the corners of his mouth . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She could just make out the shepherd resting beneath a tree , and the tranquillity of the scene helped to make her feel less frantic . |
| 26 | To her right , as her eyes adjusted to the faint lifting of the darkness , she could just make out the first steps of the spiral tower staircase . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In the dim light she could just make out some moving shapes . |
| 29 | Dorcas pointed to the shadows at the far end of the shed , where she could just make out something big and indistinct . |
| 30 | Yes , through the gloom she could just make out the dried-up fountain in the middle of it , and , straight ahead , the huge studded doors of a church . |