Example sentences of "[pron] could [adv] make out the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I could just make out the spot he indicated . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | By peering hard in the same direction , I could just make out the faint flicker of a distant plane . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was very dark , I could just make out the path and some trees . |
| 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 | To my left was a rough wooden handrail , below , to right and left , I could now make out the grey slopes of two of the conical pits formed by the vault of the transept beneath — the floor under the catwalk was really a negative ceiling — but , apart from a yard or two near the edge , it was completely submerged in nest , as was the catwalk itself a few steps further in . |
| 9 | The driver 's cab reminded me of the bridge ofa ship and , as in mid-ocean looking into infinity , I could almost make out the curve in the surface of the earth . |
| 10 | She could not make out the patch of canary-coloured light on the opposite wall , could not make out why the sun was shining and why her brown-stained hand , on the sheet , would not move for cold . |
| 11 | The position had been reached where she could not make out the labels on the cans of food she was heating up . |
| 12 | She could not make out the words , but knew instinctively they 'd been uttered by the uncle of her child . |
| 13 | He lifted his head and , in the semi-darkness , she could just make out the wry smile that touched the corners of his mouth . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She could just make out the shepherd resting beneath a tree , and the tranquillity of the scene helped to make her feel less frantic . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | With this she knocked away the snow from the lettering — but then found she could n't make out the words in the dark . |
| 20 | He tried to speak but she could n't make out the words . |
| 21 | At first , her eyes still full of tears , she could n't make out the figure . |
| 22 | But not so deafening that she could n't make out the anguished cries of : ‘ Wheee … |
| 23 | She could n't make out the expression on his face as he spoke , and in a way she was glad that she could n't . |
| 24 | Although we could barely make out the carcass 300 metres away from us , the vultures , high above the reach of our binocular-aided vision , could see it clearly . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He heard two men arguing , but with water lapping in his ears he could n't make out the words . |
| 27 | On another low table by the wall there was an inexpensive stereo unit and some uneven stacks of records ; he could n't make out the details on the posters on the wall above the unit , but they might have been Escher prints . |
| 28 | As he ran through the list , he could just make out the wording of the certificate over the mantelpiece : ‘ Ancient Guild of Foresters ’ . |
| 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 | 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 . |