Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [adv] make [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that point he becomes marginally important to my future , and I might just make out a client sheet for him . |
| 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 a figure wheeling a bicycle up the drive . |
| 4 | Almost — but I could just make out a narrow stretch half-way over where the water flowed smooth and fast with each swell . |
| 5 | Mind you , I still think that now on the way back from a long hill-walk when I can just make out a dot that is the car . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In the dim upper reaches of the roof , she could now make out a cylindrical object with a dulled metallic glint . |
| 8 | That 's what I meant about the meta-metal , if you took it back to metal you could n't make up a page like your upper and lower case with a big R , unless you spent three years chiselling and fitting the thing , but somehow it looks as if it ought to have been possible to have done it in metal because that 's where it took its springboard from . |
| 9 | You can also make up a book of spells and write spells on a piece of paper , or even a menu for witches ' stew . |
| 10 | A. You can still make out a Deed of Covenant , and send the money directly to Save the Children by Postal Order . |
| 11 | And David Evans , all white and stammering , do n't you tell me my father 's a bloody animal I 've got to kick out of the way , and G.P. saying I 've never hurt an animal in my life , you can always make out a case for hurting human beings , but human animals deserve every sympathy . |
| 12 | ‘ AT THE top of Wears Hill we could just make out a signpost , pointing inland to Ashley Chase . |
| 13 | We could vaguely make out a few buildings as we caught the bubble up to La Saulire , and then headed down into Courchevel . |
| 14 | It follows that we can not make up a square matrix X of eigenvectors to satisfy ( 8 ) ; for this reason the matrix B is said to be defective . |
| 15 | The cubicle was thick with fragranced fog but he could just make out a dark hunched shape on the floor near the door . |
| 16 | At Procedure Roll a defender may , very occasionally , succeed in persuading a Court that the pursuer 's case is so hopeless that it is not worth allowing evidence to be heard because even if that evidence was heard , it would not make out a case which would entitle the pursuer to succeed . |