Example sentences of "[pers pn] could [adv] make [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I could just make out a figure wheeling a bicycle up the drive . |
| 3 | Almost — but I could just make out a narrow stretch half-way over where the water flowed smooth and fast with each swell . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In the dim upper reaches of the roof , she could now make out a cylindrical object with a dulled metallic glint . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ AT THE top of Wears Hill we could just make out a signpost , pointing inland to Ashley Chase . |
| 8 | We could vaguely make out a few buildings as we caught the bubble up to La Saulire , and then headed down into Courchevel . |
| 9 | The cubicle was thick with fragranced fog but he could just make out a dark hunched shape on the floor near the door . |