Example sentences of "he [vb mod] make out the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even on the darkest night , by the light which the sea seemed mysteriously to absorb and reflect , he could make out the splendid fifteenth-century west tower of Happisburgh Church , that embattled symbol of man 's precarious defences against this most dangerous of seas . |
| 2 | All the pictures he showed me looked the same messy blur but he insisted he could make out the individual features of each person . |
| 3 | The Scapegoat had been secured by ‘ wrists ’ and ‘ ankles ’ to the inner ring and Wycliffe thought he could make out the four points where the ropes had been . |
| 4 | Even at this distance he could make out the faint octarine glow in the air that must be indicating a stable magic aura of at least — he gasped — several milliprime ? |
| 5 | Sure enough , he could make out the same almost subsonic throbbing as he had heard earlier . |
| 6 | Straining to listen , the boy thought he could make out the soft fall of footsteps on the snuffled ground between the trees . |