Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb mod] make [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over on the other side they could make out the chimney of the paper works among rising woods . |
| 2 | If they strained their eyes they could make out the clusters of houses and farmyards that were Suardal to the north , the pencil-thin bars of smoke already rising from them and the meagre herds moving across the open country like ants . |
| 3 | When the Windsor herd arrives in late July they will make up the largest group of African elephants in the country . |
| 4 | He looked up at the house and through a dormer window he could make out the outline of a figure , seated and immobile , facing the sea . |
| 5 | Q. Who would make up the shortfall ? |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | Today the man in charge outlined the sort of people who 'll make up the bulk of the 450-strong workforce . |
| 8 | A few yards through the gloom I could make out the shape of a hedge and what appeared to be the entrance to a sunken road . |
| 9 | But even in the gloom you can make out the apostles ' faces . |
| 10 | Suddenly , beyond , in the black solidity she could make out the pattern in the sun-whitened rocks : the lips of craters . |