Example sentences of "[pron] could not [vb infin] out the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , standing on my tiptoes I could n't see out the window to , to look out to the stage erm , and there was a huge step up , it was about that , which was great for people 's bad backs and if you got up on that , erm then you sat on top of a very high cocktail chair , in fact one of our people had to kneel on top of the high cocktail chair , to look , to see down , over the window , down to the stage and they did n't give us a sound feed which would sound familiar |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The position had been reached where she could not make out the labels on the cans of food she was heating up . |
| 4 | She could not make out the words , but knew instinctively they 'd been uttered by the uncle of her child . |
| 5 | Her latest ally , Soviet Russia , was reeling under Hitler 's onslaught and it was widely expected she could not last out the year . |
| 6 | Millions and millions of bits of information were still in her head , correctly labelled and neatly stored , but she could not work out the geography of this house , she was seeing green tigers and she was afraid in a way she had not been since childhood . |
| 7 | The TV commentator was excitedly describing the drama , but although she strained to hear she could not pick out the name of the victim . |
| 8 | If she could not get out the train would carry her on to the next station , to London Bridge , it would carry her on under the river . |
| 9 | With this she knocked away the snow from the lettering — but then found she could n't make out the words in the dark . |
| 10 | He tried to speak but she could n't make out the words . |
| 11 | At first , her eyes still full of tears , she could n't make out the figure . |
| 12 | But not so deafening that she could n't make out the anguished cries of : ‘ Wheee … |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Lisa had been fully occupied explaining to a rather elderly lady why she could n't pick out the exact blooms that were to be delivered to her daughter-in-law in New Zealand . |
| 15 | I would imagine i , i , if they went to look at it for fire and , or anything like that you 'd be in the wrong cos you could n't get out the kitchen . |
| 16 | Secondly , the Government have evaded parliamentary questions by placing the Benefits Agency and other agencies beyond our reach : we could not find out the answers without going through ever more tortuous procedures . |
| 17 | I think they both actually probably work it 's just they could n't figure out the programming on them . |
| 18 | Det Chief Insp Dave Sinclair said that although they could not rule out the possibility of someone else having fired the machine , the incident was now being treated as an accident . |
| 19 | And they could not rule out the bigger commercial craft , tugs , lighters , oil tankers , and general cargo coasters , pursuing their lawful occasions on the Thames . |
| 20 | He heard two men arguing , but with water lapping in his ears he could n't make out the words . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ He could n't go out the front door to play without being mugged . ’ |
| 23 | But the maddest thing , Anton , how he was and what was happening to him , he could not scream out the shame of it . |
| 24 | ‘ Early days maybe , as the physician said — he could not rule out the possibility . |
| 25 | County homicide chief , Lieutenant John Tenwolde said he could not rule out the possibility that Mr Spiro had also been a victim of his family 's killer . |