Example sentences of "can [verb] out " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we can laugh out loud about getting old , break the silence that surrounds it instead of suffering quietly , then we are beginning to escape from a fear society wants us to have — so we will buy uplift bras , expensive face creams and continue to fear and envy younger women . |
| 2 | As far as I can make out , all we have done so far is talk about it and we have not even done very much of that . |
| 3 | Hard on the heels of an Amon Ra disc of music for mandolin comes this much cheaper Tuxedo reissue ( 1978 recordings ) of more modern repertoire for the instrument ; they share only two Mozart settings for voice ( in this recording that of the estimable Kurt Equiluz ) and mandolin , here with the rather shy obbligato lute ( as far as my ears can make out ) . |
| 4 | But he was an American citizen , born in the States as far as I can make out . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ They were quite a part of the international scene in those days from what I can make out . |
| 6 | ‘ As far as I can make out no one has yet said conclusively that this man is Greg Martin' , she argued . |
| 7 | ‘ My colleagues and I will be very interested , ’ he said sourly , ‘ to know what kind of propaganda that red magazine you work for can make out of an international survey of prospective parents . ’ |
| 8 | As far as I can make out , Deanes does n't believe that young people should be expected to know the difference between right and wrong . |
| 9 | They are only interested in what they can make out of it . ’ |
| 10 | Eubank admitted : ‘ From what I can make out , this will be a good fight — unfortunately for me , because I like to get the job over and done with and go home with the minimum of fuss . ’ |
| 11 | And at least we 'll find the girls ' car because according to what one can make out of her statement , they were removed from it somewhere on the road between here and Taverna yesterday morning … ’ |
| 12 | ‘ As far as I can make out from the little she said about what actually happened , the man who kidnapped them , there was only one at that point , was hidden in the back of their car when they got in . |
| 13 | If you can make out the lyrics — and it 's difficult enough to find a song in this aural tirade — you 'll be subconsciously ordered to slaughter small children on the bus home . |
| 14 | All I can make out is what I take to be the outer port engine and that 's no help at all . |
| 15 | The area had been given an unfair image by ‘ so far as I can make out a group of tearaways who are , at the moment , completely uncontrollable . |
| 16 | In terms of professional development the UK lags somewhat behind , having no fully recognised body of interpreters ( although such an organisation may now be close to recognition ) and , as far as we can make out , only one full-time interpreter in the whole country . |
| 17 | Near as we can make out , the SunSoft Inc deal with Motorola Inc for Solaris on PowerPC is very fresh : it was likely completed over the weekend of March 27 ; weekends are getting popular for closing — the Common Operating Software Environment was n't a deal until the evening of Sunday , March 14 . |
| 18 | Following a time-honoured tradition of psychiatric categories , she elaborates the ‘ bereavement response ’ to diagnosis into a farrago of stages ( none of whose terms , as far as I can make out , has ever been defined ) : ( 1 ) ‘ Shock ’ , ( 2 ) ‘ panic ’ , ( 3 ) ‘ Denial ’ , ( 4 ) ‘ Grief ’ , ( 5 ) ‘ Guilt ’ , ( 6 ) ‘ Anger ’ ( in general ) , ( 7 ) ‘ Anger Against professionals ’ , ( 8 ) ‘ Bargaining ’ and finally ( 9 ) ‘ Acceptance ’ . |
| 19 | Near as we can make out the SunSoft deal with Motorola Inc for the PowerPC ( see front page ) is very fresh . |
| 20 | Mind you , they 're a nasty bunch , from what I can make out of it . ’ |
| 21 | As illustrated in Figure 1.9 , we can make out a number of levels more basic than this ; the electronic circuits themselves , the logical functions ( such as gates and flipflops ) , and the functional units ( such as adders and registers ) . |
| 22 | When you 've done twelves and you 've got all the answers that you all the things you can make out of it . |
| 23 | Violette is driving up from Geneva with from what I can make out is her latest beau and two friends . |
| 24 | As far as I can make out , we 've already passed where it 's supposed to have stopped . |
| 25 | It was deliberately defaced in antiquity , but though we can not read the sculptor 's name we can make out that he carved these figures ‘ and those at the back ’ , the east frieze that is . |
| 26 | I daresay you can make out one of them up across the Vale there . " |
| 27 | The curving windows at the stern are freckled with spray ; through one of them you can make out a set of fat capstans and a listless macaroni of sodden rope . |
| 28 | There 's a flower bed of sorts over by the fence but the flowers look to be on their last legs , as far as I can make out . |
| 29 | ‘ Only Nicola herself , as far as I can make out . ’ |
| 30 | You 've got no shame that I can make out . ’ |