Example sentences of "just make [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inspiring influence behind an automatic promotion triumph is determined Boro will not just make up the numbers in the top flight . |
| 2 | Someone upstairs is playing a record — I can just make out the thumping of the drum . |
| 3 | As he ran through the list , he could just make out the wording of the certificate over the mantelpiece : ‘ Ancient Guild of Foresters ’ . |
| 4 | Looking towards the middle of the room he could just make out the hulk of the engine , even more dense than the surrounding dark . |
| 5 | If he squinted his eyes , he could just make out the greyness of the roof between the trees and here and there the stony finger of a chimney-stack . |
| 6 | Through the middle kitchen window he could just make out the open gate , the wooden ramp covering the steps and the first huge saddle-back sow ambling down into the yard . |
| 7 | The dirty chipped name plate was difficult to read but he could just make out the word Nettles on it . |
| 8 | He could just make out the chicken . |
| 9 | I could just make out the figure of a boy , running from the house on the right , who was joined by a group of people from the other . |
| 10 | He could just make out the name in spite of the peeling paint . |
| 11 | I can just make out the Ridgery in the distance . |
| 12 | As he gazed out , down the enormous length of the ship , he could just make out the dark outline against the lighter sea , and the rectangular shapes of the deck-covered containers . |
| 13 | ‘ You can just make out the division markings on the walls where they 've joined the units . ’ |
| 14 | In the semi-darkness , Delaney could just make out the Russian 's face . |
| 15 | He could just make out the sand dunes now , a blond strip on the far side of the lake , a good ten miles away . |
| 16 | He could just make out the great empty arch of the east window and beyond it the shimmer of the North Sea while above , seeming to move through and over it like a censer , swung the smudged yellow disc of the moon . |
| 17 | He could just make out the two rows of cottages and the fields beyond them . |
| 18 | Straining his eyes , he could just make out the two boxes which were stacked in the far corner of the room and a picture frame which was propped up against them . |
| 19 | The smoke enveloped the beast completely , and yet through the smoke , as they got very close , Little Billy could just make out the enormous black shadow of some hairy monster . |
| 20 | Behind us we could just make out the glimmer of lamplight from the tiny hotel on Lake Pehoe , where we should be dining on river trout , bife chorizo and good Chilean pinot noir before the night was out . |
| 21 | I could just make out the spot he indicated . |
| 22 | I took a few cautious steps forward to where , by craning , I could just make out the ghostly crescent of the beach opposite the pier . |
| 23 | Between the ranks of bared heads ( one or another of which would occasionally turn to take a quick glance of inspection at his own face ) he could just make out the graceful figure of Mrs Wright herself , kneeling on a hassock in front of the table . |
| 24 | He could just make out the railway embankment from here , but not the station or the building that used to be the Turk 's Head . |
| 25 | The moon was not yet up and in the darkness we could only just make out the rock face of the west bank above us , a cliff some thirty feet high . |
| 26 | By peering hard in the same direction , I could just make out the faint flicker of a distant plane . |
| 27 | From the tiny amount of light leaking around the door behind me , I could just make out the boards of the platform I stood on , and the first few feet of three narrow walkways emerging from the gloom , one cutting sharply away to my right , another straight ahead and a third branching left off this a few yards along . |
| 28 | It was very dark , I could just make out the path and some trees . |
| 29 | Howarth could just make out the shape of what looked like a small purse , a lipstick , a folded sheet of paper . |
| 30 | A large spider 's web occupied one corner of the room near the ceiling and he could just make out the spider lurking there , quite motionless ; emulating Mr Micawber , waiting for something to turn up . |