Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] out [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The position had been reached where she could not make out the labels on the cans of food she was heating up .
2 She could not make out the words , but knew instinctively they 'd been uttered by the uncle of her child .
3 The inquirer could not print out the pages herself at this point as the microcomputer was in use , so they were printed out and passed on to her .
4 The member States of the Commission could not carry out the duties entrusted to the Commission .
5 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 .
6 Turning to the north-east , I could just make out the lines of the walls of Siri , the first completely new city to be built by the Muslim conquerors in the Delhi plains .
7 He could just make out the greens , the fairways and the dunes through which the three dozen surviving professionals would toil tomorrow in search of their own Golden Fleece .
8 Down below , lost in the mist , he could just make out the holm-oaks and cypresses surrounding the Miletti property , a lugubrious baroque monstrosity built on a shoulder of land jutting out from the steep hillside .
9 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 .
10 Peering closely at the page , though , he thought he could still make out the shapes of the words , or enough shapes to allow a quick and hostile mind to piece together the whole sentence .
11 Although the sun glinted off its scales , Rincewind could clearly make out the outlines of the branches behind it .
12 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 .
13 He heard two men arguing , but with water lapping in his ears he could n't make out the words .
14 With this she knocked away the snow from the lettering — but then found she could n't make out the words in the dark .
15 He tried to speak but she could n't make out the words .
16 Someone was yelling , but Christine could n't make out the words .
17 He could even pick out the dots of furze bushes and stunted yew trees on the steep slopes .
18 Although it was murky , she felt she could almost pick out the silhouettes of other buildings up there , as if they were constructed on the inside of the dome itself .
19 Yeah , yeah you could certainly point out the areas that have been of interest to you and perhaps I could follow up with a phone call to er to Peter in the
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