Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] out [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her latest ally , Soviet Russia , was reeling under Hitler 's onslaught and it was widely expected she could not last out the year . |
| 2 | Maura could see Terry 's lips moving but could not make out a word . |
| 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 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 . |
| 5 | She could not make out the words , but knew instinctively they 'd been uttered by the uncle of her child . |
| 6 | THE National Blood Transfusion Service said last night that it could not rule out a patient contracting the HIV virus as Arthur Ashe did . |
| 7 | He did not as yet know all the details of how they had died , and what had gone before , but rumour had it that no great physical strength had been involved so that you could not rule out a woman as the killer . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Early days maybe , as the physician said — he could not rule out the possibility . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The national coach could not rule out the possibility , either , that Ferguson might go from the under-21 squad to the full international pool at Ibrox in the space of 24 hours . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But the maddest thing , Anton , how he was and what was happening to him , he could not scream out the shame of it . |
| 14 | The member States of the Commission could not carry out the duties entrusted to the Commission . |
| 15 | The TV commentator was excitedly describing the drama , but although she strained to hear she could not pick out the name of the victim . |
| 16 | When I turned I saw a long patch of the fluorescent dye that the Germans carried staining the sea a light yellow-green but could not pick out the pilot . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ AT THE top of Wears Hill we could just make out a signpost , pointing inland to Ashley Chase . |
| 21 | The design was n't very clear , but she could just make out a building shaped like a tower , she thought , tracing the outline with her fingertip , and beneath it a flower which might or might not be a rose . |
| 22 | As they drew nearer John could just make out a plate on which the number 173 was discernible . |
| 23 | I could just make out a figure wheeling a bicycle up the drive . |
| 24 | As he ran through the list , he could just make out the wording of the certificate over the mantelpiece : ‘ Ancient Guild of Foresters ’ . |
| 25 | In the semi-darkness , Delaney could just make out the Russian 's face . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Howarth could just make out the shape of what looked like a small purse , a lipstick , a folded sheet of paper . |
| 28 | Looking south , Huy could just make out the shape of the wall surrounding the palace compound , and remembered that quiet and contentment existed in reality for very few , and then only for a fraction of the time one spends under this sun . |
| 29 | Briefly , as she followed Lucenzo across the marble floor , she caught a glimpse inside a dark , spacious room where she could just make out the shape of elegant furniture and banners hanging from a painted ceiling lit by the light from the hall . |
| 30 | She could just make out the shape of the fork stuck in the ground , the bulbs scattered around as she had left them , and as the moon disappeared behind the clouds she shivered and a feeling of desolation flooded over her . |