Example sentences of "could make [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the pictures he showed me looked the same messy blur but he insisted he could make out the individual features of each person . |
| 2 | His grey moustache bristled ; he was so close that Loretta could make out the individual hairs . |
| 3 | The Scapegoat had been secured by ‘ wrists ’ and ‘ ankles ’ to the inner ring and Wycliffe thought he could make out the four points where the ropes had been . |
| 4 | Gradually we could make out the shaking fronds of the trees , the thick herbs at the side of the path . |
| 5 | The atmosphere was less turbid than I 'd expected from Edward 's description — a glowing , orange-red furnace of heat in which I could make out the shadowy profiles of two pots . |
| 6 | It was difficult to see her backside in the mirror , but she could make out the pink weals which had been raised on her tender white bum-cheeks by the little squirt . |
| 7 | As he spoke I could make out the red roofs of the bungalows dotted among the green trees . |
| 8 | And as I changed tack , the harbour came into view round the headland , with the hill rising behind it , where pines grow in a sheltered spot , and then I could make out the white walls of my house through the binoculars . |
| 9 | Ahead of her , straight ahead , she could make out the grey hills on the far side of the estuary and to her right where the land first widened out and then melted away altogether , the sea flowed to the ocean , limitless , miles of moving , salty water . |