Example sentences of "[modal v] make out the " 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 | A few yards through the gloom I could make out the shape of a hedge and what appeared to be the entrance to a sunken road . |
| 3 | Gradually , almost imperceptibly , the light strengthened and soon he could make out the shape of boats , the mexeflote causeway and the patchwork of woods and fields on the island . |
| 4 | Straining to listen , the boy thought he could make out the soft fall of footsteps on the snuffled ground between the trees . |
| 5 | At the edge of hearing , as she turned back into her room , she could make out the shuffling of crockery . |
| 6 | It was dark down below , but she could make out the shapes of beer kegs . |
| 7 | Anne could make out the ridges of her sister 's knuckles . |
| 8 | She could make out the man now . |
| 9 | Gradually we could make out the shaking fronds of the trees , the thick herbs at the side of the path . |
| 10 | Even on the darkest night , by the light which the sea seemed mysteriously to absorb and reflect , he could make out the splendid fifteenth-century west tower of Happisburgh Church , that embattled symbol of man 's precarious defences against this most dangerous of seas . |
| 11 | Their vision was by now more adapted to the darkness , and silhouetted against the glow of the fires , they could make out the black bulk of the castle . |
| 12 | Most of it was double-dutch to me but I could make out the names entered in columns . |
| 13 | As he spoke I could make out the red roofs of the bungalows dotted among the green trees . |
| 14 | But as far as I could make out the Ambassador was away . |
| 15 | The fields shone a new green in the sun , and the air which for days had been hazy had been cleaned by the rain so that I could make out the shapes of sheep grazing near the old Coal Road above Cowgill as I walked down the lane . |
| 16 | After a couple of hundred yards the jungle thinned , and I could make out the towering white cliffs of the apartments building . |
| 17 | Suddenly , beyond , in the black solidity she could make out the pattern in the sun-whitened rocks : the lips of craters . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I could make out the tracery of blonde down on the edge of her cheek . |
| 20 | For , if I am the world ’ — we were heading down again , his nails digging into my flesh , I could make out the Eastern Mediterranean — ‘ then the world must be real . |
| 21 | The windows were obscured by curtains , but if I strained my eyes I thought I could make out the shadow of a figure standing behind them , never moving . |
| 22 | Sure enough , he could make out the same almost subsonic throbbing as he had heard earlier . |
| 23 | I could make out the Headmaster 's fancy brick chimneys , three shaped like corkscrews , three with brick diamond patterns , also the black branches of the elm tree shining wetly in the light of a precinct lamp-post . |
| 24 | All the internal doors were open and she could make out the tumbled travel bags she had left half-packed and which now spilled their contents across the room . |
| 25 | From somewhere far away , she could make out the screaming whine of an emergency vehicle in a hurry . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He looked up at the house and through a dormer window he could make out the outline of a figure , seated and immobile , facing the sea . |
| 28 | If they strained their eyes they could make out the clusters of houses and farmyards that were Suardal to the north , the pencil-thin bars of smoke already rising from them and the meagre herds moving across the open country like ants . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |