Example sentences of "[adv] make out [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theodora had spread out the Ordnance Survey and fended off Tobias long enough to make out a route . |
| 2 | They have telescope mirrors comparable in size to the one on the Hubble space telescope — but , one hopes , not afflicted by the Hubble mirror 's distortions — and produce images good enough to make out an object the size of a paperback book . |
| 3 | They ca n't see far enough to make out the hollow . ’ |
| 4 | Swore like a trooper under his breath as the bus swayed through the leafy lanes , saying he could no longer make out the landmarks , that he knew such and such a tree or house was in such and such a place , he 'd passed it so often in the bus , but now could barely see it . |
| 5 | Maura could see Terry 's lips moving but could not make out a word . |
| 6 | At Procedure Roll a defender may , very occasionally , succeed in persuading a Court that the pursuer 's case is so hopeless that it is not worth allowing evidence to be heard because even if that evidence was heard , it would not make out a case which would entitle the pursuer to succeed . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The position had been reached where she could not make out the labels on the cans of food she was heating up . |
| 9 | She could not make out the words , but knew instinctively they 'd been uttered by the uncle of her child . |
| 10 | I narrow my eyes to stare into his ; the light of the pub is dim as dust and I can not make out the pinpoints . |
| 11 | ‘ AT THE top of Wears Hill we could just make out a signpost , pointing inland to Ashley Chase . |
| 12 | The drop down to half-moon Rhossili Bay below me was almost sheer , and the sea was striped with shimmering blue and white as endlessly long parallel lines of surf moved in slow motion towards the expanse of sand , on which I could just make out a few figures as tiny specks . |
| 13 | Mind you , I still think that now on the way back from a long hill-walk when I can just make out a dot that is the car . |
| 14 | I could just make out a figure wheeling a bicycle up the drive . |
| 15 | As they drew nearer John could just make out a plate on which the number 173 was discernible . |
| 16 | Almost — but I could just make out a narrow stretch half-way over where the water flowed smooth and fast with each swell . |
| 17 | Blanche could just make out a flabby shape in the back seat . |
| 18 | The cubicle was thick with fragranced fog but he could just make out a dark hunched shape on the floor near the door . |
| 19 | Along it , Theodora could just make out a lone rider heading back to the stable . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Robert could just make out a thin line of boys struggling through the trees at the edge of the horizon . |
| 22 | At that point he becomes marginally important to my future , and I might just make out a client sheet for him . |
| 23 | Someone upstairs is playing a record — I can just make out the thumping of the drum . |
| 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 | Looking towards the middle of the room he could just make out the hulk of the engine , even more dense than the surrounding dark . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The dirty chipped name plate was difficult to read but he could just make out the word Nettles on it . |
| 29 | He could just make out the chicken . |
| 30 | 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 . |