Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] could make [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was tired of kneeling , listening to their voices droning on : ‘ Our Father who art in heaven , hallowed be Thy name ’ , and ‘ Hail Mary , full of grace ’ , which was all she could make out of the second bit , because what followed was just a mumble . |
| 2 | Perhaps we could make up a party . |
| 3 | Every day I lay there and repeated an exercise of counting how many branches on the tree outside I could make out . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Gradually we could make out the shaking fronds of the trees , the thick herbs at the side of the path . |
| 6 | But as far I could make out she had n't been outside , at least not in the garden where you 'd expect her to go . |
| 7 | Perhaps now she could make up for her crime against society . |
| 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 | Okay that 's how you could make up twelve coins one set of twelve . |
| 10 | ‘ I think we should be given lessons on that and then we could make up our minds about whether we are being used by a boy seeing how far he can go , or whether the boy is really interested in us . |
| 11 | Faintly I could make out , because I knew they should be there , the sculpted masks of Tragedy and Comedy above the central doorway . |