Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] make [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if you are charged a few pounds , you 'll soon make up the difference once you 're filling up with cheaper , lead-free petrol . |
| 2 | At that point he becomes marginally important to my future , and I might just make out a client sheet for him . |
| 3 | I have quoted this passage in full , not because I think it is particularly inspired or even well-written , but because it is the nearest attempt I have come across to suggest some of the subjective , hidden meanings that might well make up a performer 's luggage when he expresses himself on stage . |
| 4 | ‘ AT THE top of Wears Hill we could just make out a signpost , pointing inland to Ashley Chase . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I could just make out a figure wheeling a bicycle up the drive . |
| 7 | As they drew nearer John could just make out a plate on which the number 173 was discernible . |
| 8 | Almost — but I could just make out a narrow stretch half-way over where the water flowed smooth and fast with each swell . |
| 9 | Blanche could just make out a flabby shape in the back seat . |
| 10 | The cubicle was thick with fragranced fog but he could just make out a dark hunched shape on the floor near the door . |
| 11 | Along it , Theodora could just make out a lone rider heading back to the stable . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Robert could just make out a thin line of boys struggling through the trees at the edge of the horizon . |
| 14 | As he ran through the list , he could just make out the wording of the certificate over the mantelpiece : ‘ Ancient Guild of Foresters ’ . |
| 15 | Looking towards the middle of the room he could just make out the hulk of the engine , even more dense than the surrounding dark . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The dirty chipped name plate was difficult to read but he could just make out the word Nettles on it . |
| 19 | He could just make out the chicken . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He could just make out the name in spite of the peeling paint . |
| 22 | As he gazed out , down the enormous length of the ship , he could just make out the dark outline against the lighter sea , and the rectangular shapes of the deck-covered containers . |
| 23 | In the semi-darkness , Delaney could just make out the Russian 's face . |
| 24 | He could just make out the sand dunes now , a blond strip on the far side of the lake , a good ten miles away . |
| 25 | He could just make out the great empty arch of the east window and beyond it the shimmer of the North Sea while above , seeming to move through and over it like a censer , swung the smudged yellow disc of the moon . |
| 26 | He could just make out the two rows of cottages and the fields beyond them . |
| 27 | Straining his eyes , he could just make out the two boxes which were stacked in the far corner of the room and a picture frame which was propped up against them . |
| 28 | The smoke enveloped the beast completely , and yet through the smoke , as they got very close , Little Billy could just make out the enormous black shadow of some hairy monster . |
| 29 | Behind us we could just make out the glimmer of lamplight from the tiny hotel on Lake Pehoe , where we should be dining on river trout , bife chorizo and good Chilean pinot noir before the night was out . |
| 30 | I could just make out the spot he indicated . |