Example sentences of "make out the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He turned back to the glaring headlights and dimly made out the terrified eyes of the drivers and their passengers . |
| 2 | All the pictures he showed me looked the same messy blur but he insisted he could make out the individual features of each person . |
| 3 | His grey moustache bristled ; he was so close that Loretta could make out the individual hairs . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He could just make out the two rows of cottages and the fields beyond them . |
| 6 | To her right , as her eyes adjusted to the faint lifting of the darkness , she could just make out the first steps of the spiral tower staircase . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | To my left was a rough wooden handrail , below , to right and left , I could now make out the grey slopes of two of the conical pits formed by the vault of the transept beneath — the floor under the catwalk was really a negative ceiling — but , apart from a yard or two near the edge , it was completely submerged in nest , as was the catwalk itself a few steps further in . |
| 10 | Gradually we could make out the shaking fronds of the trees , the thick herbs at the side of the path . |
| 11 | It was clear enough for Gareth to just make out the gaunt shapes of the drilling platforms on the north-eastern horizon . |
| 12 | Although Maggie could n't make out the exact words , she knew they were from both sides . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But not so deafening that she could n't make out the anguished cries of : ‘ Wheee … |
| 17 | In the darkness , he could barely make out the wooden boards that had been nailed into place over the shattered window vents at street level , but even down here they could hear the hissing of rain on the pavements outside and the grumbling of thunder in the sky . |
| 18 | As he spoke I could make out the red roofs of the bungalows dotted among the green trees . |
| 19 | Her fists gripped the armrests of the chair so tightly she made out the taut ligaments running from her wrists to her knuckles . |
| 20 | I make out the sunk foundations |
| 21 | Father Reynard walked across to the cemetery , making out the dark shapes of the wooden crosses , mounds of earth and ghostly elm trees . |
| 22 | He looked across the field cum river bank in the general direction of civilisation , and with the aid of the moonlight was able to make out the familiar gables of the Blue Boar , a hundred yards away . |
| 23 | The glass in the photo frame still held together but it was difficult to make out the five faces beneath . |
| 24 | And he just about managed to make out the three words uttered by Sheriff James Farrell : ‘ You are discharged . ’ |
| 25 | There was enough starlight coming in the window to make out the dim shapes of bunkbeds and rucksacks . |