Example sentences of "[adv] make [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The inspiring influence behind an automatic promotion triumph is determined Boro will not just make up the numbers in the top flight . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ AT THE top of Wears Hill we could just make out a signpost , pointing inland to Ashley Chase . |
| 5 | I could just make out a figure wheeling a bicycle up the drive . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | At that point he becomes marginally important to my future , and I might just make out a client sheet for him . |
| 8 | As they drew nearer John could just make out a plate on which the number 173 was discernible . |
| 9 | In the semi-darkness , Delaney could just make out the Russian 's face . |
| 10 | As he ran through the list , he could just make out the wording of the certificate over the mantelpiece : ‘ Ancient Guild of Foresters ’ . |
| 11 | I can just make out the Ridgery in the distance . |
| 12 | He could just make out the bottom of the iron saucepan in which the mussels were still boiling for his guests . |
| 13 | ‘ You can just make out the division markings on the walls where they 've joined the units . ’ |
| 14 | He could just make out the sand dunes now , a blond strip on the far side of the lake , a good ten miles away . |
| 15 | Howarth could just make out the shape of what looked like a small purse , a lipstick , a folded sheet of paper . |
| 16 | Looking south , Huy could just make out the shape of the wall surrounding the palace compound , and remembered that quiet and contentment existed in reality for very few , and then only for a fraction of the time one spends under this sun . |
| 17 | Briefly , as she followed Lucenzo across the marble floor , she caught a glimpse inside a dark , spacious room where she could just make out the shape of elegant furniture and banners hanging from a painted ceiling lit by the light from the hall . |
| 18 | She could just make out the shape of the fork stuck in the ground , the bulbs scattered around as she had left them , and as the moon disappeared behind the clouds she shivered and a feeling of desolation flooded over her . |
| 19 | ‘ Do n't see why not , ’ replied Geoffrey , moving through the gloom to a desk on which Loretta could just make out the shape of a lamp . |
| 20 | He could just make out the chicken . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The dirty chipped name plate was difficult to read but he could just make out the word Nettles on it . |
| 23 | He could just make out the greens , the fairways and the dunes through which the three dozen surviving professionals would toil tomorrow in search of their own Golden Fleece . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He could just make out the name in spite of the peeling paint . |
| 26 | He could just make out the outline of the figure in front of him , sweeping its heavy cape to one side , then something smashed into the side of his head . |
| 27 | Turning to the north-east , I could just make out the lines of the walls of Siri , the first completely new city to be built by the Muslim conquerors in the Delhi plains . |
| 28 | It was very dark , I could just make out the path and some trees . |
| 29 | Looking towards the middle of the room he could just make out the hulk of the engine , even more dense than the surrounding dark . |
| 30 | Down below , lost in the mist , he could just make out the holm-oaks and cypresses surrounding the Miletti property , a lugubrious baroque monstrosity built on a shoulder of land jutting out from the steep hillside . |