Example sentences of "make out [art] [adj] " 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 | He could see that the flap of cloth gaped open , but in the dark could make out no more than the vague shape of her legs , her stomach . |
| 3 | He strained his eyes but could make out no more than the vague outline of Ngo Van Loc 's face in the darkness . |
| 4 | Almost — but I could just make out a narrow stretch half-way over where the water flowed smooth and fast with each swell . |
| 5 | Could n't make out a damn thing from either one of them . |
| 6 | The cubicle was thick with fragranced fog but he could just make out a dark hunched shape on the floor near the door . |
| 7 | The cloth inside muffled the noise , but when he got close to the window he could make out a human voice . |
| 8 | Blanche could just make out a flabby shape in the back seat . |
| 9 | And now it was out of its glass frame he could make out a faded signature at the bottom : |
| 10 | In the dim upper reaches of the roof , she could now make out a cylindrical object with a dulled metallic glint . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We could vaguely make out a few buildings as we caught the bubble up to La Saulire , and then headed down into Courchevel . |
| 13 | I could make out a younger Conchis in the centre , wearing a straw hat and shorts , and there was one woman , a peasant-woman , though not Maria , because she was Maria 's age in the photo and it was plainly twenty or thirty years old . |
| 14 | The light gradually faded , allowing a clearer view of the craft — Bash could now make out a thin outline , a panel or … a door ! |
| 15 | Robert could just make out a thin line of boys struggling through the trees at the edge of the horizon . |
| 16 | Along it , Theodora could just make out a lone rider heading back to the stable . |
| 17 | Even on the darkest night , by the light which the sea seemed mysteriously to absorb and reflect , he could make out the splendid fifteenth-century west tower of Happisburgh Church , that embattled symbol of man 's precarious defences against this most dangerous of seas . |
| 18 | All the internal doors were open and she could make out the tumbled travel bags she had left half-packed and which now spilled their contents across the room . |
| 19 | After a couple of hundred yards the jungle thinned , and I could make out the towering white cliffs of the apartments building . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It even had a name , he could just make out the tiny print . |
| 22 | All the pictures he showed me looked the same messy blur but he insisted he could make out the individual features of each person . |
| 23 | His grey moustache bristled ; he was so close that Loretta could make out the individual hairs . |
| 24 | From somewhere far away , she could make out the screaming whine of an emergency vehicle in a hurry . |
| 25 | He could just make out the two rows of cottages and the fields beyond them . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Now that his eyes had adjusted to the light , Patrick could just about make out the vague shape of the young woman before him , her face a dim grey against the paler shape of her nightdress . |
| 30 | Their vision was by now more adapted to the darkness , and silhouetted against the glow of the fires , they could make out the black bulk of the castle . |