Example sentences of "he [vb mod] make [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the pictures he showed me looked the same messy blur but he insisted he could make out the individual features of each person . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Straining to listen , the boy thought he could make out the soft fall of footsteps on the snuffled ground between the trees . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Sure enough , he could make out the same almost subsonic throbbing as he had heard earlier . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He looked up at the house and through a dormer window he could make out the outline of a figure , seated and immobile , facing the sea . |
| 8 | Even at this distance he could make out the faint octarine glow in the air that must be indicating a stable magic aura of at least — he gasped — several milliprime ? |
| 9 | When he saw the saxaphone he told his father about it and his father said that if he could save half the money , he would make up the other half . ’ |
| 10 | " If at the end of seven years , he can make up the fraction of a quarto forme and impose it , or is able to lay down a sheet of 16 's correctly , the apprentice so qualified may considered himself well advanced . " |