Example sentences of "could make [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 | After a couple of hundred yards the jungle thinned , and I could make out the towering white cliffs of the apartments building . |
| 6 | For , if I am the world ’ — we were heading down again , his nails digging into my flesh , I could make out the Eastern Mediterranean — ‘ then the world must be real . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | From somewhere far away , she could make out the screaming whine of an emergency vehicle in a hurry . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Gradually we could make out the shaking fronds of the trees , the thick herbs at the side of the path . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Straining to listen , the boy thought he could make out the soft fall of footsteps on the snuffled ground between the trees . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | As he spoke I could make out the red roofs of the bungalows dotted among the green trees . |
| 16 | Sure enough , he could make out the same almost subsonic throbbing as he had heard earlier . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |