Example sentences of "make out [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Almost — but I could just make out a narrow stretch half-way over where the water flowed smooth and fast with each swell .
2 Could n't make out a damn thing from either one of them .
3 The cloth inside muffled the noise , but when he got close to the window he could make out a human voice .
4 Blanche could just make out a flabby shape in the back seat .
5 And now it was out of its glass frame he could make out a faded signature at the bottom :
6 In the dim upper reaches of the roof , she could now make out a cylindrical object with a dulled metallic glint .
7 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 .
8 We could vaguely make out a few buildings as we caught the bubble up to La Saulire , and then headed down into Courchevel .
9 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 .
10 The light gradually faded , allowing a clearer view of the craft — Bash could now make out a thin outline , a panel or … a door !
11 Robert could just make out a thin line of boys struggling through the trees at the edge of the horizon .
12 Along it , Theodora could just make out a lone rider heading back to the stable .
13 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 .
14 It even had a name , he could just make out the tiny print .
15 All the pictures he showed me looked the same messy blur but he insisted he could make out the individual features of each person .
16 His grey moustache bristled ; he was so close that Loretta could make out the individual hairs .
17 From somewhere far away , she could make out the screaming whine of an emergency vehicle in a hurry .
18 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 .
19 He could just make out the two rows of cottages and the fields beyond them .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 By peering hard in the same direction , I could just make out the faint flicker of a distant plane .
26 Between the ranks of bared heads ( one or another of which would occasionally turn to take a quick glance of inspection at his own face ) he could just make out the graceful figure of Mrs Wright herself , kneeling on a hassock in front of the table .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 Yes , through the gloom she could just make out the dried-up fountain in the middle of it , and , straight ahead , the huge studded doors of a church .
30 He could still make out the huge man-shape , lying face down , its outline glowing from the residual embers of the phosphorus , like a blackened , smoking tree trunk .
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