make one's case
make out a case

The police will soon make out a case against him.

It is possible to make out a case for all three.

He made out a case for dressing down rather than up.

I knew that without his testimony we could not make out a case.

He could make out a case that the asteroid was his.

I think you'd find it hard to make out a case of blackmail against me.

Yet in a dim confused way I think be was making out a case.

Perhaps she should stay and try and make out a case for herself.

"I think we can make out a case for his being a political refugee.

You see, it's going to be most frightfully hard to make out a case of murder against him.

So set yourself the task of suggesting a simple argument or answer and then you can try to make out a case for it.

The lawyer said this was making it hard for the Justice Department to make out a case.

Frankly, I'm not convinced yet, but you certainly can make out a case."

And anyway, you haven't made out a case against the neck."

Both sides could make out a case that they deserved to win and should have been awarded penalties.

It seems to me that you need more substance to your allegations to make out a case for electoral fraud.

We can make out a case without him, but his testimony corroborates the circumstantial evidence.

Human history is so rich and complicated that you can make out a case for any course of improvement or retrogression.

Out of a few words, foolishly spoken perhaps, he has made out a case against me.

"But we would make out a case at the trial," says Lenore, "a convincing defense."

"It is one thing to make out a case of overreaching as between parties bargaining not at arm's length," he wrote.

"You think I've made out a case, then?"

"I'm hanged if you don't make out a case.

We could make out a case.

The first was whether or not the respondents had made out a case for eviction in terms of PIE.