Example sentences of "[verb] to make [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember , if you go to a late-night party , you 'll need to make up those lost hours of sleep — probably at week-ends . |
| 2 | How many sixths would you need to make up a third ? |
| 3 | Right now what do we need to make up our forty five ? |
| 4 | Erm , I think that the comments that Chair made ar are extremely bias , in what she 's saying , I think is , that it looks as if , if erm , the minister is beginning to realise this simply ca n't go on , this this disproportionate funding , and that is what is so unfair , and I think it does need to make quite clear to grant maintained schools , that there is , it , there is that possibility that that will be reduced , because they need to know that just as well , for balancing their own budgets in the future . |
| 5 | In contrast , when the child is having difficulty , the adult may need to make more frequent contributions of a different kind in order to help the child express her ideas in words . |
| 6 | ‘ The cost of a vessel such as the Khan has described will be beyond a trader 's reach , Noyon , given that men are permitted to make only a profit from an enterprise which may be considered just . |
| 7 | It needs to make up its mind whether Greece has some special purpose in the world , apart from survival , and if so how this purpose fits into the wider patterns of Europe . |
| 8 | Equally , the lesbian and gay movement needs to make far more serious and energetic efforts to rid itself of racist assumptions in its political agenda . |
| 9 | These are mixes which are designed for the horse owner who still wants to feed traditionally ie oats etc , but wants to make up the deficiencies with a specific mix . |
| 10 | But he 's back for tomorrow 's clash in neutral Germany at Bochum 's Ruhr Stadium , and manager Walter Smith said : ‘ Ally is bubbling and wants to make up for missing three games when he could have scored more goals . |
| 11 | If she 's crying for some other reason like because we 've been quarrelling and she wants to make up but does n't know how to I just put my arms round her and cuddle her and let her cry it out . |
| 12 | The Council wants to make out that you 've got to let them have the first option |
| 13 | Everton , still without their regular centre-backs Ratcliffe and Watson because of injury , again tried to make up for this by playing Snodin as a spare centre-back behind Keown and McDonald . |
| 14 | When they could hold it no longer the Collector shouted the order to retire to the next door : that which led from the drawing-room to the hall and where , several weeks earlier , the Collector had been lurking as he tried to make up his mind to attend the meeting of the Krishnapur Poetry Society . |
| 15 | But , you know , in those months we had together she really tried to make up . |
| 16 | I tried to make up my mind about Conchis too . |
| 17 | Donleavy tried to make up for it later by arranging a champagne thank-you weekend for the Colemans at the DIA 's expense in an exclusive little Georgetown hotel , but by then they were almost too tired to enjoy it . |
| 18 | She 'd been slow to see that , and tried to make up for it by saying quickly : ‘ Her jumping over ca n't have helped Eismark 's career . ’ |
| 19 | They had n't come in yet so I started getting some food ready and tried to make up my mind what to tell Rick . |
| 20 | On the other hand he agreed that the Americans could not risk the destruction of their own forces in Britain by a pre-emptive Soviet strike or allow a major part of their bomber force to remain earth-bound while British ministers tried to make up their minds . |
| 21 | The roar from that great thoroughfare was deafening : traders , merchants and apprentices shouted themselves hoarse as they tried to make up for their previous loss of trade . |
| 22 | A few tried to make even their skin as inconspicuous as possible as white as possible . |
| 23 | Hovering in the doorway , Wilson heard Mr Browning plead with her to say something to him and then she listened while he tried to make out a case for the French Emperor , to argue this might not be the betrayal it seemed , and that all hope might not be lost . |
| 24 | She tried to make out an expression on his creased face . |
| 25 | But stand-in skipper McAllister took all this flak in his assured stride and said : ‘ That 's two weeks running we 've been rubbish because Graeme Souness tried to make out Liverpool were the better side after the Charity Shield . |
| 26 | In consternation , she tried to make out why the hard , grim mouth had become so appealing . |
| 27 | She tried to make out from the hill , as she jogged down the track , whether the ferryboat was plying among the craft in the harbour . |
| 28 | Since the Socialists afterwards tried to make out that this was a personal and private effort by the head of the Cecils , it is important to record that Lord Salisbury merely acted as a means of conveying to the Queen the general view inside the Party . |
| 29 | It was probably a Barbarian female who tried to make out that a woman 's work is never done . |
| 30 | Oh the story of this particular one is that it er er they tried to make out that the erm that the the the the shark has actually got something against the human beings on this boat and it keeps chasing them . |