Example sentences of "[conj] make up " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is of course a very difficult subject to talk about and many families who know or suspect that a relative has killed himself or tried to , are ashamed and refuse to talk about it , or make up all kinds of stories to cover the fact up . |
| 2 | You might want to add to a set of chairs that you already possess , or make up a matching chair to one at home . |
| 3 | Or Make up a story about meeting a sea monster . |
| 4 | 3 Starting Either use the Starter sentence , or make up one of your own . |
| 5 | Erm there is a further implication in this conception , and again I quote whosoever therefore out of a state of nature unite into a community must be understood to give up all the power necessary to the ends for which they unite into a society to the majority of the community unless they expressly agreed in any number greater than the majority and this is done where are we by barely agreeing to unite into one political society which is all the compact that is or needs to be between the individuals that enter into or make up a commonwealth . |
| 6 | Instead they went in for archaic exclamations such as ‘ Botheration ! ’ or made up their own : ‘ Slitherkins ! ’ |
| 7 | It also tells us whether the unknown letter is a single segment letter , or made up from a combination of two segments . |
| 8 | Some years ago the word ‘ psychosomatic ’ was often prefaced by the word ‘ merely ’ and was used to suggest that an illness was in some way unreal or made up . |
| 9 | Some of the American crop were typed but their tone matched those handwritten or made up of letters and words snipped from publications . |
| 10 | ‘ … or made up the answers , as you found on Sunday ? ’ |
| 11 | You could use this idea for any season of the year , either copying a poem you know or making up your own : a poem written by a friend or loved one can be a much treasured gift . |
| 12 | It is interesting to note that some , if not all , of this initial stimulus work can be recorded and made available individually for refreshing the memory , checking particular phenomena or making up for absence . |
| 13 | The fourth factor is that there 's really no point in giving people orders or making up policies or decisions unless the people who receive the orders have the resources to carry them out . |
| 14 | This has become so serious a concern that early in 1991 , less than a year before their latest deadline for the launch of CD-I , Philips themselves established their own CD-I publishing operation , perhaps in an effort to energise CD-I disc investment or to make up for the lack of it . |
| 15 | Is n't it such a pity that when it comes to the playing of the game he either forgets the rules or makes up new ones . |
| 16 | Now that we knew the line , we progressed quickly into the wild world of the seemingly blank walls and hanging stances that made up the meat of the route . |
| 17 | Pictured left are Bill , his wife , the vehicles that made up the Antiques Roadshow and their energetic and skilful riders . |
| 18 | In the quiet of the dawn , the young platoon commanders and their sergeants walked around the four vehicLes that made up their command , to check their soldiers and their equipment . |
| 19 | Graham Greene fairly remarked of the amorphous string of sequences that made up Rembrandt that ‘ no amount of money spent on expensive sets , on careful photography , will atone for the lack of a storyline , the continuity and drive of a well-constructed plot . ’ |
| 20 | I decided to examine some of the services that made up this massive total . |
| 21 | The seven communities that made up the population of Møn in those days ranged round one or other of the churches and each community made itself known to the others in a common language of bells . |
| 22 | He put little slips of paper in the entries that made up his fragile narrative or non-narrative . |
| 23 | The palace of ‘ Black Ab ’ , the grandfather of King Hussein , overlooked the mosque , the bazaar and the huddle of insanitary buildings that made up the capital . |
| 24 | The port of Anjer quite simply ceased to exist as the succession of great waves washed over it , carrying away all the flimsy wooden buildings that made up the town . |
| 25 | At the top right of the figure , which shows the highest level of completeness , there is a cluster of owl assemblages containing the same species that made up the typical owl pattern designated in the previous section : barn owl , long-eared owl , short-eared owl , great grey owl and Verreaux eagle owl . |
| 26 | In Warmia and Mazuria , two of the districts that made up East Prussia , the Poles suffered serious reverses , gaining only 3 of the 28 disputed villages . |
| 27 | Within the three large rooms were partitions that made up other , smaller rooms , and the kitchen , which contained the bath . |
| 28 | As the Goods sit in Kelly 's bedroom surrounded by the bits and pieces that made up her world , Mike picks up her diary . |
| 29 | Of the 16 funds that made up our Global Strategy umbrella fund when it was launched five years ago , no less than four have come first in their respective sectors over this period , according to Finstat . |
| 30 | Professor Khan had been a crucial cog in the great mesh of wheels that made up the whole for the creation of an Iraqi nuclear warhead . |