Example sentences of "and made [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 On seeking to patent his process , Castner discovered that a similar patent had been lodged in Germany by Karl Kellner and made over to the powerful Solvay Company in Belgium .
2 St Jude 's Square lay before her , level and familiar , flanked by its old taverns and the graceful iron railings of St Jude 's churchyard where Luke still often waited for her ; the square crowded and ebullient today with the stalls for the Friday market , with traders and dealers and pedlars of fancy braids and buttons , fans , feathers , bright little birds in cages , beads , sequins , second-hand dresses that could be unpicked and made over , second-hand bonnets that could be remodelled , old belts that sometimes had decent buckles , sugar sticks the colour of rubies and emeralds that would be a treat for Liam .
3 PARIS — The French Army , fatigued by khaki , is to get a new ‘ modular ’ uniform designed by Pierre Balmain and made up in a grey-blue colour known as Terre de France .
4 As the small group of less than one hundred people genuinely opposed to the showing of the film sang hymns and said the rosary , the group of luridly dressed and made up ‘ acolytes ’ loudly parodied their prayers with phrases like ‘ General Franco pray for us ’ and ‘ General Pinochet stand by us . ’
5 When she was dressed and made up and prepared for it , she enjoyed the attention , she enjoyed being photographed , and she found the sight of her face on the covers of magazines and newspapers enormously exciting .
6 They later kissed and made up when Ilona renounced her Love party tendencies .
7 The tunnel was seven feet in diameter and made up of cast-iron segments with its own air-conditioning plant , lighting and heating .
8 Fortunately , journalist Brigid McConville was available to help tussle with the almost impossible task of distilling up to 1,000 pages of transcript and even more pages of documents into eight sides of pithy words , all of which were edited and made up into camera-ready artwork at the inquiry itself .
9 When Cheddar was finally reached at about ten o'clock , no one would take them in , until an innkeeper had pity on them and made up a bed in the garret .
10 It is 2.4 m in diameter , and made up of three vertical blades which rotate in the river 's current , connected to a generator .
11 Those designs are mine , done in my own time and made up by my own outworkers .
12 A SCHOOLGIRL yesterday dropped a legal bid to divorce her parents after she kissed and made up with her mum .
13 5.3.1 an aggregate sum of ten thousand dollars ( $10,000 ) as an advance on the sums due under clause 5.3.2 below and made up of the following payments :
14 When Liza seemed surprised , even put out , at this , she hastily altered her arrangements and made up two single beds in the larger room overlooking the sea .
15 Burr said : ‘ No tears were shed — we just kissed and made up . ’
16 The paraglider itself is rectangular and made up of numerous cells or pockets running from the front to the rear of the wing .
17 Miss Dunstable surveyed this evidence of — to her mind — most proper domestic industry , from a hundred yards away , on the footpath to her favourite walk , and made up her mind on the side of tolerance .
18 This year , sales here increased 133% to £5.6m , and made up 45% of all new licence sales .
19 What I think is , there 's an Iron Age settlement at the top of the Grove , and I think someone found this woman 's skull there , and made up a story about it , the way people do . ’
20 She riddled the dust and made up the fire and said , ‘ You two make friends time that 's cooked .
21 Baldwin contemplated all this at Aix , and made up his mind both to go for protection and to put at risk the first independent Conservative majority for two decades .
22 Some are direct and made up of straight lines , others meander around ; in some the electron moves fast , in others it dawdles .
23 It passes first through high , increasingly thin pastures and then between tremendous rock-falls to the small settlement of Héas , the highest it is said anywhere in the Pyrenees , at 5,000 feet , swamped by an avalanche in 1915 and made up today only of a chapel and two or three houses .
24 So he took several thousand dollars from his own pocket , collected contributions from peers , and made up his own bonus pool for everyone down to the clerks who had contributed .
25 People who work through and are paid by agencies numbered only some 50,000 in 1984 and made up only just over three per cent of the total temporary labour force .
26 She unpegged half a dozen , and made up a bed on a pile of linen .
27 Even the streets are like a dorm these days , with much peer-group pressure and unpredictably intense scrutiny , adolescent , unpleasant , sexual but sexually obscure or half-formed , and made up of ridiculous postures which no one is allowed to laugh at .
28 She could not speak , indeed , it was said she had not spoken for decades , though once she had been a singer and made up songs that others learned after her and still sang .
29 1 The chief characteristic of society is that it is " open " and made up of many interests that freely and automatically form themselves into a whole variety of groups .
30 ‘ It was partly the Welshness of it all which appealed to her — the wool is grown , spun , woven and made up here in Wales , but it was also her feeling that in the commercial life everything was grab , grab , grab and here was a little corner of the world where she could do a bit of good . ’
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