Example sentences of "made [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against doctor 's advice , and protected by specially made up mesh clothing , he continued to the finish . |
| 2 | Two huge frying pans were being wielded on charcoal fires by a pair of vividly made up girls in blue jeans and flowered blouses . |
| 3 | Only slightly less controversially , Orton also made up letters to newspaper agony aunts — ‘ What can I do because my boyfriend wo n't kiss me ? ’ |
| 4 | But they 've made up stories about Ships coming from other worlds . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ A lot of the boys would n't believe John , he 'd made up stories before , but all the girls believed me . |
| 6 | That bias towards comfort has meant compromises as far as sporting handling is concerned ; so you do n't have to put up with a jittery ride over poorly made up roads . |
| 7 | Nylon is made waterproof during the weaving process using a high temperature/oven baking method which can not be repeated on a made up tent . |
| 8 | The directors and executives of Equity Funding simply made up insurance policies to inflate the company 's business and hence improve its share prices . |
| 9 | The result is made up eyebrows or lip lines that last for at least a year — but it does n't come cheap . |
| 10 | The term is used mainly for made up composts in which the rock particle is the missing component , usually to avoid the risk , despite sterilization , of introducing disease . |
| 11 | On the morning of his operation a nurse helped Mr Reynolds to put on an operation gown after his bath and then encouraged him to rest in his freshly made up bed . |
| 12 | Yet the first British census of Palestine showed that Jews only made up 11% of the population . |
| 13 | The disadvantage of the latter system is that there is a tendency to stuff all the envelopes in a section with the material simply because it is easier than going through m all , and because the gaps will have to be made up envelopes wasted if only a few are to left out of one section . |
| 14 | Yeah and we 've seen some different erm they had I think it was actually waiver paper as well when Murdoch bought it , and for a while he honoured the political content and then he decided he was gon na do major changes , and this may all sound familiar to you but erm the effect that that had I mean not only on the , on the , on the end up being this side , but also on erm the Mirror because it meant that Page Three Girls were in on the Daily Record in Scotland erm it was , it was quite profound I mean there 's a broader argument here as to whether you you should get pampered to those possible denominator to taste erm it 's interesting that the Daily Sport and the Sunday Sport which are two I do n't know if they have anything like it in Japan , but they 're a bit like the National Enquirer erm it 's all made up baseball there 's a sad proportion of erm journalist stories of fantasy land stuff erm along with erm photographic content and er copy content which probably |
| 15 | She reached up , and kissing him fiercely on the lips , whispered a rhyme she had made up years before : " Tristram Pascoe , Tristram Pascoe , never , never let your lass go ! " — and when they had hugged , she watched him climb nimbly over the wall and heard him jump down into the hayfield on the other side . |
| 16 | However , in 1913 foreign investment still made up 25% of the money invested in Russian industry . |
| 17 | She sometimes pulled herself into a corner of the cabin with Roukoubé across her knees on his stomach and patted out a tune softly as she rubbed his back after feeding him , but she no longer made up words : she had no more words , indeed it seemed to her she no longer owned a voice , but only a hollow drum for a head on which others beat their summons . |
| 18 | I think there 's another point around that about erm , the image that 's portrayed by the media and and to be successful in your career you must be a slim , well made up woman erm , and thinness equates with success and an ability to get on in life . |
| 19 | Yes and on the whole recently we 've had prisoners who been imprison for sort of two or three years , we 've , we 've made up petitions , we 've sent postcards and we 've , we 've written letters and er they 've been released in reasonably short space of time , but then mostly the prisoners which , who have n't had a very long sentence , unlike the one I mentioned on the way here tonight , have the Russian who had been in thirty years |
| 20 | Green must also have been helped by the growing availability of good water colour paints as only towards the end of the 18th century could amateurs easily obtain made up colours . |
| 21 | I have been present at occasions of celebration when poets and singers — there is often no distinction since poems tend to be sung or chanted — have made up verses on the spot and provided a seemingly endless number of embellishments . |