Example sentences of "made [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No I think it could save lives , because it means that we have immediate access er to what 's going on and so on rare occasions , life and death decisions can be made down the telephone . |
| 2 | Miss Southworth said the woman had made up the story to friends and was then forced to go through with it , after complaints were made to the police . |
| 3 | Equity investors have made up the difference . |
| 4 | But there were evenings when the fire burned brightly and Aunt Louise sat in her winged chair , her skirt turned back to toast her knees ; while having made up the fire I knelt on the hearthrug , loath to leave the fierce heat of the flames . |
| 5 | But still , the great majority of posts are held by the sort of steady chaps who have always made up the Great and Good . |
| 6 | Well , note first of all that the various gases that are thought to have made up the early atmosphere contain most of the main elements that are known to be essential to life : carbon , nitrogen , sulphur , hydrogen , and oxygen — though the oxygen was not ‘ free ’ , but was combined for example with carbon in carbon monoxide . |
| 7 | Blanche may have made up the prowling . |
| 8 | The groom said one of her horses died of colic or some such recently , from eating the wrong things , and the trainer did n't want any more accidents , so he 'd made up the feeds himself . ’ |
| 9 | Mr Parker , 33 , denied that Joanna , 25 , could have made up the story . |
| 10 | ‘ I think so , ’ answered Mildred , though in fact she had made up the tale on the spur of the moment and it had somehow got rather out of hand . |
| 11 | The shock can have a sudden and lasting effect ; the woman 's energy is no longer channelled into her appearance , and it seems as if she has made up the extra ten years , and more , all at once . |
| 12 | The few small cottages which had once made up the village community had been bulldozed into the ground and their occupants moved into the grey and faceless high-rise apartment blocks of the new urban development . |
| 13 | The pieces we loaned made up the ‘ influence of ’ section , with each piece was a particularly rare and important example of Japonisme as applied to domestic silver , and we shall have some of those pieces displayed for sale at this year 's fair . |
| 14 | ‘ You just made up the word , ’ he tells me , as if that is forbidden . |
| 15 | Made up the words and music to a Christmas carol ? |
| 16 | But if you 've made up the gain at all , then since it 's residential property , it 's exempt . |
| 17 | Following the elections to the Basque parliament on Oct. 28 , 1990 , the formation of a new regional government had been delayed for three months due to the breakdown of talks between the two parties which had made up the previous governing coalition — the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) , which had emerged as the largest single party , with 22 seats , and the Basque Socialist Party ( PSE-PSOE ) which had been beaten into second place . |
| 18 | But Mr Stewart said : ‘ You are a liar and you have made up the story about the gun and the threats to kill . ’ |
| 19 | However , the countess was later charged with perverting the course of justice after police became convinced she had made up the story . |
| 20 | The black comedy of the gallows scene in Verdi 's Un ballo in maschera is very Verdian and also very Karajanesque ; and though Karajan often made out the critics in Strauss 's Ein Heldenleben to be a nicer bunch than they probably are , I have yet to hear a more vitriolically gossipy performance of the ‘ Tritsch-Tratsch ’ Polka than the one Karajan conducted with the Philharmonia Orchestra in one of his last recordings with them in September 1960 . |
| 21 | He turned back to the glaring headlights and dimly made out the terrified eyes of the drivers and their passengers . |
| 22 | Putting the light on would be too risky , but the curtains were drawn back and by now their eyes had become accustomed to a darkness in which could be made out the shapes of furniture and smaller objects , a darkness of monochrome and black spaces and faintly gleaming edges . |
| 23 | After she 'd made out the application for him she said , ‘ Can you manage if I leave you with it ? ’ |