Example sentences of "made up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've made up every word of it and you know it . |
| 2 | ‘ The wife has already made up a spare bed in Susan 's room . |
| 3 | Trow Gill is dry , a grass slope rising and narrowing to a breach in the cliffs at the top , a passage through it being made up a tumble of boulders . |
| 4 | Jim and Tina had made up a foursome with Jean Hay and Bruce Mackenzie . |
| 5 | The surface of the Earth is made up a number of plates , and these move relative to each other . |
| 6 | ‘ When I 've made up a lie I can believe in , ’ came the reply . |
| 7 | " No , my dear , you are just as tired as I am , and I shall rest presently in the dressing-room where I have made up a bed for myself . |
| 8 | I had made up a sort of flattened octopus-like creature , with electrically lit eyes , which we stretched out onto a frame and placed in a shallow trough of water so that it was only just submerged . |
| 9 | Camille accused herself of lack of foresight and rapidly made up a yarn whereby they had thought better of the dinner-party and had spent the evening playing Monopoly at Tim 's place in a blameless fashion . |
| 10 | women still made up a small proportion of postgraduate IT students in 1983–84 — just 13 per cent ; |
| 11 | Occasionally she went out with Diane from the neighbouring flat , and once made up a foursome with one of Diane 's boyfriends and another man . |
| 12 | I had even made up a 19 foot rod with an astronomical test curve and weighing a ton but it made no difference ! |
| 13 | Cross-examined by Bert Kerrigan , QC , for Murray , Mr Mackie denied that he had made up a pack of lies because he held a grudge against his former boss . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Equity investors have made up the difference . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But still , the great majority of posts are held by the sort of steady chaps who have always made up the Great and Good . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Blanche may have made up the prowling . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | Mr Parker , 33 , denied that Joanna , 25 , could have made up the story . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ You just made up the word , ’ he tells me , as if that is forbidden . |
| 27 | Made up the words and music to a Christmas carol ? |
| 28 | But if you 've made up the gain at all , then since it 's residential property , it 's exempt . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But Mr Stewart said : ‘ You are a liar and you have made up the story about the gun and the threats to kill . ’ |