Example sentences of "[pron] have make up [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 and like I thought , I had to make up an excuse why I went out !
3 ‘ When I 've made up a lie I can believe in , ’ came the reply .
4 " 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 .
5 You 've made up every word of it and you know it .
6 But if you 've made up the gain at all , then since it 's residential property , it 's exempt .
7 However , the countess was later charged with perverting the course of justice after police became convinced she had made up the story .
8 ‘ 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 .
9 So it did n't necessarily mean that you get a squad of riveters that would stayed together all the time , erm for various reasons , as I say they may have been , unfortunately some of them might even die and therefore you had to make up the squad again
10 But Mr Stewart said : ‘ You are a liar and you have made up the story about the gun and the threats to kill . ’
11 We have to make up a team though do n't we ?
12 the teachers are n't allowed to dictate the children , if they want erm to do something or make something they have to make up a plan of what they 're gon na do first
13 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 . ’
14 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 .
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