Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb mod] make [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Doctor followed the narrow road down through a small valley , before climbing back up towards a bare hilltop where he could make out a number of tiny wooden crosses , like a forest of lifeless bonsai trees . |
| 2 | You have to say you ca n't do that I 'll make up a new game to play . |
| 3 | The fields shone a new green in the sun , and the air which for days had been hazy had been cleaned by the rain so that I could make out the shapes of sheep grazing near the old Coal Road above Cowgill as I walked down the lane . |
| 4 | After a couple of hundred yards the jungle thinned , and I could make out the towering white cliffs of the apartments building . |
| 5 | And I used to make out the rosters . |
| 6 | I 'll find some sheets presently and you can make up a bed in the spare room . |
| 7 | ‘ Right then , I 've called out enough instructions , now I 'll point to one of you and you must make up the instruction to be obeyed in just the same way as I have been doing . |
| 8 | All the internal doors were open and she could make out the tumbled travel bags she had left half-packed and which now spilled their contents across the room . |
| 9 | But the yard one of the yard inspectors came to me and said , I wonder if you would make up a roster for the supervisors . |
| 10 | If you can make out the lyrics — and it 's difficult enough to find a song in this aural tirade — you 'll be subconsciously ordered to slaughter small children on the bus home . |
| 11 | If you could make up a sentence with those . |
| 12 | You concealed knowledge of a deserter , you actually helped him stay deserted , and They can make out a case for saying you still are . |
| 13 | If you are n't find an old fashioned TV repair shop and ask them if they 'll make up the leads for you . |
| 14 | Each student can make up a package of tests to go for ; he may repeat those that he fails , without the social disaster of being kept down a year ; and he may make up a mix of practical and theoretical according to a plan worked out with his class teacher , and bearing in mind what he aims to do next . |
| 15 | Most of it was double-dutch to me but I could make out the names entered in columns . |
| 16 | It was dark down below , but she could make out the shapes of beer kegs . |
| 17 | It was difficult to see her backside in the mirror , but she could make out the pink weals which had been raised on her tender white bum-cheeks by the little squirt . |
| 18 | But as far as I could make out the Ambassador was away . |
| 19 | ‘ As far as I can make out no one has yet said conclusively that this man is Greg Martin' , she argued . |
| 20 | The area had been given an unfair image by ‘ so far as I can make out a group of tearaways who are , at the moment , completely uncontrollable . |
| 21 | In so far as I can make out the policy of the Labour party , it is to give the business rate back to local authorities . |
| 22 | Near as we can make out the SunSoft deal with Motorola Inc for the PowerPC ( see front page ) is very fresh . |