Example sentences of "or make up " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is of course a very difficult subject to talk about and many families who know or suspect that a relative has killed himself or tried to , are ashamed and refuse to talk about it , or make up all kinds of stories to cover the fact up . |
| 2 | You might want to add to a set of chairs that you already possess , or make up a matching chair to one at home . |
| 3 | Or Make up a story about meeting a sea monster . |
| 4 | 3 Starting Either use the Starter sentence , or make up one of your own . |
| 5 | Erm there is a further implication in this conception , and again I quote whosoever therefore out of a state of nature unite into a community must be understood to give up all the power necessary to the ends for which they unite into a society to the majority of the community unless they expressly agreed in any number greater than the majority and this is done where are we by barely agreeing to unite into one political society which is all the compact that is or needs to be between the individuals that enter into or make up a commonwealth . |
| 6 | Instead they went in for archaic exclamations such as ‘ Botheration ! ’ or made up their own : ‘ Slitherkins ! ’ |
| 7 | It also tells us whether the unknown letter is a single segment letter , or made up from a combination of two segments . |
| 8 | Some years ago the word ‘ psychosomatic ’ was often prefaced by the word ‘ merely ’ and was used to suggest that an illness was in some way unreal or made up . |
| 9 | Some of the American crop were typed but their tone matched those handwritten or made up of letters and words snipped from publications . |
| 10 | ‘ … or made up the answers , as you found on Sunday ? ’ |
| 11 | You could use this idea for any season of the year , either copying a poem you know or making up your own : a poem written by a friend or loved one can be a much treasured gift . |
| 12 | It is interesting to note that some , if not all , of this initial stimulus work can be recorded and made available individually for refreshing the memory , checking particular phenomena or making up for absence . |
| 13 | The fourth factor is that there 's really no point in giving people orders or making up policies or decisions unless the people who receive the orders have the resources to carry them out . |
| 14 | This has become so serious a concern that early in 1991 , less than a year before their latest deadline for the launch of CD-I , Philips themselves established their own CD-I publishing operation , perhaps in an effort to energise CD-I disc investment or to make up for the lack of it . |
| 15 | Is n't it such a pity that when it comes to the playing of the game he either forgets the rules or makes up new ones . |