Example sentences of "make up a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The wife has already made up a spare bed in Susan 's room . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Jim and Tina had made up a foursome with Jean Hay and Bruce Mackenzie . |
| 4 | The surface of the Earth is made up a number of plates , and these move relative to each other . |
| 5 | ‘ When I 've made up a lie I can believe in , ’ came the reply . |
| 6 | " 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | women still made up a small proportion of postgraduate IT students in 1983–84 — just 13 per cent ; |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I had even made up a 19 foot rod with an astronomical test curve and weighing a ton but it made no difference ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She could make up a story , say she suffered temporary amnesia , or that she was knocked unconscious by thieves and all her money was gone , but she doubted she could make it sound believable . |
| 14 | Conversely , if you are building up to a competition and wish to greatly increase your fitness and endurance , the FDR should be very intense and should make up a large part of your training . |
| 15 | This way , you can make up a ‘ hit list ’ of personnel within companies to whom you want to send your tape . |
| 16 | ‘ But why in hell should the police make up a story about an accident ? ’ |
| 17 | But these are isolated groups which do not make up a force . ’ |
| 18 | The things which came out in therapy did not make up a complete , finished jigsaw , as I might have imagined . |
| 19 | I have quoted this passage in full , not because I think it is particularly inspired or even well-written , but because it is the nearest attempt I have come across to suggest some of the subjective , hidden meanings that might well make up a performer 's luggage when he expresses himself on stage . |
| 20 | You could make up a whole story . |
| 21 | Ever wish you could make up a degree course to suit your own needs ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Perhaps we could make up a party . |
| 25 | If there are enough of you , you can make up a more formal self-help group . |
| 26 | You can also make up a book of spells and write spells on a piece of paper , or even a menu for witches ' stew . |
| 27 | They do make up a minor genre : the expedition into Darkest Britain , as trekked by George Orwell and a trickle of disciples up to , and including , the Belfast writer and photographer team of Robert McLiam Wilson and Donovan Wylie , who publish The Dispossessed ( Picador ) this week . |
| 28 | The NCT sessions encouraged everyone to ask ‘ daft ’ questions — the sort that do not seem daft if you do not know the answers — like how do I make up a nappy , how many sterilising tablets do I use for the bottles and what should we buy before the baby is born ? |
| 29 | Ramsay , who found himself at the head of nearly a thousand men of Lothian , largely Lindsays — whose chief , Sir David , Keeper of Edinburgh Castle , was sick and so not present — Setons , Hepburns , Sinclairs , Keiths and other lesser clans , as well as his own men , offered to ride fast for the Borderland , to join Scott of Rankilburn whom Douglas had alerted to watch Dunbar ; together they would make up a force large enough to give that Earl pause . |
| 30 | Using a wedding bouquet as an example , and assuming that you are either attending the function or collecting the bouquet afterwards , you should make up a simple box , such as the one shown in the photograph . |