Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] make up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them made up the remnants of a tiny battery , source identified . |
| 2 | McAllister , happily unaware of who made up the party , watched these inhabitants of the world in which she had lived since she was eight years old stare and chatter as they made their way through the doorway , Mr Sands bowing and scraping at them as befitted a poor relation to whom they were doing a favour , the rest of the bazaar 's patrons staring at these strange beings , male and female , as though they were visitors from another planet , perhaps one described by Mr H. G. Wells . |
| 3 | Most of it makes up the timber framework of the trees . |
| 4 | If she was right , they had 2,700 kilometres , or about 1,700 miles in which to make up the leeway . |
| 5 | He offered to forgo part of his salary as long as some employment would be found for him to make up the difference . |
| 6 | Would you give them a hundred thousand pounds worth of life cover for a shorter period , looking at them making up the difference perhaps later when they could afford it , or would you give them initially a reduced amount of life cover , say eighty thousand , for the eighteen years ? |