Example sentences of "make [adv] the word " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You just made up the word , ’ he tells me , as if that is forbidden . |
| 2 | ‘ I think you just made up the word . ’ |
| 3 | The underlined letters of each country make up the word . |
| 4 | The term syntagmatic was attached by Saussure to the sequential or combinatory relationships that a given language system permits : the relationship between the three sounds , for instance , that make up the word ‘ tree ’ , or the syntactical relationship between the words ‘ the tree is green ’ , and so on . |
| 5 | The dirty chipped name plate was difficult to read but he could just make out the word Nettles on it . |
| 6 | The players with the required letters then form a line to make up the word as fast as they can , and the team which does it the quickest gets a point . |
| 7 | PONCE : The bit that goes at the end of ‘ Res ’ to make up the word ‘ Response ’ . |