Example sentences of "make [adv prt] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He would make up chunks of speech for me . |
| 2 | In the year 2000 gas will make up 40% of USSR energy production . |
| 3 | There was n't a tree in sight , but nearer the cliff edge she could make out carpets of thrift and sea-campion , and yearned to explore . |
| 4 | Listening carefully , could just make out sounds of movement from somewhere down below . |
| 5 | Once , Swan flew higher than ever before and they came to an enormous billowing cloud that was shining in a pale golden light , and in the folds of this cloud Little Billy could make out creatures of some sort moving around . |
| 6 | I could just make out part of the stonework , though most of it was under water . |
| 7 | Excited to find she could just make out traces of narrow fields with dividing banks and walls , she ventured further towards a rounded mound which could well have been an Iron Age barrow , and just beyond it she found the standing stone , where she shivered pleasurably , her imagination running riot about the monolith 's precise function in the days when the settlement had been a live , thriving community . |
| 8 | They could make out stands of wooden shelving in the gloom , the nearest cheeses a luminous white , the furthest ones matured to a dark , oily yellow . |