Example sentences of "make [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From this month on , junkies need make only a telephone call to exchange their used , possibly-AIDS bearing , needles for new clean ones , delivered free of charge . |
| 2 | ‘ Shush , Mamma , ’ Rosa had said , and then Sabina had come in again with the bird — it would make only a bite to eat . |
| 3 | Can I make just a suggestion ? |
| 4 | Two days later , Allitt helped a doctor make up a drug he was being treated with and was left alone in the treatment room while the doctor saw another patient , said Mr Goldring . |
| 5 | Ever wish you could make up a degree course to suit your own needs ? |
| 6 | So , although it is possible to conceive of any event as an incarnation of the totality , insofar as it must itself make up a part of that totality in its determination , unlike the case of the boxing match , where we can define the overall entity ‘ boxing ’ , it still remains unproven that an overall entity , ‘ History ’ , can be said to exist at all . |
| 7 | I 'll find some sheets presently and you can make up a bed in the spare room . |
| 8 | I 'll make up a bed in one of the other rooms tonight . |
| 9 | But the yard one of the yard inspectors came to me and said , I wonder if you would make up a roster for the supervisors . |
| 10 | Erm I 'll make up a spreadsheet with twenty five or thirty blank columns , but with all the formulas in place |
| 11 | If you could make up a sentence with those . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ But why in hell should the police make up a story about an accident ? ’ |
| 14 | The three main stars , Beta ( 3.0 ) , Alpha ( 3.4 ) and Gamma ( 4.0 ) do indeed make up a triangle , midway between Alpha Arietis and Gamma Andromedæ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This example was meant to illustrate the unexpected links that might make up a chain of natural interactions , but it is significant that no experimental work was done to test the idea . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | You can also make up a book of spells and write spells on a piece of paper , or even a menu for witches ' stew . |
| 19 | uses it one way see they 're gon na make up a dictionary of how many different expr er interpretations of a word |
| 20 | The son of Topsider did make up a lot of ground in the closing stages , but by then it was far too late . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Perhaps we could make up a party . |
| 23 | So we thought we might make up a party from the parish and go to Rome . ’ |
| 24 | Why not make up a party ? |
| 25 | That 's what I meant about the meta-metal , if you took it back to metal you could n't make up a page like your upper and lower case with a big R , unless you spent three years chiselling and fitting the thing , but somehow it looks as if it ought to have been possible to have done it in metal because that 's where it took its springboard from . |
| 26 | And the man who made his money out of glass lenses invited the finest craftsmen in Britain to design and make up a series of stained glass windows . |
| 27 | But these are isolated groups which do not make up a force . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Weeks fifteen to twenty one is subject specific and all the details that have to come in and make up a record of achievement . |