Example sentences of "make [adv prt] with [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any lack of elegance in the prose is made up with the gripping action . |
| 2 | The body louse may lay its eggs in clothing or bedding , while the head louse , like the crab louse , cements its eggs on to hairs forming ‘ nits ’ , which are the size of a pin-head and can just be made out with the naked eye . |
| 3 | She was close to her home in Iona street when the man threatened her with a handgun , and then made off with a small sum of money . |
| 4 | The latest raid came on Thursday night when thieves made off with a substantial amount of money from the dispensing machine at Lloyds Bank in Skinnergate , Darlington . |
| 5 | Doreen Johnson , warden at the Dalkeith House old folks complex said villains who made off with a large whisky bottle filled with coins were the lowest of the low . |
| 6 | He made off with an undisclosed amount of cash . |
| 7 | The robbers described as Afro- Caribbean made off with an unspecified amount in cash and jewels . |
| 8 | I 'd have thought any normal thief would make off with the whole bag . |
| 9 | The youngest of whom , she discovered , was only six weeks old , and was brought from the bedroom in an elderly bassinet to be fed , not mother 's milk , but some patent milk powder made up with the dubious water from the outside tap . |
| 10 | If there is make up on from the first erm removal , then you could then take off the make up with the first application and then go over twice more , so it would be three times if you 've got quite a lot of base or foundation on . |
| 11 | The Keraing had told us that in the 1950s a military scouting party from Makassar had angered the village by entering the caves with special equipment and making off with a good deal of valuable porcelain — indicating it had also been used as a burial-chamber by early visiting Chinese mariners . |
| 12 | There had also been recent newspaper reports of Bugis prahus putting into the atolls east of Celebes , burning the villages to the ground , and making off with the whole year 's harvest of copra the oil-bearing coconut husks — which was the inhabitants ' sole source of income . |
| 13 | We have him bang to rights on the kiosk heist and Special Forces caught him redhanded holding up the auction room and trying to make off with a green canvas portmanteau . ’ |
| 14 | It was lads from Garforth who stole the 1829 pole , but a group from Aberford managed to make off with the top half in 1907 . |