Example sentences of "[verb] make [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pupils can enjoy making up nonsense sentences like " For goodness sake , put the table into the teapot ! " or " The house looked up and ran away . " |
| 2 | The working was booked to stop at Colwyn Bay , Llandudno Junction and Llandudno , and worked from block to block until Muspratt 's Sidings when it took the Down Fast line and having got clear signals , proceeded to try to make up time . |
| 3 | With 20 seconds left , he zings in a series of eight jabs and a razor of a right , all designed to make only surface contact , but to confirm that he is still Ali . |
| 4 | Soon after Manfred and Gloria had gone , when I was hurrying to make up time , a second German couple jumped out of another Land Rover . |
| 5 | Hurrying to make up time , Manville had cut himself shaving , and the cluttered bathroom medicine cabinet had stubbornly refused to yield up the secret whereabouts of the styptic pencil . |
| 6 | As his eyes slowly became accustomed to the half-light , he began to make out row upon row of brown tents stretching as far as the eye could see . |
| 7 | Edward indicated that he was not committed to Balliol 's cause , and the arrival of Balliol at Carlisle as a fugitive must have made both king and parliament have second thoughts about his value as an ally . |
| 8 | Some observers have suggested that the decline of the village as the main social unit in Japan has produced a greater heterogeneity in the smaller groups which go to make up society as a whole . |
| 9 | We can recognise a ‘ dull load ’ as a sign of indigestion through its being located in the stomach , since previous stomach-located ‘ dull loads ’ have occurred in conjunction with the other things which go to make up indigestion . |
| 10 | Well , he did there in , in the various agreements there , there were scheduling anomalies which erm , if they I ca n't recall the exact wording now but if they er , their average wage , working week was between forty two and forty four hours , they had to get make up pay and all that sort of thing . |
| 11 | He should never have started making up stuff about Everett Maltby . |
| 12 | Yeah he tries to make up crap jokes . |
| 13 | Robert had earlier won the 250cc race but in the superbike he was forced to make up ground after a bad start and was never able to get to grips with the leader . |
| 14 | Chile had already opened exploratory free trade talks with Venezuela [ see p. 37774 ] , but had declined to join the projected Mercosur South American common market [ see p. 38096 ] until Brazil and Argentina had made further progress on economic reform . |
| 15 | ‘ He is trying to make up time . ’ |
| 16 | Routers soon pay for themselves if you intend to make up mortise and tenon or other joints . |
| 17 | As a founder member of Opportunity 2000 — The Business in the Community initiative to encourage women in their careers — we have made further progress . |
| 18 | ‘ We 're so boring that they have to make up stuff about us . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Well , because we have to make up time to Denver , and we ca n't do that with stuff like that in the car . |