Example sentences of "[verb] make up [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He should never have started making up stuff about Everett Maltby . |
| 9 | Yeah he tries to make up crap jokes . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ He is trying to make up time . ’ |
| 12 | Routers soon pay for themselves if you intend to make up mortise and tenon or other joints . |
| 13 | ‘ We 're so boring that they have to make up stuff about us . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Well , because we have to make up time to Denver , and we ca n't do that with stuff like that in the car . |