Example sentences of "[verb] make up [noun] " 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 | ‘ A lot of the boys would n't believe John , he 'd made up stories before , but all the girls believed me . |
| 4 | You ask me she 's got make up loads of excuses . |
| 5 | Although this 20 per cent is intended for teaching and research , much of it is used to make up deficits in general health-care budgets . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Cos it 's pointless keep making up loads of paints when other people have already mixed the colour up . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | To help you work our your own menus , here are summaries of the salads and the foods that go to make up breakfasts and snacks . |
| 12 | The pupils , did n't even bother to make up Charles and Diana 's passionless platter . |
| 13 | A further six HN Units will go to make up awards in the second group , HNCs . |
| 14 | I mean making up conversations all over the place . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Green must also have been helped by the growing availability of good water colour paints as only towards the end of the 18th century could amateurs easily obtain made up colours . |
| 17 | He should never have started making up stuff about Everett Maltby . |
| 18 | And no , before either of you start making up theories , I did n't take him into the bedroom . |
| 19 | Yeah he tries to make up crap jokes . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But they 've made up stories about Ships coming from other worlds . ’ |
| 22 | Yes and on the whole recently we 've had prisoners who been imprison for sort of two or three years , we 've , we 've made up petitions , we 've sent postcards and we 've , we 've written letters and er they 've been released in reasonably short space of time , but then mostly the prisoners which , who have n't had a very long sentence , unlike the one I mentioned on the way here tonight , have the Russian who had been in thirty years |
| 23 | She reached up , and kissing him fiercely on the lips , whispered a rhyme she had made up years before : " Tristram Pascoe , Tristram Pascoe , never , never let your lass go ! " — and when they had hugged , she watched him climb nimbly over the wall and heard him jump down into the hayfield on the other side . |
| 24 | ‘ He is trying to make up time . ’ |
| 25 | The consequence of having such large schools with small protestant catchment areas was that those funded from the state had to make up numbers by accepting non-protestants . |
| 26 | Routers soon pay for themselves if you intend to make up mortise and tenon or other joints . |
| 27 | I have been present at occasions of celebration when poets and singers — there is often no distinction since poems tend to be sung or chanted — have made up verses on the spot and provided a seemingly endless number of embellishments . |
| 28 | These include making up boxes and tubs , and suggesting suitable garden planting plans . |
| 29 | ‘ We 're so boring that they have to make up stuff about us . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Well , because we have to make up time to Denver , and we ca n't do that with stuff like that in the car . |