Example sentences of "[pers pn] made [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them made up the remnants of a tiny battery , source identified . |
| 2 | So 38×84″ was my conclusion and I made up the stretchers . |
| 3 | I made up the difference out of my own money . ’ |
| 4 | So I made up the rest and everyone liked it . |
| 5 | I twisted around and almost blinded myself by staring straight into the sun , but then , through the dizzying glare , I made out the long silhouette of a tall man who seemed , incongruously , to be dressed in a long , transparent dressing gown . |
| 6 | After hitching her cover more firmly round her shoulders she made up the smouldering fire and sat on the pouffe . |
| 7 | The accent sounded mid-European and as Lee became more accustomed to the steam she made out the face of the owner of the voice . |
| 8 | But as she made out the figure who stood darkly outlined against the blaze of the picture window 's light , she stopped abruptly short . |
| 9 | The bang came again but softer , and she made out the squeak of rusty hinges against the din of the stormy night . |
| 10 | Her fists gripped the armrests of the chair so tightly she made out the taut ligaments running from her wrists to her knuckles . |
| 11 | She made out the shape of Caro squatting in the armchair , rigidly still . |
| 12 | So you made up the rest ? |
| 13 | This quotes order/office : Chris Lloyd , to whom we made out the cheque accompanying our order . |
| 14 | There 's nothing like a good bed , ’ said Nessie O'Neil to her daughter Nellie as they made up the bed in the box bedroom at Ballytreabhair Farm . |
| 15 | The company claimed last night that Mr Onanuga and Mr Newton now agreed they made up the whole story of Mr Lamont 's visit . |
| 16 | Together they made up the Board of the Greencloth , named , like the Exchequer , from the cloth which covered their working table . |
| 17 | They made up the double bed in William and Kate 's room , which was the best room in the house , overlooking the back garden and mercifully free from images of death , destruction and eternal torment , which presumably meant that William had been kept out of it , at least so far as the decor was concerned . |
| 18 | The only certain starting point was that the opera would have a Swiss theme , in common with Cheltenham 's International Music Festival , of which the project was part.That aside , they made up the script as they went along . |
| 19 | ‘ We were a player short and he made up the numbers for us . ’ |
| 20 | When Kevin O'Reilly , who runs the only pharmacy in Ederney , returned to the province , he made up the product for one psoriasis victim . |
| 21 | She could hear Penry moving about upstairs as he made up the other bed . |
| 22 | He made out the high-backed chair to one side of the fire and sank into it , sitting tall and erect , careful not to crease his dinner jacket . |
| 23 | Carson hoped not , as he made out the shape of something like Liawski 's diaries over by the skirting board of the opposite wall . |
| 24 | He made out the black shape of another tunnel mouth . |
| 25 | Then he made out the thousands of tiny rings that studded the ceiling . |
| 26 | Undramatic in its effect and narrow in its scope , highly forgettable and often forgotten by historians , it made up the bulk of parliamentary business . |