Example sentences of "[vb base] make [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Get cook to make up a tray of coffee will you ? ’ |
| 2 | Many of the fragments which go to make up a scoria cone are individually big enough to be called ‘ blocks ’ or ‘ bombs ’ , according to the simple size classification . |
| 3 | Among the lexical units which go to make up a lexeme it is possible to distinguish some that are more basic , or central , and others that are less so . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , it is possible to describe some of the typical components that go to make up a paradigm . |
| 5 | Some of these rules are concerned with the different components which go to make up a traditional story — the kind of story which is orally handed down from generation to generation . |
| 6 | The assumption remains that most women will continue to be satisfied with conventional provision and that the others , the ‘ more liberated ’ perhaps , can choose women 's studies options which now exist amidst the many other courses that go to make up a centre programme . |
| 7 | Whatever the actual part you play in the business , or indeed , if you have to play all the parts that go to make up a funeral directing business , what is your attitude towards the job as a whole ? |
| 8 | Figure 11.4 shows the complicated web of paper transfers that go to make up a transaction . |
| 9 | They do make up a minor genre : the expedition into Darkest Britain , as trekked by George Orwell and a trickle of disciples up to , and including , the Belfast writer and photographer team of Robert McLiam Wilson and Donovan Wylie , who publish The Dispossessed ( Picador ) this week . |
| 10 | There are one or two passably funny lines which fail to make up a coherent , witty whole but are suddenly shot out from an invisible pea-shooter as if whipped from Ms Rudner 's stand-up routine . |
| 11 | ‘ When I 've made up a lie I can believe in , ’ came the reply . |
| 12 | Bonus payments tend to make up a larger share of earnings in Japan at about one-quarter of the total giving employers more room to adjust wages in line with changes in levels of economic activity . |
| 13 | " No , my dear , you are just as tired as I am , and I shall rest presently in the dressing-room where I have made up a bed for myself . |
| 14 | We have to make up a team though do n't we ? |
| 15 | the teachers are n't allowed to dictate the children , if they want erm to do something or make something they have to make up a plan of what they 're gon na do first |