Example sentences of "[vb base] make up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos it 's pointless keep making up loads of paints when other people have already mixed the colour up . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I mean making up conversations all over the place . |
| 6 | And no , before either of you start making up theories , I did n't take him into the bedroom . |
| 7 | But they 've made up stories about Ships coming from other worlds . ’ |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | Routers soon pay for themselves if you intend to make up mortise and tenon or other joints . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | These include making up boxes and tubs , and suggesting suitable garden planting plans . |
| 12 | ‘ We 're so boring that they have to make up stuff about us . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Well , because we have to make up time to Denver , and we ca n't do that with stuff like that in the car . |
| 14 | You have to make up words from the letters that they 've er but in that order . |