Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] make [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 The smaller Gulf states had already decided that , under threat from their ex-champion Iraq , they should sensibly make up with their ex-enemy Iran .
2 But this shows only that International Relations has become an American dominated discipline , and readers should firmly make up their own minds about the best way to understand and explain the international scene .
3 But if you are charged a few pounds , you 'll soon make up the difference once you 're filling up with cheaper , lead-free petrol .
4 At that point he becomes marginally important to my future , and I might just make out a client sheet for him .
5 I have quoted this passage in full , not because I think it is particularly inspired or even well-written , but because it is the nearest attempt I have come across to suggest some of the subjective , hidden meanings that might well make up a performer 's luggage when he expresses himself on stage .
6 About a hundred and fifty yards away I could just make out three figures crossing at the corner of the field and approaching the road in our direction .
7 ‘ AT THE top of Wears Hill we could just make out a signpost , pointing inland to Ashley Chase .
8 As he ran through the list , he could just make out the wording of the certificate over the mantelpiece : ‘ Ancient Guild of Foresters ’ .
9 Since he could just make out where he was going , he decided not to use the front light , which in any case would be bound to draw attention to him .
10 Looking towards the middle of the room he could just make out the hulk of the engine , even more dense than the surrounding dark .
11 If he squinted his eyes , he could just make out the greyness of the roof between the trees and here and there the stony finger of a chimney-stack .
12 Through the middle kitchen window he could just make out the open gate , the wooden ramp covering the steps and the first huge saddle-back sow ambling down into the yard .
13 The drop down to half-moon Rhossili Bay below me was almost sheer , and the sea was striped with shimmering blue and white as endlessly long parallel lines of surf moved in slow motion towards the expanse of sand , on which I could just make out a few figures as tiny specks .
14 The dirty chipped name plate was difficult to read but he could just make out the word Nettles on it .
15 He could just make out the chicken .
16 I could just make out the figure of a boy , running from the house on the right , who was joined by a group of people from the other .
17 He could just make out the name in spite of the peeling paint .
18 I could just make out a figure wheeling a bicycle up the drive .
19 As he gazed out , down the enormous length of the ship , he could just make out the dark outline against the lighter sea , and the rectangular shapes of the deck-covered containers .
20 In the semi-darkness , Delaney could just make out the Russian 's face .
21 He could just make out the sand dunes now , a blond strip on the far side of the lake , a good ten miles away .
22 He could just make out the great empty arch of the east window and beyond it the shimmer of the North Sea while above , seeming to move through and over it like a censer , swung the smudged yellow disc of the moon .
23 Willie could just make out , in all the speed of their walking , the wild hedgerows flashing in low green lines beside him .
24 He could just make out the two rows of cottages and the fields beyond them .
25 Straining his eyes , he could just make out the two boxes which were stacked in the far corner of the room and a picture frame which was propped up against them .
26 As they drew nearer John could just make out a plate on which the number 173 was discernible .
27 The smoke enveloped the beast completely , and yet through the smoke , as they got very close , Little Billy could just make out the enormous black shadow of some hairy monster .
28 On the wall behind the plant she could just make out irregular painted spirals of pale gold .
29 Behind us we could just make out the glimmer of lamplight from the tiny hotel on Lake Pehoe , where we should be dining on river trout , bife chorizo and good Chilean pinot noir before the night was out .
30 I could just make out the spot he indicated .
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