Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] make [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have to say you ca n't do that I 'll make up a new game to play . |
| 2 | Erm I 'll make up a spreadsheet with twenty five or thirty blank columns , but with all the formulas in place |
| 3 | I 'll make up a bed in one of the other rooms tonight . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll make up the fire , Miss , and bring up some more coals — ’ |
| 5 | I could make up the detections that his presence lost me in a matter of days , and if he thinks he is going to see any wheeling and dealing when he is sitting in , well he 's naive ! |
| 6 | He was emerging in stately fashion from Wavebreaker 's companionway and , though I could see he was tall and lanky and had a ponytail of hair , I could make out no details of his face . |
| 7 | I could make out a couple of dozen large buildings . |
| 8 | I could make out a younger Conchis in the centre , wearing a straw hat and shorts , and there was one woman , a peasant-woman , though not Maria , because she was Maria 's age in the photo and it was plainly twenty or thirty years old . |
| 9 | I could make out a sort of close-fitting purple cap on the back of her head . |
| 10 | A few yards through the gloom I could make out the shape of a hedge and what appeared to be the entrance to a sunken road . |
| 11 | Most of it was double-dutch to me but I could make out the names entered in columns . |
| 12 | As he spoke I could make out the red roofs of the bungalows dotted among the green trees . |
| 13 | But as far as I could make out the Ambassador was away . |
| 14 | The fields shone a new green in the sun , and the air which for days had been hazy had been cleaned by the rain so that I could make out the shapes of sheep grazing near the old Coal Road above Cowgill as I walked down the lane . |
| 15 | After a couple of hundred yards the jungle thinned , and I could make out the towering white cliffs of the apartments building . |
| 16 | I could make out the tracery of blonde down on the edge of her cheek . |
| 17 | For , if I am the world ’ — we were heading down again , his nails digging into my flesh , I could make out the Eastern Mediterranean — ‘ then the world must be real . |
| 18 | The windows were obscured by curtains , but if I strained my eyes I thought I could make out the shadow of a figure standing behind them , never moving . |
| 19 | I could make out the Headmaster 's fancy brick chimneys , three shaped like corkscrews , three with brick diamond patterns , also the black branches of the elm tree shining wetly in the light of a precinct lamp-post . |
| 20 | The atmosphere was less turbid than I 'd expected from Edward 's description — a glowing , orange-red furnace of heat in which I could make out the shadowy profiles of two pots . |
| 21 | And as I changed tack , the harbour came into view round the headland , with the hill rising behind it , where pines grow in a sheltered spot , and then I could make out the white walls of my house through the binoculars . |
| 22 | I could make out the spot where my dad had stood that night . |
| 23 | From the front window I saw Jo climb into the BMW and as the interior light went on , I could make out the shape of the man driving . |
| 24 | I adored it — the glamour , the feeling of being in the hub of things which I love — I love clothes — I used to make up every day and make myself look nice and meet people … to me it was n't work , every minute of it was enjoyment … |
| 25 | And I used to make out the rosters . |
| 26 | ‘ As far as I can make out no one has yet said conclusively that this man is Greg Martin' , she argued . |
| 27 | The area had been given an unfair image by ‘ so far as I can make out a group of tearaways who are , at the moment , completely uncontrollable . |
| 28 | In so far as I can make out the policy of the Labour party , it is to give the business rate back to local authorities . |
| 29 | I expect to find rich pickings in the Ministry of Defence , with its townships , its airfields , its office blocks , its country houses , its sailors ' hostel in South Kensington and its acreage of land which would make up an English county . |
| 30 | Using our description above ( pp. 11 – 12 ) , construct a brief summary of the main points which would make up an instance of each of the following TYPES of argument about the book : |