Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [modal v] make [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps you ought to make up a party with your parents , ’ Isobel said dutifully . |
| 2 | She was tired of kneeling , listening to their voices droning on : ‘ Our Father who art in heaven , hallowed be Thy name ’ , and ‘ Hail Mary , full of grace ’ , which was all she could make out of the second bit , because what followed was just a mumble . |
| 3 | Perhaps we could make up a party . |
| 4 | In a prefatory motto for the book he quotes from Freud to the effect that ‘ perhaps we must make up our minds to the idea that altogether it is not possible for the claims of the sexual instincts to be reconciled with the demands of culture . ’ |
| 5 | Ramsay , who found himself at the head of nearly a thousand men of Lothian , largely Lindsays — whose chief , Sir David , Keeper of Edinburgh Castle , was sick and so not present — Setons , Hepburns , Sinclairs , Keiths and other lesser clans , as well as his own men , offered to ride fast for the Borderland , to join Scott of Rankilburn whom Douglas had alerted to watch Dunbar ; together they would make up a force large enough to give that Earl pause . |
| 6 | And pay her back so it 'll make up the up to one thirty . |
| 7 | Every day I lay there and repeated an exercise of counting how many branches on the tree outside I could make out . |
| 8 | Gradually , almost imperceptibly , the light strengthened and soon he could make out the shape of boats , the mexeflote causeway and the patchwork of woods and fields on the island . |
| 9 | Gradually we could make out the shaking fronds of the trees , the thick herbs at the side of the path . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , there have been no social events this year hopefully we can make up for this in nineteen ninety four . |
| 11 | But as far I could make out she had n't been outside , at least not in the garden where you 'd expect her to go . |
| 12 | Perhaps now she could make up for her crime against society . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Then I must make up for my error . ’ |
| 15 | But she has no experience so I do n't know how she 'll make out . ’ |
| 16 | Okay that 's how you could make up twelve coins one set of twelve . |
| 17 | ‘ I think we should be given lessons on that and then we could make up our minds about whether we are being used by a boy seeing how far he can go , or whether the boy is really interested in us . |
| 18 | I urge those on both Front Benches to reflect on how they can make up for that democratic lack . |
| 19 | Faintly I could make out , because I knew they should be there , the sculpted masks of Tragedy and Comedy above the central doorway . |