Example sentences of "[verb] make [adv prt] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Traditionally , literary criticism — which generally has supported the conservative idea of the period as a time of disruption and rebellion has made out a case for the poem 's balanced quality in praising both Cromwell and Charles I. Marvell may have later been an employee of Cromwell 's Latin Secretariat , but his poem shows an independent impartiality which avoids political commitment . |
| 2 | Hovering in the doorway , Wilson heard Mr Browning plead with her to say something to him and then she listened while he tried to make out a case for the French Emperor , to argue this might not be the betrayal it seemed , and that all hope might not be lost . |
| 3 | She she has to make out a form , with erm what was happening at the time and everything . |
| 4 | Get cook to make up a tray of coffee will you ? ’ |
| 5 | Given the vast symbolic and metaphorical potential of the natural world , it is obvious , says Lévi-Strauss , that the same characteristics could be given different meaning and that different characteristics could be selected to make up a set . |
| 6 | So we were going to make up a sport to see what he said , and in Spain they play a game called callots . |
| 7 | When I use a well-known television series as a starting point I start by talking to the children about what we 're going to do and the way we 're going to work : " We 're going to make up a play together . |
| 8 | I told Mum I was going to make up a quarrel with Shirnette . |
| 9 | The collection could consist entirely of culinary kinds ; the health-giving species can lead to a very large collection , as four , five or six different plants may be needed to make up a prescription . |
| 10 | But desperation leads people into rushed decisions when one or two people are urgently needed to make up a complement of tenants for a specific property . |
| 11 | When Sir Keith Joseph approved the rebuilding of St Augustine 's School , officers of the county council were still attempting to make out a case for the sale of the site based on their assessment of demand for places . |
| 12 | The Church of Scotland had agreed to make up a proportion of the shortfall equal to the proportion of its members present . |
| 13 | And what 's inspiring about a treatise on who can own brown rice stores and how many people it takes to make up a windmill construction co-operative ? |
| 14 | I left my blanket roll by the door and went around behind the counter and started making out a passenger list and tickets . |
| 15 | So set yourself the task of suggesting a simple argument or answer and then you can try to make out a case for it . |
| 16 | These visitors , about 42 per cent from overseas , also divide into three categories : those who book far in advance , whose who gain starting times in the daily ballot and the ‘ casuals ’ who haphazardly turn up on the off-chance of being asked to make up a foursome . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , it is possible to describe some of the typical components that go to make up a paradigm . |
| 20 | Figure 11.4 shows the complicated web of paper transfers that go to make up a transaction . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | The son of Topsider did make up a lot of ground in the closing stages , but by then it was far too late . |
| 24 | Bobby expects to make up a party from the works and we shall come along for an hour or two . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ When I 've made up a lie I can believe in , ’ came the reply . |
| 26 | Jim and Tina had made up a foursome with Jean Hay and Bruce Mackenzie . |
| 27 | Cross-examined by Bert Kerrigan , QC , for Murray , Mr Mackie denied that he had made up a pack of lies because he held a grudge against his former boss . |
| 28 | I had made up a sort of flattened octopus-like creature , with electrically lit eyes , which we stretched out onto a frame and placed in a shallow trough of water so that it was only just submerged . |
| 29 | ‘ Pickles ran into some friends and was trying to make up a party to go dancing tonight . |
| 30 | ‘ Especially , ’ Angelica said , ‘ when you 're trying to make out a form for somebody whom you know wo n't appear anywhere in the records . ’ |