Example sentences of "[conj] make up [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the Goods sit in Kelly 's bedroom surrounded by the bits and pieces that made up her world , Mike picks up her diary . |
| 2 | His eyes roved her features , as if he was recalling every item of the lines and planes that made up her face . |
| 3 | In the quiet of the dawn , the young platoon commanders and their sergeants walked around the four vehicLes that made up their command , to check their soldiers and their equipment . |
| 4 | Through its low branches I had a latticed view of the buildings that made up my home . |
| 5 | Much has been written about Griffith and his contribution to the movies but the ingredients that made up his genius have never been better identified than in the review Heywood Broun wrote of Intolerance when it appeared in 1916 . |
| 6 | She did a series of sketches , trying to capture all his moods , thinking that , though they were n't very professional , they were to her , because she could see in every one of them all those complicated , aggravating , irresistible facets that made up his personality . |
| 7 | Even the particles that made up his body would not survive . |
| 8 | When individuals , through socialisation , accept the rules and expectations of their society that make up its culture and use them to determine how they should act , we say they have internalised society 's cultural rules . |
| 9 | In Scotland they become territorial on an area of estuary mud from which they filter the small invertebrates that make up their diet . |
| 10 | You will be semi-detached from the world around you for a wee while Wednesday and all the people and places that make up your life will take on a shadowy irrelevance until you come to terms with your own innermost thoughts and feelings . |
| 11 | Most of the components that make up your computer are delicate and do n't take too kindly to being taken apart . |
| 12 | However , there is a sense in which the particles that make up your body will carry on into another universe . |
| 13 | It should be self-evident , therefore , that where individual behaviour can be so extensively influenced by conformity to the standards of the social groups that make up our community and its social strata , then there will be major implications for the marketer . |
| 14 | This is a great achievement on the part of all the company 's work force , and of not only those who work in Barrow but those employed in the other elements that make up our Trident system . |
| 15 | The whole variety of experience that makes up our worship life . |
| 16 | If ( and hopefully when ) you do finally quit , it may create more of a problem than if you gird your mental loins at the outset and make up your mind to do it first and foremost . |
| 17 | In the second case a woman asking questions about her leg ulcer was told , ‘ Look , dear , you go away and make up your mind what you want done , and then we might be able to help you . ’ |
| 18 | Miss Dunstable surveyed this evidence of — to her mind — most proper domestic industry , from a hundred yards away , on the footpath to her favourite walk , and made up her mind on the side of tolerance . |
| 19 | ‘ She 'll look as alive as you or me , once we 've packed her and made up her face , ’ the embalmer reassured him again . |
| 20 | Baldwin contemplated all this at Aix , and made up his mind both to go for protection and to put at risk the first independent Conservative majority for two decades . |
| 21 | How long can you still live with her in the same house while making up your mind ? |
| 22 | The chance that Britain would work with the French on the new air-launched nuclear missile they have developed is on again , after Mrs Thatcher had all but made up her mind to buy American . |
| 23 | Rémy of Pertuis had as good as made up his mind to leave that day , but the arrival of the earl of Leicester caused him to think again , and countermand his orders to Bénezet and Daalny to begin packing . |
| 24 | The council will take a number of factors into account when making up its mind whether to give a development the go-ahead . |
| 25 | He appraised her slowly , then nodded , as though making up his mind . |