Example sentences of "[pers pn] make up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Bennet did not tell the conference was that he had designed special shrouds for the exhaust ports , and his Group engineer had them made up in the local village smithy . |
| 2 | ‘ And if you 're feeling tired , what about a dose or two of that tonic you make up for the patients ? ’ |
| 3 | She made up for the difficulty by striking their fingers with a ruler when they erred , especially when learning the piano . |
| 4 | Reminds me of the joke we made up at the time . |
| 5 | And they make up for a curtailed visual field by being able to rotate their heads through 180° . |
| 6 | He soon calmed down , then went across and fussed over her to make up for the rumpus , though it had n't bothered her in the slightest . |
| 7 | Oh he used to wash them and he had a proper , he had a case what he made up with a rack so as he could drop them all in . |
| 8 | He makes up for the boredom and emptiness of his own life by creating a dramatic emotional triangle for these puppets of his imagination , only to realise finally that his puppets are dancing to quite another tune . |