Example sentences of "[pers pn] make up a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I 've had them make up a bed for you .
2 The NCT sessions encouraged everyone to ask ‘ daft ’ questions — the sort that do not seem daft if you do not know the answers — like how do I make up a nappy , how many sterilising tablets do I use for the bottles and what should we buy before the baby is born ?
3 So I made up a couple of bottles for them and they said " Oh . " .
4 Then , as another kind of exorcism , I made up a list of :
5 ‘ I 'd been getting records on tick from Billy for ages , ’ explains Havanna 's Tony Scott , ‘ so I said to him ‘ If I make up a record , would you square up the bill ? ’
6 I make up a bath of dye to treat the sarkandas before cutting the reed to the required lengths .
7 She made up a poem for the diamond diamond jubilee .
8 In the morning , she made up a cot for Oreste , placing on the pillow a small felt rabbit Pilade had once loved .
9 In the year 18 — you made up a mixture of chemical powders for Doctor Henry Jekyll .
10 in the interview right , we made up a song about it
11 We made up a bed on the floor and we took turns to sleep in the bed itself .
12 We make up a story to cover the facts we do n't know or ca n't accept ; we keep a few true facts and spin a new story round them .
13 And between them they make up a total of thirty-eight different characters .
14 Therefore a physical interpretation of vector components is that they make up a tangent .
15 They make up a group of institutions which has been described as the ‘ third force ’ in higher education , alongside the universities and polytechnics , and are known variously as colleges of higher education , institutes of higher education , colleges of education or just plain colleges .
16 I told her to make up a list of the contents now for her deposition the next day as I had forgotten to mention much of what was in my bag .
17 Daphne had indeed introduced her to Guy , only a few weeks before , when Daphne had persuaded her to make up a party to see La Boheme at Covent Garden .
18 ‘ That 's me making up a story , of course .
19 So he made up a bed in the front of the byre there , and he was sixteen year in it .
20 He liked the Latin name so much that he made up a sort of rhyme about it and chanted this as he went upstairs :
21 With Jannie Breedt and the mercurial Francois Pienaar he makes up a back row that is ideally suited to the type of game South Africa will need to play to beat the best in the world .
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