Example sentences of "[adv] make [adv prt] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On several tables draped with white oil-cloth reposed the battered and bloody remains of what was left of five Chinese bodies , and Fred Peavy , the mortician-embalmer , was apparently trying to piece them together to make up the contents of five plain wooden coffins . |
| 2 | Swore like a trooper under his breath as the bus swayed through the leafy lanes , saying he could no longer make out the landmarks , that he knew such and such a tree or house was in such and such a place , he 'd passed it so often in the bus , but now could barely see it . |
| 3 | The inspiring influence behind an automatic promotion triumph is determined Boro will not just make up the numbers in the top flight . |
| 4 | He could just make out the greens , the fairways and the dunes through which the three dozen surviving professionals would toil tomorrow in search of their own Golden Fleece . |
| 5 | Turning to the north-east , I could just make out the lines of the walls of Siri , the first completely new city to be built by the Muslim conquerors in the Delhi plains . |
| 6 | Down below , lost in the mist , he could just make out the holm-oaks and cypresses surrounding the Miletti property , a lugubrious baroque monstrosity built on a shoulder of land jutting out from the steep hillside . |
| 7 | From the tiny amount of light leaking around the door behind me , I could just make out the boards of the platform I stood on , and the first few feet of three narrow walkways emerging from the gloom , one cutting sharply away to my right , another straight ahead and a third branching left off this a few yards along . |
| 8 | Mothers were encouraged to give solids at a very early age and bottle feeding was predominant , with mothers incorrectly making up the feeds . |
| 9 | At the moment I am just making up the numbers . |
| 10 | It 's just to make up the numbers , really . |
| 11 | ‘ We are not talking about someone who is going to Barcelona just to make up the numbers . |
| 12 | Peering closely at the page , though , he thought he could still make out the shapes of the words , or enough shapes to allow a quick and hostile mind to piece together the whole sentence . |
| 13 | Although the sun glinted off its scales , Rincewind could clearly make out the outlines of the branches behind it . |
| 14 | The black comedy of the gallows scene in Verdi 's Un ballo in maschera is very Verdian and also very Karajanesque ; and though Karajan often made out the critics in Strauss 's Ein Heldenleben to be a nicer bunch than they probably are , I have yet to hear a more vitriolically gossipy performance of the ‘ Tritsch-Tratsch ’ Polka than the one Karajan conducted with the Philharmonia Orchestra in one of his last recordings with them in September 1960 . |
| 15 | All the rest of us are just here to make up the numbers . ’ |
| 16 | I ca n't quite make out the items on the list , however many times I go over it , or rather I ca n't make out the rooms on the staircase , or the stairs on my son 's forehead . |