Example sentences of "[vb past] make up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It helped make up the minds of waverers on the question of independence and it sent a signal about Serbian intentions to the outside world . |
| 2 | He did n't know why he kept them really , except that they helped to make up the number on the shelves . |
| 3 | The media helped to make up the minds of those who were newly interested in politics , or unusually interested in politics , interested in the election but not very interested in politics generally . |
| 4 | The groom said one of her horses died of colic or some such recently , from eating the wrong things , and the trainer did n't want any more accidents , so he 'd made up the feeds himself . ’ |
| 5 | Consigning me to hell seemed to make up the bulk of it , as I recall . |
| 6 | Write down the amount needed to make up the imprest . |
| 7 | While these various groups which went to make up the hierarchy were mutually interdependent , the basic principle on which society was organized was this formal system of ranking . |
| 8 | First , by drawing a distinction between what it regarded as the natural ( and therefore genuine ) core of religion and the complex of authorities , traditions , institutions and doctrines which went to make up the forms of Christianity , it implied that much , indeed very much of the latter was redundant and could safely be jettisoned . |
| 9 | Among the shields are those of Bohemia , Moravia , Silesia and Upper and Lower Lusatia , the states that went to make up the lands of Bohemia . |
| 10 | But it has to be said ( it has to be said ! ) wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , typing , smiled to himself , it has to be said , wrote Harsnet , that if every project is likely , if not certain , to result in the addition of a little more shit to the shit that already exists , there is also the possibility , faint it is true but real , of the unexpected , and this is what delay makes possible and what the onward rush of time , the ever-increasing acceleration of time , perpetually denies , and in addition to the possibility of the unexpected appearing in the coils of delay , in addition to that , it has to be said , he wrote , that whatever the project , however trivial , however exalted , it will always say more than its maker knows , and , if genuine ( I will return to genuine ) , something will emerge which is distinct from whatever came before , from whatever elements went to make up the whole , a tone , a voice , which is not the tone or the voice of the maker but something else , something which , in my more optimistic moments , or perhaps my less clear-sighted moments , seems to be distinct from the shit though inseparable from it , a tone , a style , which links it to its maker 's other genuine ( I will return to genuine ) productions . |
| 11 | When they did make up the T-shirts — as I backed down and did the separations — they got busted for sedition , which was an obscure act of whenever . |
| 12 | Miss Southworth said the woman had made up the story to friends and was then forced to go through with it , after complaints were made to the police . |
| 13 | However , the countess was later charged with perverting the course of justice after police became convinced she had made up the story . |
| 14 | ‘ I think so , ’ answered Mildred , though in fact she had made up the tale on the spur of the moment and it had somehow got rather out of hand . |
| 15 | So it did n't necessarily mean that you get a squad of riveters that would stayed together all the time , erm for various reasons , as I say they may have been , unfortunately some of them might even die and therefore you had to make up the squad again |
| 16 | Well , no , not really Ma'am , there were still charts to plot , and observations to send to Group , and instruments to read — and the unspoken implication , ever present , was that we were Grade 2 technicians , and if she wanted to make up the numbers on parade surely she could find a few more pen-pushers in nine-to-five jobs ? |