Example sentences of "they [modal v] make [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | If you are n't find an old fashioned TV repair shop and ask them if they 'll make up the leads for you . |
2 | They could make up the England rugby pack . ’ |
3 | Their vision was by now more adapted to the darkness , and silhouetted against the glow of the fires , they could make out the black bulk of the castle . |
4 | If they strained their eyes they could make out the clusters of houses and farmyards that were Suardal to the north , the pencil-thin bars of smoke already rising from them and the meagre herds moving across the open country like ants . |
5 | Over on the other side they could make out the chimney of the paper works among rising woods . |
6 | Ramsay , who found himself at the head of nearly a thousand men of Lothian , largely Lindsays — whose chief , Sir David , Keeper of Edinburgh Castle , was sick and so not present — Setons , Hepburns , Sinclairs , Keiths and other lesser clans , as well as his own men , offered to ride fast for the Borderland , to join Scott of Rankilburn whom Douglas had alerted to watch Dunbar ; together they would make up a force large enough to give that Earl pause . |
7 | When the Windsor herd arrives in late July they will make up the largest group of African elephants in the country . |
8 | You concealed knowledge of a deserter , you actually helped him stay deserted , and They can make out a case for saying you still are . |