Example sentences of "they [vb past] make [adv] [art] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Though they failed to make up a similar deficit against Essex on day two , losing 5–4 , their two doubles victories kept up their tally of rubbers going into the final day .
2 He did n't know why he kept them really , except that they helped to make up the number on the shelves .
3 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 .
4 Backbenchers mostly made the same points that they had made over a year earlier .
5 The ESC , however , threatened to stay away from the Civic in future if they had to make up the lost revenue .
  Next page