Example sentences of "make [adv prt] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our own interest in dunnocks was aroused several years ago by a chance comment , made over a cup of coffee . |
| 2 | ‘ You 've made up every word of it and you know it . |
| 3 | " No , my dear , you are just as tired as I am , and I shall rest presently in the dressing-room where I have made up a bed for myself . |
| 4 | Jim and Tina had made up a foursome with Jean Hay and Bruce Mackenzie . |
| 5 | Occasionally she went out with Diane from the neighbouring flat , and once made up a foursome with one of Diane 's boyfriends and another man . |
| 6 | The surface of the Earth is made up a number of plates , and these move relative to each other . |
| 7 | Cross-examined by Bert Kerrigan , QC , for Murray , Mr Mackie denied that he had made up a pack of lies because he held a grudge against his former boss . |
| 8 | I had made up a sort of flattened octopus-like creature , with electrically lit eyes , which we stretched out onto a frame and placed in a shallow trough of water so that it was only just submerged . |
| 9 | Trow Gill is dry , a grass slope rising and narrowing to a breach in the cliffs at the top , a passage through it being made up a tumble of boulders . |
| 10 | But Mr Stewart said : ‘ You are a liar and you have made up the story about the gun and the threats to kill . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | But if you 've made up the gain at all , then since it 's residential property , it 's exempt . |
| 14 | Traditionally , literary criticism — which generally has supported the conservative idea of the period as a time of disruption and rebellion has made out a case for the poem 's balanced quality in praising both Cromwell and Charles I. Marvell may have later been an employee of Cromwell 's Latin Secretariat , but his poem shows an independent impartiality which avoids political commitment . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Putting the light on would be too risky , but the curtains were drawn back and by now their eyes had become accustomed to a darkness in which could be made out the shapes of furniture and smaller objects , a darkness of monochrome and black spaces and faintly gleaming edges . |
| 17 | After she 'd made out the application for him she said , ‘ Can you manage if I leave you with it ? ’ |
| 18 | So , although it is possible to conceive of any event as an incarnation of the totality , insofar as it must itself make up a part of that totality in its determination , unlike the case of the boxing match , where we can define the overall entity ‘ boxing ’ , it still remains unproven that an overall entity , ‘ History ’ , can be said to exist at all . |
| 19 | I 'll find some sheets presently and you can make up a bed in the spare room . |
| 20 | I 'll make up a bed in one of the other rooms tonight . |
| 21 | But the yard one of the yard inspectors came to me and said , I wonder if you would make up a roster for the supervisors . |
| 22 | Erm I 'll make up a spreadsheet with twenty five or thirty blank columns , but with all the formulas in place |
| 23 | If you could make up a sentence with those . |
| 24 | ‘ But why in hell should the police make up a story about an accident ? ’ |
| 25 | This example was meant to illustrate the unexpected links that might make up a chain of natural interactions , but it is significant that no experimental work was done to test the idea . |
| 26 | You can also make up a book of spells and write spells on a piece of paper , or even a menu for witches ' stew . |
| 27 | uses it one way see they 're gon na make up a dictionary of how many different expr er interpretations of a word |
| 28 | The son of Topsider did make up a lot of ground in the closing stages , but by then it was far too late . |
| 29 | Each student can make up a package of tests to go for ; he may repeat those that he fails , without the social disaster of being kept down a year ; and he may make up a mix of practical and theoretical according to a plan worked out with his class teacher , and bearing in mind what he aims to do next . |
| 30 | So we thought we might make up a party from the parish and go to Rome . ’ |