Example sentences of "make [adv prt] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These she had made up to her exact requirements , with precisely the right number of holes , by an exclusive shop in Knightsbridge . |
| 2 | It had been a couple of days before it dawned on him : they were the full-size versions of the houses and station buildings he and his father had made up for their never-quite-finished model railway layout . |
| 3 | But much more can be made out of its well-recognised movements . |
| 4 | So it 's often sheer neglect on the part of the home owner that allows the thief to gain entry , and make off with your treasured possessions . |
| 5 | When Dad hires Shelly DeVoto ( Jamie Lee Curtis ) to do make up on his dead clients and starts to fancy her , Vada wonders where she stands in her father 's affections . |
| 6 | The Mourne boss is determined that his side will make up for their semi-final defeat by Derry last year but refuses to embrace this as an additional spur in his motivating process . |
| 7 | I 'll be happy if we can make up for our late start by mid-season . ’ |
| 8 | The smaller Gulf states had already decided that , under threat from their ex-champion Iraq , they should sensibly make up with their ex-enemy Iran . |
| 9 | In this chapter Lewis Carroll uses a word which is n't in the English dictionary , he uses a word he made up with his vivid imagination — ‘ Contrariwise ’ which means to be contrary . |
| 10 | We were watching the tufted ducks which made up for their late appearance this season by arriving in more than usual strength . |
| 11 | When he smiled , the warmth in his eyes , so stunning for being so unexpected , made up for his cranky disposition , his overwhelming pomposity . |
| 12 | Such remarks made up for our embarrassing waits . |
| 13 | Facts and figures , they argue , should replace the soothing refrain that ‘ it is only a matter of time ’ before women lawyers make up on their male counterparts . |
| 14 | None of the group is especially common as fossils , but they make up for their general rarity by their interest . |
| 15 | It was to salve her conscience , she thought , and make up for her obsessional preoccupation with Nick Frazer . |
| 16 | I had an MXR Distortion Plus and an MXR Blue Box ( a prehistoric harmonizer making up for its dodgy tracking with an intriguing wobbly sound and some rather excellent white noise — Ed ) . |
| 17 | For the FA Cup Finalists to go down Sunderland would have to lose their last three matches , with Oxford winning their final game at Tranmere and making up for their inferior goal difference , Plymouth and Newcastle also winning , and Grimsby getting at least a draw . |
| 18 | For a long time KFW has been promoting in particular the small and medium scale sector of the economy , i.e. it grants loans at favourable interest rates to small and medium sized enterprises to make up for their specific financing disadvantages … |
| 19 | The roar from that great thoroughfare was deafening : traders , merchants and apprentices shouted themselves hoarse as they tried to make up for their previous loss of trade . |
| 20 | And Mike ; always so good to her , teasing her , making her feel special , as though he had tried to make up for her real father 's dying when she was a baby ; not wanting her to feel left out when Martin had been born . |
| 21 | The mathematics master obviously intended to make up for his long silence during the earlier part of the term . |
| 22 | Trying to make up for his misspent youth . |
| 23 | I travelled back to Athens , partly in order to make up for my ignominious run in the European Indoor there in 1985 . |
| 24 | Tell you what , I 'll buy you a cup of coffee to make up for my bad temper before . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It makes up for his small penis , ’ points out Rob . |
| 26 | ‘ It makes up for his small penis , ’ points out Rob . |
| 27 | The volume is really little more than a set of expanded notes ; but what it lacks in inspiration on that score , it more than makes up by its sheer usefulness , not least as an examination primer . |