Example sentences of "make [adv prt] a [noun sg] [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 " 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 .
3 Jim and Tina had made up a foursome with Jean Hay and Bruce Mackenzie .
4 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 .
5 The surface of the Earth is made up a number of plates , and these move relative to each other .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 I 'll find some sheets presently and you can make up a bed in the spare room .
12 I 'll make up a bed in one of the other rooms tonight .
13 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 .
14 Erm I 'll make up a spreadsheet with twenty five or thirty blank columns , but with all the formulas in place
15 If you could make up a sentence with those .
16 ‘ But why in hell should the police make up a story about an accident ? ’
17 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 .
18 You can also make up a book of spells and write spells on a piece of paper , or even a menu for witches ' stew .
19 uses it one way see they 're gon na make up a dictionary of how many different expr er interpretations of a word
20 The son of Topsider did make up a lot of ground in the closing stages , but by then it was far too late .
21 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 .
22 So we thought we might make up a party from the parish and go to Rome . ’
23 That 's what I meant about the meta-metal , if you took it back to metal you could n't make up a page like your upper and lower case with a big R , unless you spent three years chiselling and fitting the thing , but somehow it looks as if it ought to have been possible to have done it in metal because that 's where it took its springboard from .
24 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 .
25 Weeks fifteen to twenty one is subject specific and all the details that have to come in and make up a record of achievement .
26 What I think is , there 's an Iron Age settlement at the top of the Grove , and I think someone found this woman 's skull there , and made up a story about it , the way people do . ’
27 The chairmen of these committees made up a Board of Ministers .
28 We made up a bed on the floor and we took turns to sleep in the bed itself .
29 She unpegged half a dozen , and made up a bed on a pile of linen .
30 When Cheddar was finally reached at about ten o'clock , no one would take them in , until an innkeeper had pity on them and made up a bed in the garret .
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