Example sentences of "make up [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ You 've made up every word of it and you know it . |
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 | But Mr Stewart said : ‘ You are a liar and you have made up the story about the gun and the threats to kill . ’ |
10 | 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 . |
11 | ‘ 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 . |
12 | But if you 've made up the gain at all , then since it 's residential property , it 's exempt . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | I 'll find some sheets presently and you can make up a bed in the spare room . |
15 | I 'll make up a bed in one of the other rooms tonight . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Erm I 'll make up a spreadsheet with twenty five or thirty blank columns , but with all the formulas in place |
18 | If you could make up a sentence with those . |
19 | ‘ But why in hell should the police make up a story about an accident ? ’ |
20 | 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 . |
21 | You can also make up a book of spells and write spells on a piece of paper , or even a menu for witches ' stew . |
22 | uses it one way see they 're gon na make up a dictionary of how many different expr er interpretations of a word |
23 | The son of Topsider did make up a lot of ground in the closing stages , but by then it was far too late . |
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 | So we thought we might make up a party from the parish and go to Rome . ’ |
26 | 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 . |
27 | And the man who made his money out of glass lenses invited the finest craftsmen in Britain to design and make up a series of stained glass windows . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | Weeks fifteen to twenty one is subject specific and all the details that have to come in and make up a record of achievement . |
30 | ‘ Right then , I 've called out enough instructions , now I 'll point to one of you and you must make up the instruction to be obeyed in just the same way as I have been doing . |