Example sentences of "up [conj] make a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd picked Nolan up and made a fool of him . |
| 2 | You may have locked someone up and made a mistake . |
| 3 | One morning I woke up and made a plan . |
| 4 | She got up and made a cup of tea , sitting by her bed to drink it , her face pale and set . |
| 5 | Inside , he ‘ used to make all the mince pies for Christmas ’ , peel the potatoes for Sunday lunch , and every morning make breakfast : ‘ you never had to get up and make a cup of tea of a morning , he 'd get up . |
| 6 | Erm , but an awful lot of people who would go up and make a fuss may not get this , the same level of services erm , somebody who went up there and was nice . |
| 7 | Wilkie — a genius — effortless Firsts — but perhaps still ready to give up and make a career in the theatre . |
| 8 | In desperation I said to Noel Buttigieg-Scicluna , Secretary of the Maltese Nationalist Party , ‘ Noel , please go up and make a speech until we can find Eddie . ’ |