Example sentences of "be make [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they give you an equation like this let's say the weight you 're making up a a load for a lorry and you 're putting erm crates on with car engines in , and the car engine weighs erm I du n no say it weighs a hundred kilograms . |
| 2 | Its the , its for the Oxford English Dictionary , its erm , what they 're doing is they 're making up a Dictionary for just using everyday collocation and they |
| 3 | Erm put a heading er , The test of David Copperfield , but you 're not doing the test you 're making up the test . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | No I think it could save lives , because it means that we have immediate access er to what 's going on and so on rare occasions , life and death decisions can be made down the telephone . |
| 6 | seems to be making up a bit . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , I get some expenses ; I 'll be making up the difference . ’ |
| 8 | We 'll be making up the lost hours tonight and on Monday . |
| 9 | Of course , I have been making up a lot of nonsense about machines getting in touch with one another . |
| 10 | If we are making up a play about the " Keeper of the Keys " , why do you think that neither of them can see ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Yes , go through the first five minutes , there were all different tasks , erm , at first , the girls were making up a basic jingle that would be about thirty seconds , and everyone else was looking through to see what words they should use . |
| 13 | So either you say there 's no general will or there is something like a general will , but it is not easily recognizable and for either reason you would want to be much more tolerant of the role minorities , either as a way of getting to the truth , or erm as a way of as it were making up the truth as you 're going along . |
| 14 | It was the random collisions melding the rocky substances , plus turbulent accretions , that were to make up the inner planets . |
| 15 | The surface of the Earth is made up a number of plates , and these move relative to each other . |
| 16 | All I will be doing [ at the Masters ] is making up the numbers . ’ |
| 17 | The announcement was made at the opening of the ‘ Spassenje ’ ( Rescue ) charity appeal , whose aim is to make up the shortfall of $15 million dollars still needed to complete the gallery 's reconstruction . |
| 18 | The first step is to make up the templates of all the shaped parts of the chair . |
| 19 | The parish schoolmasters are to make up the lists , and I am sure they will oblige . |
| 20 | A : so father was making up a big + sort of remembrance book — |
| 21 | and I 'm not entirely sure , Marcus did phone me and say , at one point , when he was making up the mailing list , he 's had three hundred copies of that made of the extract and he was kind of you know , sniffing around for who to send them |
| 22 | He was making out a case for the purchase of a .308 rifle as an extra weapon for deer hunting on the nearby estates . |
| 23 | He was making out the folder for the new case , meticulously transferring details from the police form to the file . |
| 24 | Radio Bangladesh quoted an official spokesman as saying on Aug. 10 that the independent Mecca-based Islamic body , Rabitah , had agreed to fund half the estimated US$50,000,000 cost of repatriation and rehousing , and Pakistan was to make up the rest . |