Example sentences of "make [pron] up to " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Like I said , ’ he explained , ‘ after those last months in Sweden , the Ruskis made me up to Captain .
2 Marks said : ‘ So they made you up to DI . ’
3 well you know , John Smith laid out his budget for the next , study for the , to cover the next two years and there , I mean there 's no intention to , to change it in the foreseeable future , I mean they 've laid it out for two years so that the basic rate stays the same , that the personal allowances are being increased so that this will take a lot of lower paid people out of tax and that coupled with the child benefit will make everybody up to about twenty two thousand a year better off , and then from there they 'll be a , a , a range of people who to it wo n't make much difference
4 So why 'd they make him up to a supervisor then ?
5 of ten , overnight , especially after a major row with her daughter , Marie 's mother , stricken with guilt , would swear to herself that she would make it up to Marie tomorrow : tomorrow , they would make a fresh start .
6 And as I 'm putting you out on your half-day I 'll make it up to you , there will be something extra by way of a thank you in your pay packet on Friday ’
7 finish I will make it up to you somehow I
8 She had never felt so wretched and she vowed that if Maggie recovered she would make it up to her somehow .
9 I 'll make it up to you . ’
10 ‘ You can say : ‘ I 'll make it up to you , Martin .
11 He 'd make it up to her this evening , take her somewhere really special .
12 Tell me how I can make it up to her . ’
13 I only want you to cos it 'll make it up to three .
14 ‘ We can make it up to each other now , ca n't we ? ’
15 Then , his mouth muffled against her sweet-smelling hair , he went on softly , ‘ Do n't be too disappointed ; I 'll make it up to you .
16 I said I 'd make it up to you , and when I make amends I do it thoroughly . ’
17 Well that should make it up to something .
18 Four pound a week more on the dole , cos we were having elected earnings and tax rebates on the dole and it and it made it up to eighteen pound .
19 I 'll come up tomorrow afternoon and make it up to you . ’
20 I 've enjoyed having you here , and in a small way it will sort of thank David , make it up to him by having his granddaughter to stay .
21 Widnes will open their defence of the Regal Trophy determined to wipe out the Headingley memory and make it up to the fans who travelled over to Yorkshire to support them in that disappointing performance .
22 It really went to show that God was good ; when you 'd paid for the things you did and you were really sorry , He gave you something good to make it up to you .
23 When I started to make it up to my horror I found the stripes did not match up front and back .
24 Bits of both Open Look and Motif are already in there — and some features will be handled as objects — although Cunningham admits it is unlikely to make it up to the XT intrinsics level , on top of which the various interface look and feels are created .
25 Ever since Julia had acknowledged that she needed Comfort 's help to make Anthony happy , Comfort had known that somehow she was going to have to make it up to Julia .
26 Erm I 'll turn that over erm right and I 'll say a number and you tell me what number you 'd have to add to it to make it up to ten .
27 They were all built round and round and up until they came to what they called the the e the part of the stack where they begin to make it up to the top , you see ?
28 ‘ And the least I can do , after the way your plans have been disrupted , is to try to make it up to you , in part — help you adapt a little more cheerfully to the circumstances . ’
29 Rainbow is going to want to make it up to me , ever so nicely . ’
30 At this moment she had the urge to fly back to the house , take her into her arms again and say ‘ I 'm going to make it up to you for all the love that I 've withheld , and for all the love you 've missed in your life . ’
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