Example sentences of "make [adv prt] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Washington has not yet made up its collective mind about George Bush . |
| 2 | ‘ I can make up your undoubted losses ! ’ |
| 3 | He put little slips of paper in the entries that made up his fragile narrative or non-narrative . |
| 4 | But the disparate elements which made up his southern affinity were linked , both to each other and to the northern retinue , by the same bonds of ducal patronage and personal relationship which gave internal cohesion to the northern retinue itself . |
| 5 | But the disparate elements which made up his southern affinity were linked , both to each other and to the northern retinue , by the same bonds of ducal patronage and personal relationship which gave internal cohesion to the northern retinue itself . |
| 6 | Of the 16 funds that made up our Global Strategy umbrella fund when it was launched five years ago , no less than four have come first in their respective sectors over this period , according to Finstat . |
| 7 | Without a moment 's hesitation she jumped down from the platform of the bus , as the driver slammed on the brakes , swearing : ‘ Make up yer bleeding mind , for Gawd 's sake ! ’ |
| 8 | Real gravitons make up what classical physicists would call gravitational waves , which are very weak-and so difficult to detect that they have never yet been observed . |
| 9 | They do not claim that occupation is the same thing as social class , but rather that it is the best single indicator of all those aspects of a person that make up their social class position . |
| 10 | However , insofar as the theories that make up our scientific knowledge are fallible and incomplete , the guidance that theories offer as to what observations are relevant to some phenomenon under investigation may be misleading , and may result in some important factors being overlooked . |
| 11 | He says , oh he 'll make up his we er , same us as , make up his bloody mind but he 's no he 's not interested Kath . |
| 12 | Walk along a river , sit by the sea , stroll through the woods and start to analyse the components and blockages that make up your present existence . |
| 13 | List all the characteristics which make up your Inner Face — how do you perceive yourself ? |
| 14 | Also , make up your additional 15g or more of dietary fibre from the meals — so that your total daily intake of dietary fibre is , ideally , between 35g and 50g . |
| 15 | You must collect , sort and select all the facts , opinions , ideas , options and proposals which make up your particular message . |
| 16 | Make up you bloody mind ! |
| 17 | Having identified her mast , in a moment I could make out her whole shape . |
| 18 | Clad head-to-toe in black , she could be a mourner at a wake , but from her body language one can not quite make out her precise attitude towards the dear departed . |
| 19 | To soothe herself , she counted the roses on the wallpaper ; she could just make out their heavy , dark faces . |
| 20 | Dorcas pointed to the shadows at the far end of the shed , where she could just make out something big and indistinct . |
| 21 | The journalists from France 's national sporting daily L'Equipe picked the whole front five and all the threequarters , with two Scotsmen and two Frenchmen making up their imaginary side . |
| 22 | Two maids were making up our nuptial bed , |
| 23 | She offered to make over her full allowance of 28s.6d. per week from the Air Ministry to cover the cost of her stay in St. Peter 's and the cost of the ambulance ( ten shillings ) . |
| 24 | Moreover , a married woman can use her husband 's contribution record to make up her basic pension to the level she would have got as his dependant . |
| 25 | Coyle Plc at present manufactures ail the components that go to make up its finished products . |
| 26 | Well I 'd better , 'cos today — ’ in between massive mouthfuls of toast — ‘ I 've got to make up my tiny mind what I 'm going to do . |
| 27 | So we come back around the circle to the capital side of the balance of payments , and the operationally interesting question : for how long can we expect the world 's savers to make up our domestic shortage ? |
| 28 | Properties of the kind which go to make up our nominal essence of gold are divided by Locke into ‘ primary and original ’ and ‘ secondary ’ ( and also ‘ tertiary ’ ) . |
| 29 | Forty years on Marcel 's wife Ellen now makes up his appreciative audience . |
| 30 | Well you 'll see that in that apology Milton appears to be conscious of the very point that I am trying to make , that is to say it might be considered out of place in this prose work to speak of myself in direct factual terms , although a poet — a poet intending to write of things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme — a poet soaring in the high region of his fancies , with his garland and singing robes about him , in other words where we ca n't or are n't really invited to make out his individual identity very clearly because it is his role as poet that concerns us , there he clearly feels it would be proper . |