Example sentences of "make up the word " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You just made up the word , ’ he tells me , as if that is forbidden .
2 Made up the words and music to a Christmas carol ?
3 ‘ I think you just made up the word . ’
4 The underlined letters of each country make up the word .
5 The term syntagmatic was attached by Saussure to the sequential or combinatory relationships that a given language system permits : the relationship between the three sounds , for instance , that make up the word ‘ tree ’ , or the syntactical relationship between the words ‘ the tree is green ’ , and so on .
6 They make up the words themselves , right
7 The players with the required letters then form a line to make up the word as fast as they can , and the team which does it the quickest gets a point .
8 PONCE : The bit that goes at the end of ‘ Res ’ to make up the word ‘ Response ’ .
9 It contains three- and four-letter word picture cards , and children have to make up the words using eight cubes with letters on each side .
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