Example sentences of "make up [noun] on " in BNC.

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1 I have been present at occasions of celebration when poets and singers — there is often no distinction since poems tend to be sung or chanted — have made up verses on the spot and provided a seemingly endless number of embellishments .
2 It believes it can quickly make up ground on other Unix suppliers .
3 Bob cried as he wandered into the make up room on the first day .
4 Making up calendars on a different time-scheme from the solar .
5 Johnny Come Lately , the man to whom the Home Office refused a work permit in 1984 , was now fast making up ground on the inside .
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