Example sentences of "they [vb mod] make [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the spaciousness of a large chamber they may make only four or five a second , but as they approach the rock walls and need to know exactly where they are in order not to crash into them , they increase the speed of the clicks until they are emitting as many as twenty a second and the sound becomes , to our ears , an almost continuous rattle . |
| 2 | But he was close about himself : he knew that where two or three are gathered together … what they do n't know , they 'll make up . |
| 3 | If you are n't find an old fashioned TV repair shop and ask them if they 'll make up the leads for you . |
| 4 | They 'll make up some |
| 5 | You know they 'll make up with friends you know , what family they 're not asking wo n't they ? |
| 6 | They 'll either hint I was downright dishonest to sign the contract in the first place or they 'll make out I ca n't even spell my own name . |
| 7 | Sonia : Seriously right , if you go to another white teacher or somebody , and tell them that they 're being prejudiced against you , they 'll make out it 's not , that it 's another reason . |
| 8 | They might make quite a thing of it . |
| 9 | ‘ There are stars I have simply not brought to Highbury because they have been more concerned with the money they could make rather than what they could achieve for Arsenal . ’ |
| 10 | Michael Howard , the employment secretary , was left to make the best of this glum news by telling the TECs ' directors — 1,200 of them , by December 1990 — that they could make up for a shortfall in cash from the Treasury by raising money from the private sector . |
| 11 | They could make up the England rugby pack . ’ |
| 12 | Their vision was by now more adapted to the darkness , and silhouetted against the glow of the fires , they could make out the black bulk of the castle . |
| 13 | They could make out stands of wooden shelving in the gloom , the nearest cheeses a luminous white , the furthest ones matured to a dark , oily yellow . |
| 14 | The pain steadily increased in force , blotting out the fires on the hill above the melon beds , increasing the darkness until they could make out nothing in the compound below , and driving them back from the streaming verandah . |
| 15 | If they strained their eyes they could make out the clusters of houses and farmyards that were Suardal to the north , the pencil-thin bars of smoke already rising from them and the meagre herds moving across the open country like ants . |
| 16 | Over on the other side they could make out the chimney of the paper works among rising woods . |
| 17 | Ramsay , who found himself at the head of nearly a thousand men of Lothian , largely Lindsays — whose chief , Sir David , Keeper of Edinburgh Castle , was sick and so not present — Setons , Hepburns , Sinclairs , Keiths and other lesser clans , as well as his own men , offered to ride fast for the Borderland , to join Scott of Rankilburn whom Douglas had alerted to watch Dunbar ; together they would make up a force large enough to give that Earl pause . |
| 18 | Silvia had made a hand-on-heart promise that they would make up all their lost hours this evening and this coming Monday , and Ronni in turn had promised to give her one more chance . |
| 19 | He still had to find room for two more , so he decided to banish the two foolish , pretty O'Hanlons from their billiard-table , sensing that they would make least fuss . |
| 20 | They will make up Newbridge 's Vivid line of Asynchronous Transfer Mode products , and the report says that the range is to include a 10Base-T Ethernet hub with an Asynchronous Transfer Mode interface , another 10Base-T hub with local Asynchronous Transfer Mode switching capabilities , and a high-end Asynchronous Transfer Mode local network hub which incorporates integral routing . |
| 21 | When the Windsor herd arrives in late July they will make up the largest group of African elephants in the country . |
| 22 | However , matters can be arranged so that the judgements required of human observers are only those which they can make reliably and accurately . |
| 23 | Scientists have discovered several polymer films that they can make either neutral or charged . |
| 24 | Jane Bywaters , who has been responsible for much of the exhibition , said : ‘ We need to give people information so that they can make up their own minds about food and not be dictated to by the media and media events . ’ |
| 25 | Eggs are the perfect protein , containing all eight essential amino acids , so they can make up for any deficiency that may be caused elsewhere . |
| 26 | They can make up what they want . ’ |
| 27 | I urge those on both Front Benches to reflect on how they can make up for that democratic lack . |
| 28 | They can make up to 141 foraging trips a day , comparing favourably with commercial honey bees , which can manage 150 . |
| 29 | I think people can do as they please and they can make up their own minds but I just do n't think that all , everyone else should be like advertising the fact |
| 30 | The urban poor also find they can make more in one night treading coca leaves in makeshift drug factories in the jungle than an office employee earns in a month in the city . |