Example sentences of "made [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No I think it could save lives , because it means that we have immediate access er to what 's going on and so on rare occasions , life and death decisions can be made down the telephone . |
| 2 | ‘ You just made up the word , ’ he tells me , as if that is forbidden . |
| 3 | The few small cottages which had once made up the village community had been bulldozed into the ground and their occupants moved into the grey and faceless high-rise apartment blocks of the new urban development . |
| 4 | Miss Southworth said the woman had made up the story to friends and was then forced to go through with it , after complaints were made to the police . |
| 5 | Mr Parker , 33 , denied that Joanna , 25 , could have made up the story . |
| 6 | But Mr Stewart said : ‘ You are a liar and you have made up the story about the gun and the threats to kill . ’ |
| 7 | However , the countess was later charged with perverting the course of justice after police became convinced she had made up the story . |
| 8 | Made up the words and music to a Christmas carol ? |
| 9 | ‘ I think so , ’ answered Mildred , though in fact she had made up the tale on the spur of the moment and it had somehow got rather out of hand . |
| 10 | Blanche may have made up the prowling . |
| 11 | The groom said one of her horses died of colic or some such recently , from eating the wrong things , and the trainer did n't want any more accidents , so he 'd made up the feeds himself . ’ |
| 12 | But there were evenings when the fire burned brightly and Aunt Louise sat in her winged chair , her skirt turned back to toast her knees ; while having made up the fire I knelt on the hearthrug , loath to leave the fierce heat of the flames . |
| 13 | But if you 've made up the gain at all , then since it 's residential property , it 's exempt . |
| 14 | Equity investors have made up the difference . |
| 15 | The black comedy of the gallows scene in Verdi 's Un ballo in maschera is very Verdian and also very Karajanesque ; and though Karajan often made out the critics in Strauss 's Ein Heldenleben to be a nicer bunch than they probably are , I have yet to hear a more vitriolically gossipy performance of the ‘ Tritsch-Tratsch ’ Polka than the one Karajan conducted with the Philharmonia Orchestra in one of his last recordings with them in September 1960 . |
| 16 | Putting the light on would be too risky , but the curtains were drawn back and by now their eyes had become accustomed to a darkness in which could be made out the shapes of furniture and smaller objects , a darkness of monochrome and black spaces and faintly gleaming edges . |
| 17 | After she 'd made out the application for him she said , ‘ Can you manage if I leave you with it ? ’ |