Example sentences of "made up the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ You just made up the word , ’ he tells me , as if that is forbidden . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Mr Parker , 33 , denied that Joanna , 25 , could have made up the story . |
5 | But Mr Stewart said : ‘ You are a liar and you have made up the story about the gun and the threats to kill . ’ |
6 | However , the countess was later charged with perverting the course of justice after police became convinced she had made up the story . |
7 | Made up the words and music to a Christmas carol ? |
8 | ‘ 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 . |
9 | Blanche may have made up the prowling . |
10 | 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 . ’ |
11 | 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 . |
12 | But if you 've made up the gain at all , then since it 's residential property , it 's exempt . |
13 | Equity investors have made up the difference . |