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 .
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