Example sentences of "made [pers pn] [vb infin] up " in BNC.

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1 On the morrow the Cid took Doña Ximena by the hand , and her daughters with her , and made them go up upon the highest tower of the Alcazar , and they looked toward the sea and saw the great power of the Moors , how they came on and drew nigh , and began to pitch their tents round about Valencia , beating their tambours and with great uproar .
2 What we do n't know is what they had in common that made them end up where they did . ’
3 A shout made them look up .
4 A noisily closing door made them glance up at the ship 's sunlit bridge .
5 She tied a big red-and-white-striped drying-up cloth around each of their waists and made them kneel up to the table on chairs .
6 I 'll bet he made them rope up to do the dishes .
7 Vern wandered slowly in front taking not a blind bit of notice of me , not even when I shouted at the long-beaked birds and made them flap up into the air crying like out-of-tune seagulls .
8 When the prophet Ezekiel was in the valley of bones he prophesied to the bones and made them join up together .
9 Moustaine made me stand up and slapped me across the eyes with his leather gloves .
10 It very nearly made me give up the entire project .
11 ‘ He made me dress up in clothes like my mother 's .
12 The thought of her tits pressed up against my face nearly made me throw up , and I had-to disappoint him .
13 ‘ My parents ' break-up made me grow up very quickly which really helps quite a lot in my profession , ’ he says .
14 Hearing of this preliminary training for the Parachute Regiment at Hardwick made me think up an indelicate version of the famous old rhyme about that prodigy house , ‘ Hardwick Hall , more glass than wall ’ : ‘ Hardwick Hall , sore a — e when fall ’ .
15 For several seconds I do n't know what made me wake up .
16 ‘ The Ukrainian Peel sessions actually made me sit up and take notice .
17 That made me sit up .
18 My mother made me take up tap dancing , because I 'd got sparrow legs .
19 A sound from overhead made me look up .
20 I 'd been looking down all the time we were talking , but he made me look up then , and our eyes met and I know something passed between us .
21 ‘ What made you give up your privileged life to join this man ? ’
22 What made you give up education ?
23 What made you give up ?
24 ‘ So what made you join up ? ’
25 A screech made her look up .
26 She had no idea how long she had been there when a movement in the undergrowth made her look up .
27 Tsu Ma laughed ; a soft , generous laughter that made her look up at him again and meet his eyes .
28 Something in his voice made her look up at him .
29 He touched her gently under the chin and made her look up .
30 She examined the shoulder again , and made him sit up while she tested the arm for full movement .
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