Example sentences of "made [pron] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made nothing out of it . |
| 2 | Those who could n't read the words made them up , and Tich , who 'd lost his glasses , settled for singing ‘ Widecombe Fair ’ instead , coughing , spluttering and relishing his last night out . |
| 3 | They were supervised by a Miss Walker who , although she could not dance , also watched over their dances and made them up every night . |
| 4 | The police did not have reasons to arrest people , they made them up . |
| 5 | Most patients reacted to injections of a number of substances and he made them up custom made ‘ vaccines ’ of supposed antidotes . |
| 6 | I made them up just in the spur of the moment . |
| 7 | If the police think we made them up , they 'll think the same about the tapes , maybe about the kidnap itself . ’ |
| 8 | There was no famine and for most urban residents conditions of life improved during the 1920s — 1930s , but cities were by no means the havens of wealth and prosperity that hostile or covetous agricultural ideologues made them out to be . |
| 9 | Well Laura and Gemma wanted to make these pasties and she 'd asked me at the weekend and I did n't have the time because I think Irene came down cos I asked Irene whether she 'd looked after , you know I 'm at college until three , and she said yeah I 'll pick them up and er I could n't get her out at then so I promised she could make them so , I said alright you and Gemma make them , anyway they did very well they made them in about fifteen minutes because we had to go and get Emily at four from school , I said hurry up , hurry up put the water in Emily quick stick them together shove them now and put them in the oven |
| 10 | ‘ Like I said , ’ he explained , ‘ after those last months in Sweden , the Ruskis made me up to Captain . |
| 11 | But Susan hit back saying : ‘ She made me out to be some ditsy small-town mum who wanted to meet a star . |
| 12 | ‘ I suppose he made me out to be some kind of thief ! |
| 13 | ‘ I suppose she made me out to be a right little idiot , ’ says Anya . |
| 14 | ‘ They made me out to be a hooligan , which I 'm not . ’ |
| 15 | er , when you know you go home and lying on the doormat on the Friday night is a great tome of paper that came second post which made me out to be the biggest idiot philanderer , thief , cheat and liar in the world |
| 16 | Yeah , but made my in for a tea . |
| 17 | He made himself over by taking up body-building in the Scottish style — which is long and lean rather than pillows of bulk — and changed his name from Thomas to Sean ( in Edinburgh , he 's still universally known as ‘ Big Tam ’ ) . |
| 18 | John Howard Griffin made himself up to look like a negro and passed himself off as one in the southern USA for his book Black Like Me . |
| 19 | Charles made himself up for the new role , and dressed in the new costume . |
| 20 | I do n't even know if you have a mother or father , or whether they made you up in a test tube . |
| 21 | Marks said : ‘ So they made you up to DI . ’ |
| 22 | And you made you in like camera work , or could you actually |
| 23 | He made something up . |
| 24 | Glenn Hoddle … the tru thoroughbred made something out of nothing … |
| 25 | It must have been then , in a final flush of family feeling , that he made everything over to Nigel . ’ |
| 26 | The pilot , with no diplomatic clearance number , made one up ; air-traffic control did not believe him , but he managed to weave his way towards Iran even as he argued with them . |
| 27 | Ireland seemed to be heading for a win in the bottom match when Mary McKenna and Aideen Rogers turned three up but Joanne Hockley and Sandy Lambert made one up . |
| 28 | My brother made one back home . |
| 29 | I made one out of a pale wine a ros wine as well , the girls do n't like the red wine , but they like the ros wine |
| 30 | On her very next day off Paula made herself up carefully , put on her smartest suit — a cheap version of the one she had shown in the restaurant — and caught a bus to Bristol . |