Example sentences of "he [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was well-aware of the sense in which he made up what happened to him , imagined his misfortune . |
| 2 | Paul , he made up covered with bullet wounds . |
| 3 | He made up his mind — and won |
| 4 | But what he lacked in build he made up for in speed and skill , nipping in and out of solid defences with astounding ease . |
| 5 | While sobbing , he made up his mind . |
| 6 | I rushed to see a physiotherapist , John Harris , and he made up a little pad around it with a hole in the middle so that I would n't put any pressure on it . |
| 7 | He made up his mind to tell Miss Claybury in the morning that things must change , otherwise he could no longer stay in her employ . |
| 8 | Finally he made up his mind about something : he asked Changez about Jamila and how she was . |
| 9 | He had a light lunch in a small sandwich bar off the street called Crutched Friars , where monks once hobbled with one leg bound behind them to cause pain for the greater glory of God , and he made up his mind what he would do . |
| 10 | ‘ We were a player short and he made up the numbers for us . ’ |
| 11 | Suddenly , he made up his mind , and threw the nervousness aside . |
| 12 | He liked the Latin name so much that he made up a sort of rhyme about it and chanted this as he went upstairs : |
| 13 | He made up his mind he 'd never make the same mistake twice . |
| 14 | A rigmarole he made up . |
| 15 | Dexter did not trust Russell one millimetre , let alone an inch , and he made up his mind to tell Blanche at the earliest opportunity . |
| 16 | So he made up a bed in the front of the byre there , and he was sixteen year in it . |
| 17 | He was not tall , close to minimum height in fact , but he was stocky , and he made up for lack of inches with a pressing , high-speed manner which sometimes made people think he was all noise and movement and no intelligence . |
| 18 | But he made up for it there by scoring a half century . |
| 19 | Of a sudden , he made up his mind . |
| 20 | He made up his mind to flee to Britain . |
| 21 | When Kevin O'Reilly , who runs the only pharmacy in Ederney , returned to the province , he made up the product for one psoriasis victim . |
| 22 | He made up his mind and poured out some more water . |
| 23 | He was aware of one thing about Ken on these trips : his concern about a lack of education which he made up for with his voracious reading . |
| 24 | I always thought that what he lacked in defensive qualities he made up for in attacking qualities . |
| 25 | She could hear Penry moving about upstairs as he made up the other bed . |
| 26 | Having failed English Alevel , five years on he made up for this by getting a first for his thesis and a fine arts degree from Portsmouth Polytechnic . |
| 27 | Oh he used to wash them and he had a proper , he had a case what he made up with a rack so as he could drop them all in . |
| 28 | Lastly , he made up his mind to see Charlie the Pigeon , who could tell him all the things happening in the neighbourhood , because he could fly so high + see so much . |
| 29 | In this chapter Lewis Carroll uses a word which is n't in the English dictionary , he uses a word he made up with his vivid imagination — ‘ Contrariwise ’ which means to be contrary . |
| 30 | Er er bank clerks , this was the top half er shop keepers , erm and and and sort of the further you went to they , the better the people came because they were top half I mean I remember Tom Williams the professional golfer , he lived up there . |