Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] make [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I 'll make up a spreadsheet with twenty five or thirty blank columns , but with all the formulas in place |
| 2 | I 'll make up a bed in one of the other rooms tonight . |
| 3 | I could make out a couple of dozen large buildings . |
| 4 | I could make out a sort of close-fitting purple cap on the back of her head . |
| 5 | I nearly always won , as I remember ; and as we left the club or the hall I would make quite a show of hailing a taxi , offering to drop Julian off at the nearest tube . |
| 6 | The area had been given an unfair image by ‘ so far as I can make out a group of tearaways who are , at the moment , completely uncontrollable . |
| 7 | You must make quite a lot of money — ’ |
| 8 | She could make up a story , say she suffered temporary amnesia , or that she was knocked unconscious by thieves and all her money was gone , but she doubted she could make it sound believable . |
| 9 | If you could make up a sentence with those . |
| 10 | Ever wish you could make up a degree course to suit your own needs ? |
| 11 | But the yard one of the yard inspectors came to me and said , I wonder if you would make up a roster for the supervisors . |
| 12 | I still think highly of that set but it comes on three discs — and even taking Hyperion 's cheaper price into consideration , you will make quite a saving on the newer set . |
| 13 | I 'll find some sheets presently and you can make up a bed in the spare room . |
| 14 | The curving windows at the stern are freckled with spray ; through one of them you can make out a set of fat capstans and a listless macaroni of sodden rope . |
| 15 | So we thought we might make up a party from the parish and go to Rome . ’ |
| 16 | Perhaps we could make up a party . |
| 17 | As illustrated in Figure 1.9 , we can make out a number of levels more basic than this ; the electronic circuits themselves , the logical functions ( such as gates and flipflops ) , and the functional units ( such as adders and registers ) . |
| 18 | They might make quite a thing of it . |
| 19 | Ramsay , who found himself at the head of nearly a thousand men of Lothian , largely Lindsays — whose chief , Sir David , Keeper of Edinburgh Castle , was sick and so not present — Setons , Hepburns , Sinclairs , Keiths and other lesser clans , as well as his own men , offered to ride fast for the Borderland , to join Scott of Rankilburn whom Douglas had alerted to watch Dunbar ; together they would make up a force large enough to give that Earl pause . |
| 20 | You concealed knowledge of a deserter , you actually helped him stay deserted , and They can make out a case for saying you still are . |
| 21 | Each student can make up a package of tests to go for ; he may repeat those that he fails , without the social disaster of being kept down a year ; and he may make up a mix of practical and theoretical according to a plan worked out with his class teacher , and bearing in mind what he aims to do next . |
| 22 | The Doctor followed the narrow road down through a small valley , before climbing back up towards a bare hilltop where he could make out a number of tiny wooden crosses , like a forest of lifeless bonsai trees . |
| 23 | But as his eyes grew accustomed to it he could make out a hand protruding from the open lounge doorway . |
| 24 | ‘ Shush , Mamma , ’ Rosa had said , and then Sabina had come in again with the bird — it would make only a bite to eat . |
| 25 | ‘ It will make quite a difference to the Feethams side of the building , ’ said Mr Buxton . |