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English Audio Request

sergioaraujo
332 Words / 1 Recordings / 1 Comments
Note to recorder:

If possible I would like to hear a casual reading, natural speed.
Thank you in advance!

Peter makes up lots of explanations for his break up, but none of them is real.
The truth is that he cheated on her and she dumped him.

Carol didn’t hand in her homework and made up and excuse about having been robbed.
I didn’t buy it and sent her mother a note.

Carl was so deeply in love with Sara that he made up a poem and read
it out loud for her in front of the classroom.

In order to get more job interviews, he made up a neat
professional background and put on his resume.

The doctor made up a prescription for my cough.

We can make a bed up in the living room if you’d like to stay.

Ten years make up a decade.

Brigadeiro is made up of chocolate powder, butter and condensed milk.

My college monthly fee is R$800,00. I pay R$300,00 and my father makes up the rest.

After making herself up, she looks like another person.

They made up her face and she looked like a ghost.

We’ve been always like this. We argue all the time, but in the end we make up.

Why don’t you two just let it go and make up?

I haven’t made up with my girlfriend yet.

I’m sorry I forgot your birthday. I’ll make it up to you by getting you a new iPhone.

I wanto to make it up for having charged you wrongly last time. You can choose any game you want… it´s free.

I have seen you make up to the boss, hoping to get a promotion.
Eu tenho visto você cheia de amizade com o chefe, esperando ganhar uma promoção.

Nothing can make up for the loss of a child.

He brought her chocolate to make up for being late.

The good price made up for the distance.

I’ve already made up my mind. No more dating. It’s time to get married.

She’s made up her mind and is wasting no more time.

Recordings

  • How use the phrasal verb "Make Up" ( recorded by clamdisco ), North East United States

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    Peter makes up lots of explanations for his break up, but none of them are real.
    The truth is that he cheated on her and then she dumped him.

    Carol didn’t hand in her homework and made up an excuse about having been robbed.
    I didn’t buy it and sent her mother a note.

    Carl was so deeply in love with Sara that he made up a poem and read
    it out loud for her in front of the classroom.

    In order to get more job interviews, he made up a neat
    professional background and put on his resume.

    The doctor made up a prescription for my cough. (Sounds unnatural. You would say a doctor wrote me a prescription.)

    We can make a bed up in the living room if you’d like to stay. (The idiom is "make a bed," not make up a bed).

    Ten years make up a decade.

    Brigadeiro is made up of chocolate powder, butter and condensed milk. (This is passable but the "up" is unnecessary)

    My college monthly fee is R$800,00. I pay R$300,00 and my father makes up the rest.

    After making herself up, she looks like another person.

    They made up her face and she looked like a ghost.

    We’ve been always like this. We argue all the time, but in the end we make up.

    Why don’t you two just let it go and make up?

    I haven’t made up with my girlfriend yet.

    I’m sorry I forgot your birthday. I’ll make it up to you by getting you a new iPhone.

    I want to make it up for having charged you wrongly last time. You can choose any game you want… it´s free.

    I have seen you make up to the boss, hoping to get a promotion. (Kiss up is a more appropriate phrase.)
    Eu tenho visto você cheia de amizade com o chefe, esperando ganhar uma promoção.

    Nothing can make up for the loss of a child.

    He brought her chocolate to make up for being late.

    The good price made up for the distance.

    I’ve already made up my mind. No more dating. It’s time to get married.

    She’s made up her mind and is wasting no more time.

Comments

sergioaraujo
Dec. 5, 2015

I am so glad to hear you job, thank you very much!

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