Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] make [adv prt] for the " in BNC.

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1 I suppose I was conceited enough to imagine that the amount of love I have for her would make up for the deprivations .
2 Looking more like a bewildered Old English sheepdog than a thwarted child-molester , he throws himself around the place , lying on his back and waggling his feet in the air , as if by an excess of physical effort he could make up for the thinness of the script .
3 It will make up for the thirty-five minutes you were late . ’
4 It will make up for the dismal showing of the England football and cricket teams , lift some of the sporting gloom .
5 Friends who are very dissimilar may not give the same thing to each other , but what each gives can sometimes be even richer for this : it can make up for the other 's deficits .
6 Hadley is adamant that , despite the views expressed by Wayne Shelford , nothing can make up for the satisfaction of representing the country of your birth at international level .
7 But nothing can make up for the fact that any improvements in prescribing practice are too late to save Lexie .
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