Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] make [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All teams , though , have much ground to make up on the Samoans , who in the course of their four ties at the weekend , scored 23 tries . |
| 2 | Some of the RPF 's leaders were uneasy about risking the new movement 's reputation by contesting these elections , but de Gaulle , perhaps trying to make up for the lost opportunities of 1945 and 1946 , was adamant that the Rassemblement should make an all-out effort to capture as much popular support as possible . |
| 3 | Before Christmas many of the shops had to open on Sundays for the first time just to try to make up for the terrible year . |
| 4 | Although , in terms of volume or profitability , such discoveries can not hope to make up for the fading glory of the state 's North Slope field , daily Alaskan production might fall by only a few hundred thousand barrels over the next decade , rather than dwindling away , as some had suggested . |
| 5 | I mean it 's really trying to make up for the differences in the coverage that students coming into the university have had . |
| 6 | I wondered briefly what a British nursing sister would have said , but the act of motherly comfort may well have made up for the lack of quiet during the day . |
| 7 | If so , how do make out in the company league table ? |