Example sentences of "make [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | But he more than made up for that night by setting up both Arsenal 's goals with a performance of poise and maturity . |
| 32 | If Winterbottom had not played much hard rugby with Headingley , then he more than made up for it in those few short months . |
| 33 | Peter endowed the occasion with an atmosphere of reconciliation : the fact that he and Kate were together somehow made up for Abbotsfield ; there was no longer any need to feel guilty . |
| 34 | Wright had made up for his 99 at Christchurch by pulling Lawrence joyously for successive boundaries to reach three figures , and Jones , having scored his first Test century against England , looked hungry for more . |
| 35 | The out of centre position is made up for by the excellent rates Amsterdam Travel Service have specially negotiated at this hotel . |
| 36 | His limited means , however , were made up for by the passion of his yearning to collect . |
| 37 | We go through the dozen or so photograph albums that Christine has made up for her , and Anna points out her grown-up ‘ sisters ’ , Christine and Sarah-Jane ; she also names her nieces and nephews for me . |
| 38 | Not a real law of course , but a rule Carrie had made up for herself and had stuck to , until she forgot it today . |
| 39 | I was woken up in the night sometimes , the spare bed in my room being made up for someone they 'd met down the Club , the other lodger 's room already occupied . |
| 40 | Generally speaking , the amount of sleep lost is not made up for entirely on the recovery nights . |
| 41 | and these would have made up for some of the others perhaps won for them by Lloyd George . |
| 42 | I let my wife buy Harris and Cheviot lengths for winter when she 's in London , but I never allow her to have them made up for herself . |
| 43 | Time will put everything right , unkind words , ill-judged behaviour — stupidity , cruelty , it can all be made up for , cancelled out later . |
| 44 | But while you 're doing that , I 'm trying to get the wages made up for — ’ began Josh , then exploded irritably as someone knocked at the office door : ‘ What is it now ? ’ |
| 45 | ‘ If you were , you 've certainly made up for it since . |
| 46 | The guards were ill-trained and fearful , with little combat experience , while what the rebels lacked in training and tactics was more than made up for in sheer ferocity and homicidal bloodlust . |
| 47 | Well let's say we 've made up for it , for you may have no doubt whom to thank for your performance at the court . |
| 48 | The traditionally Muslim peoples of Central Asia accounted for a further 15 per cent ; and the balance was made up for the most part of the larger national groups in Transcaucasia and the Baltic . |
| 49 | He was quick to come to the city 's defence , arguing that , what was lacking in financial support , was made up for in sheer determination , enthusiasm and innovation , ‘ We have been keen to draw out the general cultural life of Dublin ’ , he explained , ‘ much of our funding has been matched by donations from such organisations as the EEC ’ . |
| 50 | The Princess of Wales may not have been quick to learn at school — possibly because her lessons did not interest her much — but she has certainly made up for lost time since her marriage . |
| 51 | Emotional maturation is arrested during the active phase of addictive disease and therefore the counsellor who is in recovery will need to have made up for this lost time for emotional development . |
| 52 | Non-ruminants can not extract much energy from the hard parts of the plant ; however , this is more than made up for by the fact that food passes much more quickly through their guts . |
| 53 | The unpredictability of the man was more than made up for by the heady feeling of surrendering to life at its sweetest and most bright . |
| 54 | The double bed had been made up for two and there were two pyjama cases — relics of a past time — one embroidered with the letter ‘ I ’ , the other with an ‘ A ’ . |
| 55 | Flower arrangers can test their skills by submitting designs for that posy , and colleagues will choose the winning entry to be made up for 2 July . |
| 56 | His knowledge of the Bible was minimal but he soon made up for it . |
| 57 | It had been a couple of days before it dawned on him : they were the full-size versions of the houses and station buildings he and his father had made up for their never-quite-finished model railway layout . |
| 58 | She was young and vigorous , a warm and comely maid , and what she lacked in skill , Mathilda certainly made up for in enthusiasm . |
| 59 | But as he was finishing his second pint , and wondering again whether to go up and see one or other of the Mrs Machins , his mind was made up for him . |
| 60 | Crilly has tidied the flat , and my bed is made up for a queen with extra duvets and fluffy pillows . |