Example sentences of "[verb] make [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this , of the great poet-critics of the past the one he most nearly resembles is Dryden , whose criticism virtually always comes before us as the preface to a volume of original imaginative writing — including translations which , in this too like Pound , Dryden considers no less ‘ original ’ than poems he has made up for himself . |
| 2 | Jomeo is endearingly accident-prone and forever unsuccessful with females ; Gigi , by contrast , is wildly popular with the opposite sex and has made up for her childlessness by becoming a universal aunt to other females ' babies . |
| 3 | They may not have found quite the soulmate in each other that they had been looking for , but their relationship has made up for it in other ways . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But he 's back for tomorrow 's clash in neutral Germany at Bochum 's Ruhr Stadium , and manager Walter Smith said : ‘ Ally is bubbling and wants to make up for missing three games when he could have scored more goals . |
| 6 | Everton , still without their regular centre-backs Ratcliffe and Watson because of injury , again tried to make up for this by playing Snodin as a spare centre-back behind Keown and McDonald . |
| 7 | Donleavy tried to make up for it later by arranging a champagne thank-you weekend for the Colemans at the DIA 's expense in an exclusive little Georgetown hotel , but by then they were almost too tired to enjoy it . |
| 8 | She 'd been slow to see that , and tried to make up for it by saying quickly : ‘ Her jumping over ca n't have helped Eismark 's career . ’ |
| 9 | The roar from that great thoroughfare was deafening : traders , merchants and apprentices shouted themselves hoarse as they tried to make up for their previous loss of trade . |
| 10 | The workers , members of the International Association of Machinists , are taking advantage of the boom to try to make up for years of contract concessions and stagnant income . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Fellow midfielder Lawrie Sanchez , whose goal beat Liverpool in the 1988 FA Cup final , added : ‘ Every time we play them , they want to beat us to try to make up for the 1988 defeat . |
| 13 | But I knew it was useless to try to make up for all his losses . |
| 14 | ‘ When Chelsea signed me Ian Porterfield told me that if I got in the side he would n't drop me so I want to make up for lost time . ’ |
| 15 | But the the people I met made up for that . |
| 16 | After the English cricket and soccer debacles of the past week , Hastings ' side hope to make up for the misery by catching the All Blacks cold New Zealand have not played a Test for 10 months and face the Lions with a new team . |
| 17 | The milk ration for children was increased specifically to compensate for the nutritional shortfall in school meals that would otherwise have occurred ; civil servants realised there would be a public outcry if the meat reduction took place and nothing was done to make up for it . |
| 18 | However , attempts have been made to make up for this by the development of other devices such as question time , ten-minute rule bills and the practice of asking wide-ranging questions each Thursday when the business for the following week is announced . |
| 19 | It is often assumed that employers take advantage of the demand for positions where interesting work , pleasant conditions and a high degree of job satisfaction are reckoned to make up for low pay . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm going to make up for all those nights apart . |
| 21 | Popular with those who 've found romance late in life , and would like to make up for those lost years . |
| 22 | ALLY McCOIST last night declared himself fit for tomorrow 's European Cup match against CSKA Moscow — and vowed to make up for lost time . |
| 23 | Pancreatic enzymes are given to help improve digestion — and a high-protein , high fat diet with added vitamins is needed to make up for poor absorption of nutrients . |
| 24 | The Act was needed to make up for the shortcomings of the Sale of Goods Act , 1979 , which applied only to the transfer of goods from a seller to a buyer and not to a situation where goods were being provided as part of a service , such as building work and car repairs , for example . |
| 25 | Because that 's all he 's got , his knowledge that we 're happy ; it 's got to make up for hating what he does every day to keep us safe . |
| 26 | And it will do his own prospects no harm if he is seen attempting to make up for his failure to sign Alan Shearer in the summer . |
| 27 | We can therefore use the execute to make up for some of the deficiencies of a computer 's instruction set ; examples might be the coding of jump tables where the Computer does not have indexed jump instructions , or operations on dynamically variable-length data where the operand length is coded in the instruction format ; the latter is illustrated in Figure 3.18 . |
| 28 | Striving to make up for the considerable loss of all-rounder Jonathan Barnes , who is now a County League professional , Darlington RA have signed Australian Troy Dixon as their professional . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |