Example sentences of "[adv] to make [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It would seem highly unlikely , except at the times when falling piece rates forced them to , that domestic workers averaged such hours through the week , although they must have worked them on some days , if only to make up for slacker work early in the week .
2 These people have always Done Things in previous lives , perhaps to make up for their rather undistinguished efforts while being alive and in their own bodies .
3 If you get stuck in submissiveness you will often seek forgiveness and try endlessly to make up for what you have done !
4 The world No. 1 gave the tie her best , however , but even that was not enough to make up for the shortcomings of her second in command , Claudia Kohde- Kilsch .
5 Although people were allowed to eat other foods freely , in fact when they were deprived of their refined carbohydrates they tended not to increase their intake of these alternative foods very much — not enough to make up for the calories they were saving .
6 Some cooks are born great , others have their natural skill improved by training , yet others train hard enough to make up for a lack of natural talent .
7 But that one painted notice is not enough to make up for the shabby doors , scruffy brickwork , and grimy frosted glass .
8 I 've got some stamps , enough to make up to ninepence .
9 Germany 's Seizinger , narrow leader in the battle for the World Cup overall title , fell on the second leg of a giant slalom in Are , Sweden as she tried desperately to make up for lost time .
10 It was as if by revealing a hint of softness to Nutty , knowing that she suspected him of acquiescing in order to save Firelight from the chop , a girlish affection betrayed , he then behaved more churlishly than ever to make up for it .
11 I 'll have to work a bit harder to make up for lost time when I get there .
12 There was a mild stockbuilding boom , probably to make up for dislocations over the winter , and commodity prices took off again .
13 Some form of processing ( amplifiers ) will be used in a long-distance system to ‘ boost ’ the signal level every so often to make up for losses before it is sent on its way again .
14 Yet it may be bad for other firms , even sound ones , since lenders will become increasingly wary , and may charge higher interest rates overall to make up for their higher risks .
15 The latter comes in only when this mechanism is no longer operative , when it fails to apply , and the role of the preposition is then to make up for the inoperative movement of incidence …
16 Whatever John 's mother may have thought about his likely lack of application when he wanted to study music , once he decided to learn ballet he took it seriously and must have worked hard to make up for a late start .
17 In the cave itself , bas-reliefs sculpted close together on a stalagmite cone , hard to make out for the most part , except for an obvious and memorable reindeer some three feet long , in the museum , animals graphically carved or engraved on bone , many of them heads of horses , but fish too , and pieces of bone , antler and ivory carved quite elaborately into abstract patterns of diamond shapes , chevrons or spirals .
18 He replied that it appeared that there was a trust on the coheir too to make over to Seia the quarter which he had in the gardens .
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