Example sentences of "[noun] make [adv] for [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Le Tissier made up for his earlier error after 72 minutes when he crashed home a 30-yard a left-foot volley but his team could find no way back . |
| 2 | Jeff made up for his neglect by taking Ronni out for both lunch and dinner next day . |
| 3 | I had an MXR Distortion Plus and an MXR Blue Box ( a prehistoric harmonizer making up for its dodgy tracking with an intriguing wobbly sound and some rather excellent white noise — Ed ) . |
| 4 | Comfort 's anguished determination to make up for her earlier coldness made her far more interfering than Annunziata , whose calm gentleness provided the only moments of real respite for Julia . |
| 5 | Still , seven minutes later Magilton made up for his miss . |
| 6 | Fred made up for his lack of inches by waging psychological warfare in the form of a relentless monologue . |
| 7 | ROD WALLACE last night pleaded for the chance to make up for his England heartache , writes John Edwards . |
| 8 | All the judges can do is award a greater proportion of non pension assets to the wife to make up for her lack of long term security and if these other assets are small , the husband is still the winner . |
| 9 | He determined not to give Gina any housekeeping this week to make up for his losses . |
| 10 | The Georgian side is trying to smear the Russian armed forces to make up for its own errors , ’ he said . |
| 11 | But the results made up for her ordeal |
| 12 | I backed away in alarm and refused to touch it , so Sean made up for my abstinence . |
| 13 | Solange Auxias de Turenne had the idea of staging an open air exhibition of Moore 's sculptures in Paris after visiting a garden made especially for his large-scale bronzes at the Fondation Pierre Gianadda in 1989 ; the suggestion by the City of Paris to use the Gardens of Bagatelle was approved by the Director of the Henry Moore Foundation , Sir Alan Bowness . |
| 14 | Such remarks made up for our embarrassing waits . |
| 15 | Huddersfield made up for their failure in the Cup by winning the League Championship in the next season , 1923–4 . |
| 16 | Dyer was applauded by the diehard press to make up for his censure by the government . |
| 17 | I travelled back to Athens , partly in order to make up for my ignominious run in the European Indoor there in 1985 . |
| 18 | Taken to extremes , it will cause the person who feels inadequate to become a workaholic , compelling him to take on more and more in order to make up for his own shortcomings . |
| 19 | ‘ The officials at Preston have been nothing but encouraging and in the early days the coaching staff put in a lot of time to make up for my lack of experience . |
| 20 | For a long time KFW has been promoting in particular the small and medium scale sector of the economy , i.e. it grants loans at favourable interest rates to small and medium sized enterprises to make up for their specific financing disadvantages … |
| 21 | Tell you what , I 'll buy you a cup of coffee to make up for my bad temper before . ’ |
| 22 | Consequently the car you see in the photograph is powered by one of the neatest engines around — a five -valve per cylinder V12 with no fewer than four turbochargers to make up for its relatively small , 3.5-litre capacity . |