Example sentences of "[verb] to make [adv] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , she will have to make up for it afterwards ! |
| 7 | It was an uncompromising little den which , in keeping with the rest of the house , stoutly refused to make up for its lack of charm . |
| 8 | And Mike ; always so good to her , teasing her , making her feel special , as though he had tried to make up for her real father 's dying when she was a baby ; not wanting her to feel left out when Martin had been born . |
| 9 | There is no doubt in my mind that the many years spent wrestling indifferent cars around the track , trying to make up for what Lauda calls the ‘ evil ’ that dwells in all of them , must take its toll . |
| 10 | An international row is brewing among scientists who say that the EEC 's ISPRA establishment in Italy is trying to make up for its loss of Super-SARA by stealing other plum research contracts for which it is ill-equipped from specialist fusion laboratories throughout West Europe . |
| 11 | Trying to make up for his misspent youth . |
| 12 | As she slipped her mink coat over her shoulders , she resolved to make up for it next day . |
| 13 | The mathematics master obviously intended to make up for his long silence during the earlier part of the term . |
| 14 | He wrote to me before he died and I did n't write back and I just wanted to make up for it in some way if I could . |
| 15 | This must help to make up for her disappointment in the Cowal Championships when , due to an error in the markings , she missed out on a fourth place medal . |