Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] up for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they make up for a curtailed visual field by being able to rotate their heads through 180° . |
| 2 | Several factories in Northamptonshire , anticipating the drift to the County Ground for the mid-week game , closed down for the day , but in Northampton itself factory workers were allowed the afternoon off only if they made up for it in overtime . |
| 3 | I do n't know why they imagine it 's ‘ poofy ’ or we would n't find it attractive if they dressed up for us . |
| 4 | In fact , these advisory councils neither have the strength conferred by expert knowledge , nor the experience of full-time work in the field , nor the responsibility conferred by direct election , but they cover up for the assumed need for some outside , popular supervision of these administrative agencies . |
| 5 | None of the group is especially common as fossils , but they make up for their general rarity by their interest . |
| 6 | I mean lunch time we were hearing how , because they stood up for what was right , it was over the killing of soldiers and that , this man job and actually he more or less said that he was something wrong with his head did n't he ? |
| 7 | Determined to shoot one with a really fine head , I decided to spend a night near the mountain-top so that I could hunt for them in the early morning before they lay up for the day . |
| 8 | As the rest of the royals head to Balmoral tomorrow morning , Diana will pick up ten-year-old William and Harry , eight , when they break up for the Christmas holidays from Ludgrove school in Wokingham . |
| 9 | I shall go down to the coffee morning at playschool when they break up for Easter next week |
| 10 | and then when they break up for Easter and it 's only sort of like whatever it is from now until September |
| 11 | Two of Queen Victoria 's night dresses failed to attract any interest when they came up for auction . |
| 12 | Aloof , distant , stylishly diving for fish , roughly ambushing seals when they come up for air . |
| 13 | so er , cos me heart was in me mouth when they come up for Christmas , and that 's the last time they were up I thought me tree 's gon na go over , you know , I thought if he pulls at me tree or anything , but , he was , he was as good as gold for not , he was n't trying to get me ornaments or anything , he was er , you know , just happy to play with his own toys , so he was n't naughty . |
| 14 | DUNCAN FERGUSON and Scott Booth will this afternoon get the opportunity to justify Craig Brown 's opinion that they are full internationalists of the future when they team up for the first time in Scotland 's Under-21 side . |
| 15 | More than 50 business men and women showed their incredible resolve when they turned up for an emergency meeting in Craigavon yesterday . |
| 16 | It was breathed against her lips , as they came up for air , and the erotic fire scorching through her made her dizzy with illicit longing . |
| 17 | We are loudly human all the way back as they light up for me just how far I had strayed . |
| 18 | ‘ Piece of cake , ’ Nails agreed as they lined up for the first time on the pool edge . |
| 19 | Library users lobbied councillors as they turned up for todays education committee meeting . |