Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb base] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | None of the group is especially common as fossils , but they make up for their general rarity by their interest . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I shall go down to the coffee morning at playschool when they break up for Easter next week |
| 6 | and then when they break up for Easter and it 's only sort of like whatever it is from now until September |
| 7 | Aloof , distant , stylishly diving for fish , roughly ambushing seals when they come up for air . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We are loudly human all the way back as they light up for me just how far I had strayed . |