Example sentences of "[adv] make [adv prt] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were more than a few ‘ One Sergeant Wilko ’ and similar chants during the evening , perhaps making up for the heat-of-the-moment bollocking he got at Anfield for taking off a very industrious Rod Wallace . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But that one painted notice is not enough to make up for the shabby doors , scruffy brickwork , and grimy frosted glass . |
| 5 | ‘ It is worth many thousands of Australian dollars so that will partly make up for the disappointment . |
| 6 | By the way they 're also made up for the following week as well in case , if it 's Tuesday night , oh , let me just look at next week , what have I got ? |
| 7 | After that tour , Western Province employed both myself and Graham Gooch for two winters , which partially made up for the fees we lost by not being able to tour with England during the three-year Test ban . |
| 8 | Yet nothing can quite make up for the gaudy excesses of the auto-da-fe . |
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| 10 | It 's actually fitting all those tolerances and then making up for the slop in the system . |
| 11 | It 's actually fitting all those tolerances and then making up for the slop in the system . |
| 12 | 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 … |
| 13 | 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 . |