Example sentences of "[adv] try to make [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the RPF 's leaders were uneasy about risking the new movement 's reputation by contesting these elections , but de Gaulle , perhaps trying to make up for the lost opportunities of 1945 and 1946 , was adamant that the Rassemblement should make an all-out effort to capture as much popular support as possible . |
| 2 | Before Christmas many of the shops had to open on Sundays for the first time just to try to make up for the terrible year . |
| 3 | Then he said in a calmer voice , ‘ Well , perhaps I 'm just trying to make up for lost time . ’ |
| 4 | I mean it 's really trying to make up for the differences in the coverage that students coming into the university have had . |
| 5 | An Irish dressmaker from nowhere , called Cara Adeane , might well try to make off with Miss Dallam 's satin . |
| 6 | Everton , still without their regular centre-backs Ratcliffe and Watson because of injury , again tried to make up for this by playing Snodin as a spare centre-back behind Keown and McDonald . |