Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [art] [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The paper quoted his wife as saying : " We hope our work within the ANC will … make up for the hurt caused to so many people by Dr Verwoerd . " |
| 2 | There has been increasing anguish among law-abiding poll tax payers who are being surcharged £19 to make up for the shortfall caused by uncollected tax . |
| 3 | A two week tour of Europe was organised for late-June/July in order to make up for the shows cancelled at the end of last year . |
| 4 | Peace within the new boundaries allowed Milan to make up for the time lost during the bloody years of Napoleon 's campaigns and the Risorgimento . |
| 5 | Phone cards have done a lot to alleviate the problem , but British Telecommunications Plc is required by its licence to maintain coin-operated public telephones as well , and the company reckons that smashing and entering of the cash boxes costs it £19m a year — and if you think that it 's all just casual vandalism , think again — the company told the Daily Mail that there was actually a man offering courses on the best ways of clawing open the boxes quickly and easily — he charged £80 for the course , and then took the best pupil out for a test run around the local boxes . |
| 6 | More than 3,000 turned out for a rally organised by 2 hoteliers who say they just had to do something . |
| 7 | Twelve to fourteen you did that , and I took papers out for a newsagent called on erm . |
| 8 | And monthly-payment forms of credit , also generally cheaper , tend to rule themselves out for the reasons given above . |
| 9 | Watch out for the features detailed in the diagram — taken from Blueprint for a Green Planet . |
| 10 | They should be available in the next few months , so if you 're thinking about buying a new one , look out for the label marked BS4863 . |
| 11 | Could she really have been reading that ? he wondered , looking around for the novel stuffed behind a cushion . |