Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] up for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His landlord wants him to pay a further $170 to make up for the deposit that 's gone missing . |
| 2 | He persuaded her to eat a little fish to make up for the missing protein . |
| 3 | Twenty per cent watch blue movies to get in the mood ; 7% smoke marijuana ; a further 7% tie their partner up ; and 6% dress up for the part . |
| 4 | Maybe a couple of dozen people show up for the party ; about half locals — mostly men , though there 's one married couple and a pair of single girls — and half travellers , New Age hippies from various scattered buses and vans parked in lay-bys and the highway equivalent of oxbows , where corners or short , twisty lengths of old roads have been replaced with more direct stretches . |
| 5 | Two thousand , seven hundred people turned up for the opening session of Object World ‘ 92 in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago , Katy Ring was one of them . |
| 6 | His stars are real , the issues are real and , yes , the pauses those emotional , heart-felt mental delays when people open up for the cameras they , too , are so very , very real . |
| 7 | They follow the Cheque Act hurried through Parliament just before MPs broke up for the election . |
| 8 | Some people work up for a lifetime to cross the Channel and then get published in a magazine . |
| 9 | 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 . |