Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] make up for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Howard , the employment secretary , was left to make the best of this glum news by telling the TECs ' directors — 1,200 of them , by December 1990 — that they could make up for a shortfall in cash from the Treasury by raising money from the private sector . |
| 2 | I suppose I was conceited enough to imagine that the amount of love I have for her would make up for the deprivations . |
| 3 | Looking more like a bewildered Old English sheepdog than a thwarted child-molester , he throws himself around the place , lying on his back and waggling his feet in the air , as if by an excess of physical effort he could make up for the thinness of the script . |
| 4 | It will make up for the thirty-five minutes you were late . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It will make up for the dismal showing of the England football and cricket teams , lift some of the sporting gloom . |
| 6 | Friends who are very dissimilar may not give the same thing to each other , but what each gives can sometimes be even richer for this : it can make up for the other 's deficits . |