Example sentences of "try to make [adv prt] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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1 | The roar from that great thoroughfare was deafening : traders , merchants and apprentices shouted themselves hoarse as they tried to make up for their previous loss of trade . |
2 | That was when she 'd first decided to try to make up to her father for what he 'd lost . |
3 | And Mike ; always so good to her , teasing her , making her feel special , as though he had tried to make up for her real father 's dying when she was a baby ; not wanting her to feel left out when Martin had been born . |
4 | An international row is brewing among scientists who say that the EEC 's ISPRA establishment in Italy is trying to make up for its loss of Super-SARA by stealing other plum research contracts for which it is ill-equipped from specialist fusion laboratories throughout West Europe . |
5 | Trying to make up for his misspent youth . |
6 | Former England opener Geoff Boycott chased and caught a thief who was trying to make off with his golf clubs and a holdall at King 's Cross station in London recently . |