Example sentences of "make [adv prt] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After 400 yds , just before ridge rises , bear half left down off ridge : soon lake and outdoor centre passed at start of walk are seen below — make down for right-hand end of lake . |
| 2 | Palin may not have travelled much as a young man , but he has now made up for lost time . |
| 3 | Dunne , Chapman 's last attempt to find a successor to Lambert , proved to be past his best , but Drake more than made up for lost time , scoring 42 League goals in 1934–5 , a club record for a single season . |
| 4 | Of course , since his release , he had made up for lost time , becoming quite a wheel in the charity game , but those two years had stayed with him . |
| 5 | The Princess of Wales may not have been quick to learn at school — possibly because her lessons did not interest her much — but she has certainly made up for lost time since her marriage . |
| 6 | But he more than made up for that night by setting up both Arsenal 's goals with a performance of poise and maturity . |
| 7 | Flower arrangers can test their skills by submitting designs for that posy , and colleagues will choose the winning entry to be made up for 2 July . |
| 8 | Unfortunately for them Palace injuries prevented the other two players from making any more than token contributions to our promotion hopes of the late 1920s and early 1930s , but Tom Crilly , a full-back by profession , more than made up for those disappointments . |
| 9 | In time , beach reconnaissance would become a scientific study of landing areas and their immediate hinterland — the littoral across which Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott 's men would lead raiders and the van of invasions , guiding the landing craft crews with marker canoes and other devices that in part at least made up for these flotillas ' limited experience of coastal navigation . |
| 10 | Yet an argument could be made out for Haversian bone being linked with large body-size rather than thermoregulation techniques . |
| 11 | Despite recent insights then , a respectable case can be made out for some form of intervention in some natural monopoly cases . |
| 12 | Those councils which wanted to could make up for lost grant by increasing rate levels , and many did so , so that overall levels of spending did not fall significantly . |
| 13 | She took the flower-filled trug from Dr Neil , admired the blooms , adding briskly , ‘ Come along , McAllister ; you might as well make up for lost time , ’ and all three of them walked into the parlour , Matey and McAllister of necessity , since it was their only indoor access to the kitchen . |
| 14 | ‘ Why do n't we make up for lost time , then , Luke ? |
| 15 | The reports of international commissions such as that of Brandt do not make up for this gap . |
| 16 | Eggs are the perfect protein , containing all eight essential amino acids , so they can make up for any deficiency that may be caused elsewhere . |
| 17 | ‘ All Mr Fallon 's splutterings will not make up for those people who are on record waiting lists in Darlington . |
| 18 | Succeeding in this would make up for previous frustration in attempts to follow Bowen . |
| 19 | Then they escorted us to our rooms , where we gratefully made up for lost sleep . |
| 20 | SKIPPER Allan Border hit his highest first-class score of the tour as Australia made up for lost time on a rain-hit day against Warwickshire at Edgbaston . |
| 21 | Switzerland made up for 500 years of neutrality by setting about the Canadian team , who were unsportingly thrashing them . |
| 22 | ‘ Good thinking , Princess , ’ he said , with an easy charm that made up for any lack of etiquette . |
| 23 | So it made up for any other , er , you know . |
| 24 | Fortunately the driver made up for this heresy by roundly cursing the French , whom he disliked for the same reason that most Englishmen do — the way they clutter up the place , never get out of the way and ca n't speak English . |
| 25 | The women made up for this restraint . |
| 26 | He had no abilities , but made up for this drawback with sharp elbows . |
| 27 | OLDHAM Athletic , who had never beaten a First Division side since they dropped into the Second Division in 1923 , made up for 66 years of not altogether patient waiting with a pulsating victory over the League champions Arsenal at Boundary Park last night . |
| 28 | OLDHAM Athletic , who had not beaten a First Division side since they dropped into the Second Division in 1923 , made up for 66 years of not altogether patient waiting with a pulsating victory over the League champions Arsenal at Boundary Park last night . |
| 29 | This win made up for last year 's defeat by Rob Orme when things just did n't go right for Dunlop . |
| 30 | We , all of us had er a bed-sitting room of our own which we kept on between cases cos we had to have somewhere to live and erm and then of course we , we 'd come back there and make up for lost time really . |