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 | Yet an argument could be made out for Haversian bone being linked with large body-size rather than thermoregulation techniques . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Why do n't we make up for lost time , then , Luke ? |
| 10 | Succeeding in this would make up for previous frustration in attempts to follow Bowen . |
| 11 | Then they escorted us to our rooms , where we gratefully made up for lost sleep . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Some say they 'll take over the children 's education completely as they try to help their youngsters make up for lost time . |
| 15 | The Imperial 's chef , at last let loose in his own kitchen , was making up for lost honour . |
| 16 | Every Londoner seemed to be out of doors : the stall-holders were busy making up for lost trade and the air was thick with savoury smells from taverns and cookshops . |
| 17 | After a century or so of political apathy , Hong Kong 's young people were making up for lost time . |
| 18 | Glaswegian clubbers were a bit slow at first to take advantage of the late opening hours , says Stuart , but are now making up for lost time . |
| 19 | Had she been seduced into conformity by the excellence of the natural history programmes and then , like other late converts he had known , sat captive to virtually every offering as if making up for lost time ? |
| 20 | The 24-year-old was hoping to be a regular England choice , but instead finds himself making up for lost time . |
| 21 | The nun realised that now the child had no one to protect her , some of the other children were making up for lost time . |
| 22 | CANADA 'S 13 Engines , with their considered blend of ominous guitar and vocals and a sometimes lumbering , limbering beat , should have little trouble making up for lost time with this overdue European release of their excellent debut LP . |
| 23 | Nothing like making up for lost time , she thought to herself with relish . |
| 24 | CANADA 'S 13 Engines , with their considered blend of ominous guitar and vocals and a sometimes lumbering , limbering beat , should have little trouble making up for lost time with this overdue European release of their excellent debut LP . |
| 25 | Her tone expressed the warmth that flowed through her heart as she added , looking into his eyes with a smile , ‘ And so that Silvia and I can start making up for lost time . ’ |
| 26 | Meanwhile Keith and Mae are settling down to married life , making up for lost time . |
| 27 | He 's a fifteen month-old making up for lost time . |
| 28 | On the question of job satisfaction making up for low pay relative to other sectors , Serota said he had not found highly paid individuals in the City were markedly unsatisfied in their work . |
| 29 | Opinion surveys suggested , however , that a majority of US citizens felt that reverse discrimination , even on the basis of making up for past wrongs , was unfair , and was a concept associated with the Democrats rather than the Republicans . |
| 30 | The theory is that if museums save on salaries and paper clips they will have more money to spend on works of art ; the reality is that they will almost certainly be saving on the works of art to make up for inadequate funding overall . |