Example sentences of "make [adv prt] for [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been a couple of days before it dawned on him : they were the full-size versions of the houses and station buildings he and his father had made up for their never-quite-finished model railway layout . |
| 2 | The Mourne boss is determined that his side will make up for their semi-final defeat by Derry last year but refuses to embrace this as an additional spur in his motivating process . |
| 3 | I 'll be happy if we can make up for our late start by mid-season . ’ |
| 4 | We were watching the tufted ducks which made up for their late appearance this season by arriving in more than usual strength . |
| 5 | When he smiled , the warmth in his eyes , so stunning for being so unexpected , made up for his cranky disposition , his overwhelming pomposity . |
| 6 | Such remarks made up for our embarrassing waits . |
| 7 | None of the group is especially common as fossils , but they make up for their general rarity by their interest . |
| 8 | It was to salve her conscience , she thought , and make up for her obsessional preoccupation with Nick Frazer . |
| 9 | I had an MXR Distortion Plus and an MXR Blue Box ( a prehistoric harmonizer making up for its dodgy tracking with an intriguing wobbly sound and some rather excellent white noise — Ed ) . |
| 10 | For the FA Cup Finalists to go down Sunderland would have to lose their last three matches , with Oxford winning their final game at Tranmere and making up for their inferior goal difference , Plymouth and Newcastle also winning , and Grimsby getting at least a draw . |
| 11 | For a long time KFW has been promoting in particular the small and medium scale sector of the economy , i.e. it grants loans at favourable interest rates to small and medium sized enterprises to make up for their specific financing disadvantages … |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The mathematics master obviously intended to make up for his long silence during the earlier part of the term . |
| 15 | Trying to make up for his misspent youth . |
| 16 | I travelled back to Athens , partly in order to make up for my ignominious run in the European Indoor there in 1985 . |
| 17 | Tell you what , I 'll buy you a cup of coffee to make up for my bad temper before . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It makes up for his small penis , ’ points out Rob . |
| 19 | ‘ It makes up for his small penis , ’ points out Rob . |