Example sentences of "make up 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 | Wright had made up for his 99 at Christchurch by pulling Lawrence joyously for successive boundaries to reach three figures , and Jones , having scored his first Test century against England , looked hungry for more . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 'll be happy if we can make up for our late start by mid-season . ’ |
| 5 | We were watching the tufted ducks which made up for their late appearance this season by arriving in more than usual strength . |
| 6 | When he smiled , the warmth in his eyes , so stunning for being so unexpected , made up for his cranky disposition , his overwhelming pomposity . |
| 7 | Jose-Maria Olazabal finished on a better note with a 70 and was five under par for the last three rounds , which partially made up for his first round of 76 . |
| 8 | He let go her hands , and made up for his earlier error by making a fuss of the dog , who was sitting on his own blanket , adding laughingly , ‘ Even Hector is obliged to take notice of it , I see . ’ |
| 9 | Le Tissier made up for his earlier error after 72 minutes when he crashed home a 30-yard a left-foot volley but his team could find no way back . |
| 10 | Such remarks made up for our embarrassing waits . |
| 11 | None of the group is especially common as fossils , but they make up for their general rarity by their interest . |
| 12 | She also thinks that men tend to choose women who make up for their own shortcomings . |
| 13 | It was to salve her conscience , she thought , and make up for her obsessional preoccupation with Nick Frazer . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Les Robinson came as close as he could to making up for his own goal , but it was n't Oxford 's day . |
| 17 | The producer did finally arrive about half an hour into the party , and he scurried around meeting everyone , making up for his earlier absence . |
| 18 | Yet it may be bad for other firms , even sound ones , since lenders will become increasingly wary , and may charge higher interest rates overall to make up for their higher risks . |
| 19 | 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 … |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The Georgian side is trying to smear the Russian armed forces to make up for its own errors , ’ he said . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Comfort 's anguished determination to make up for her earlier coldness made her far more interfering than Annunziata , whose calm gentleness provided the only moments of real respite for Julia . |
| 24 | The mathematics master obviously intended to make up for his long silence during the earlier part of the term . |
| 25 | Trying to make up for his misspent youth . |
| 26 | Taken to extremes , it will cause the person who feels inadequate to become a workaholic , compelling him to take on more and more in order to make up for his own shortcomings . |
| 27 | I travelled back to Athens , partly in order to make up for my ignominious run in the European Indoor there in 1985 . |
| 28 | Tell you what , I 'll buy you a cup of coffee to make up for my bad temper before . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ It makes up for his small penis , ’ points out Rob . |
| 30 | ‘ It makes up for his small penis , ’ points out Rob . |