Example sentences of "the [noun sg] to make [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I promised to buy shares in the brewery to make up for it . |
2 | Turnell rates the seven-year-old the sort to make up into Hennessy Gold Cup material next year . |
3 | All the judges can do is award a greater proportion of non pension assets to the wife to make up for her lack of long term security and if these other assets are small , the husband is still the winner . |
4 | ROD WALLACE last night pleaded for the chance to make up for his England heartache , writes John Edwards . |
5 | Such good management involves proper drainage , maintenance of a neutral pH , a balance between grazing and cutting , mixed stocking , controlled grazing and resting , the avoidance of physical damage ( particularly in bad weather ) , and the return of organic matter to the soil to make up for hay or silage removed . |
6 | They watched enthralled and motionless as a window-catch in the shape of a hook jiggled in the wind , and then flew open , letting in Hook the abductor to make off with Peter Pan 's two children . |
7 | This is the time to make up for the imprecision of the life story in Step 1 . |