Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] make [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | April 's pursuing compensation though no amount of mony can make up for what she 's lost . |
| 3 | When the vicar got a new bishop who was Anglo-Catholic he appealed to him for his sanction , in the hope that the bishop 's approval would make up for the lack of faculty . |
| 4 | Come on , Miss Williams , you 're not so naïve that you honestly believe that a mere apology will make up for the way you behaved . ’ |
| 5 | No amount of brilliance can make up for knowledge of the idiom of the field . |
| 6 | But even that conciliatory gesture never really convinced me that Don Bradman 's signature could make up for that of Jack Hobbs . |
| 7 | ‘ I think perhaps the bike will make up for the Brownies , ’ Daddy confided to Mummy . |
| 8 | ‘ Winning the ABA this year will make up for losing the chance of a lifetime of going to the Olympics , ’ said Calzaghe , 20 . |
| 9 | There 's no way money can make up for losing all that ’ . |
| 10 | Believing , as fervently as they say they believe in their Almighty , that money can make up for anything , even bad taste and bad manners . |