Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] make [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then I must make up for my error . ’ |
| 2 | But do n't worry , I 'll make up for it when I get you home . |
| 3 | If there 's any way I can make up for what 's happened , Mr Calder , then I shall be only too pleased to do it . ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps now she could make up for her crime against society . |
| 5 | Above her head Silas murmured , ‘ I 'll admit I 've been slow — but we 'll make up for it later , my dearest . ’ |
| 6 | Maybe I thought we could make up for all those afternoons . |
| 7 | I 'll be happy if we can make up for our late start by mid-season . ’ |
| 8 | Unfortunately , there have been no social events this year hopefully we can make up for this in nineteen ninety four . |
| 9 | Michael Howard , the employment secretary , was left to make the best of this glum news by telling the TECs ' directors — 1,200 of them , by December 1990 — that they could make up for a shortfall in cash from the Treasury by raising money from the private sector . |
| 10 | I suppose I was conceited enough to imagine that the amount of love I have for her would make up for the deprivations . |
| 11 | Eggs are the perfect protein , containing all eight essential amino acids , so they can make up for any deficiency that may be caused elsewhere . |
| 12 | I urge those on both Front Benches to reflect on how they can make up for that democratic lack . |
| 13 | He 'll make up for it . |
| 14 | Looking more like a bewildered Old English sheepdog than a thwarted child-molester , he throws himself around the place , lying on his back and waggling his feet in the air , as if by an excess of physical effort he could make up for the thinness of the script . |
| 15 | It will make up for the thirty-five minutes you were late . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It will make up for the dismal showing of the England football and cricket teams , lift some of the sporting gloom . |
| 17 | Friends who are very dissimilar may not give the same thing to each other , but what each gives can sometimes be even richer for this : it can make up for the other 's deficits . |