Example sentences of "have make [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this , of the great poet-critics of the past the one he most nearly resembles is Dryden , whose criticism virtually always comes before us as the preface to a volume of original imaginative writing — including translations which , in this too like Pound , Dryden considers no less ‘ original ’ than poems he has made up for himself . |
| 2 | Jomeo is endearingly accident-prone and forever unsuccessful with females ; Gigi , by contrast , is wildly popular with the opposite sex and has made up for her childlessness by becoming a universal aunt to other females ' babies . |
| 3 | They may not have found quite the soulmate in each other that they had been looking for , but their relationship has made up for it in other ways . |
| 4 | We go through the dozen or so photograph albums that Christine has made up for her , and Anna points out her grown-up ‘ sisters ’ , Christine and Sarah-Jane ; she also names her nieces and nephews for me . |
| 5 | I wondered briefly what a British nursing sister would have said , but the act of motherly comfort may well have made up for the lack of quiet during the day . |
| 6 | and these would have made up for some of the others perhaps won for them by Lloyd George . |
| 7 | And that means a reason right there on the spot , otherwise , once out of sight , he 'd simply have made off for wherever it was he wanted to be . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , she will have to make up for it afterwards ! |
| 9 | Emotional maturation is arrested during the active phase of addictive disease and therefore the counsellor who is in recovery will need to have made up for this lost time for emotional development . |
| 10 | Well let's say we 've made up for it , for you may have no doubt whom to thank for your performance at the court . |
| 11 | One evening at Pack Meeting Beegee , which was the name the Pack had made up for their Guider out of the initial letters B and G of Brownie Guider , told the Brownies that the County Girl Guides ' Fete was to be held in a few weeks ' time in Morley Park and that the 3rd Shortfields Pack must think what to do to help make the fete a huge success . |
| 12 | Of course , since his release , he had made up for lost time , becoming quite a wheel in the charity game , but those two years had stayed with him . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Not a real law of course , but a rule Carrie had made up for herself and had stuck to , until she forgot it today . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I had to make up for the ravages of time . |
| 17 | They looked into one another 's eyes , and kissed with a great tenderness , as though they had to make up for the anger last time . |
| 18 | What Stars & Stripes , which has the oldest America 's Cup class hull still racing , has lacked in pace , her crew have made up for in guile . |