Example sentences of "make [adv prt] for their " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | The money will help offset big medical bills , but the brothers say it still does n't make up for their suffering . |
| 5 | Huddersfield made up for their failure in the Cup by winning the League Championship in the next season , 1923–4 . |
| 6 | We were watching the tufted ducks which made up for their late appearance this season by arriving in more than usual strength . |
| 7 | She also thinks that men tend to choose women who make up for their own shortcomings . |
| 8 | None of the group is especially common as fossils , but they make up for their general rarity by their interest . |
| 9 | Many of these conglomerates also defy industrial logic ( or , if not , make up for their inefficiencies by dominating and manipulating markets ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Drawing on the verbal and musical skills of comedians and other performers who were established in theatre and the music hall , filmmakers were able to make up for their failure to develop indigenous styles of visual comedy , and to produce relatively cheap pictures that enjoyed genuine popularity . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 … |
| 14 | These people have always Done Things in previous lives , perhaps to make up for their rather undistinguished efforts while being alive and in their own bodies . |
| 15 | 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 . |