Example sentences of "made up for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It made up for all the poverty and hardship they had suffered , and planted a new , fierce determination in her to make her way in the world , to marry well and make up for all the injustice they had suffered because of her Uncle Harry . |
| 2 | But Pietro made up for all that and for everything else , or so I thought . |
| 3 | United were within thirty minutes of possible relegation … then Joey Beachamp made up for all his earlier misses . |
| 4 | SKIPPER Allan Border hit his highest first-class score of the tour as Australia made up for lost time on a rain-hit day against Warwickshire at Edgbaston . |
| 5 | Then they escorted us to our rooms , where we gratefully made up for lost sleep . |
| 6 | The wife and daughter were usually silent , but Service and I made up for that . |
| 7 | Switzerland made up for 500 years of neutrality by setting about the Canadian team , who were unsportingly thrashing them . |
| 8 | I chose a man who massaged my bruised ego , made up for much of the emotional neglect I 'd suffered and made me laugh a lot . |
| 9 | But Hackney made up for those heart-stopping moments with 100 per cent willingness to try anything and his 200 per cent determination for the team cause . |
| 10 | PIETER Huistra , left out of Rangers ' two past cup final occasions , made up for those past disappointments last night by hitting the crucial equaliser against Bruges in the European Cup . |
| 11 | So it made up for any other , er , you know . |
| 12 | ‘ Good thinking , Princess , ’ he said , with an easy charm that made up for any lack of etiquette . |
| 13 | He had no abilities , but made up for this drawback with sharp elbows . |
| 14 | Fortunately the driver made up for this heresy by roundly cursing the French , whom he disliked for the same reason that most Englishmen do — the way they clutter up the place , never get out of the way and ca n't speak English . |
| 15 | The women made up for this restraint . |
| 16 | The Daily Mirror conceded that the story was ‘ still corny , predictable and thin to the point of malnutrition ’ but believed that the lavish settings , its song-and-dance routines and the cast made up for this and added that Crawford ‘ brings a superb youthful energy to the role of the gawky , naive young clerk ’ . |
| 17 | Having failed English Alevel , five years on he made up for this by getting a first for his thesis and a fine arts degree from Portsmouth Polytechnic . |
| 18 | OLDHAM Athletic , who had never beaten a First Division side since they dropped into the Second Division in 1923 , made up for 66 years of not altogether patient waiting with a pulsating victory over the League champions Arsenal at Boundary Park last night . |
| 19 | OLDHAM Athletic , who had not beaten a First Division side since they dropped into the Second Division in 1923 , made up for 66 years of not altogether patient waiting with a pulsating victory over the League champions Arsenal at Boundary Park last night . |
| 20 | This win made up for last year 's defeat by Rob Orme when things just did n't go right for Dunlop . |