Example sentences of "[verb] up for [adj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe I thought we could make up for all those afternoons . |
| 2 | But Pietro made up for all that and for everything else , or so I thought . |
| 3 | I mean they all ought to be geared up for all this for Christ 's sake . |
| 4 | Well I 'm staying up for one more game |
| 5 | He was due to read his own poems , but he prefaced the performance with remarking how extraordinary he found it that students obliged to attend lectures should want to turn up for more such talk after hours . |
| 6 | After a Bible reading , usually by the headmaster , Mr Herbert Dennis , mornings consisted of six lesson periods , interrupted by a break during which the students queued up for two half slices of bread known as ‘ geordie . ’ |
| 7 | Maybe this was my chance to make up for all those little oversights and lapses in the past , which we all have no matter how hard we try to forget or overlook them . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm going to make up for all those nights apart . |