Example sentences of "make [adv prt] for [pron] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Boomer was a handsome man with a great deal of charm and became the favourite professional of the rich who visited Paris , playing with such luminaries as Sir Philip Sassoon , who rewarded Boomer by having suits made up for him from Savile Row . |
| 5 | But as he was finishing his second pint , and wondering again whether to go up and see one or other of the Mrs Machins , his mind was made up for him . |
| 6 | ‘ Or have his mind made up for him . ’ |
| 7 | Some spoilsports did n't turn up with a teddy , but others more than made up for them . |
| 8 | I did n't make up my mind , it was made up for me . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I know , it 's just been made up for her is it not ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I was woken up in the night sometimes , the spare bed in my room being made up for someone they 'd met down the Club , the other lodger 's room already occupied . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But , if Graham 's career with Palace as a player was never crowned with great success his later time with us as Manager certainly made up for it . |
| 15 | The care and attention he received was first class throughout his stay and although he missed out on a family Christmas at home , the staff more than made up for it and he was showered with extra presents which helped to speed his recovery . |
| 16 | If Winterbottom had not played much hard rugby with Headingley , then he more than made up for it in those few short months . |
| 17 | ‘ If you were , you 've certainly made up for it since . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | His knowledge of the Bible was minimal but he soon made up for it . |
| 20 | To her disappointment , she had not been able to find a Château La Tour Monchauzet vintage on the wine-list , but the half-bottle of Côtes de Bergerac that she chose instead more than made up for it . |
| 21 | He lacked fire or animation but his wife more than made up for his apathy and weakness . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Not a real law of course , but a rule Carrie had made up for herself and had stuck to , until she forgot it today . |
| 24 | I let my wife buy Harris and Cheviot lengths for winter when she 's in London , but I never allow her to have them made up for herself . |
| 25 | A better case can be made out for its subject being Salmo salar : the Atlantic salmon , than for Orpheus ! |
| 26 | ‘ When the time comes that will make up for everything . ’ |
| 27 | In September 1989 the Libyan news agency JANA said that Italy could make up for its " wrongdoing " during the colonial period-particularly the deportation to Italy between 1911 and 1942 of some 5,000 Libyans as forced labour-by speedily paying the compensation demanded by Libya , which regarded as inadequate a settlement of dollars 6,700 million reached in 1956 . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | April 's pursuing compensation though no amount of mony can make up for what she 's lost . |
| 30 | Perhaps now she could make up for her crime against society . |