Example sentences of "make [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | After 400 yds , just before ridge rises , bear half left down off ridge : soon lake and outdoor centre passed at start of walk are seen below — make down for right-hand end of lake . |
| 2 | I had the kitchen made over for Joan . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The smaller number of A and C allowances was more than made up for by the greater number of B and D allowances . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Palin may not have travelled much as a young man , but he has now made up for lost time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But she had insisted , and although the room was warm , and the kitchen stove had already been made up for the night , I had gone — yet it was a strange experience to me , and rather a frightening one , to have been persuaded by someone near to me into doing even so small a thing I felt to be hazardous . ) |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Much of the farming was fairly traditional but the premium received from quality products often made up for lack of weight in calves and lambs . |
| 13 | Thus conservation has become a much more difficult and demanding area , but this has been made up for by an improvement in the scientific knowledge now available to the conservator . |
| 14 | This more than made up for the Tramway Department 's loss of revenue resulting from the suspension of the service ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In August Chapman signed his former half-back George Hampson from Northampton , and although his previous visit to Northampton had failed to secure Walden — he went to Tottenham in April for £1,750 — the developing form of Bainbridge at outside-right more than made up for the disappointment . |
| 17 | Dunne , Chapman 's last attempt to find a successor to Lambert , proved to be past his best , but Drake more than made up for lost time , scoring 42 League goals in 1934–5 , a club record for a single season . |
| 18 | Unfortunately for them Palace injuries prevented the other two players from making any more than token contributions to our promotion hopes of the late 1920s and early 1930s , but Tom Crilly , a full-back by profession , more than made up for those disappointments . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Objectively , Karen was prepared to go almost as far as her predecessor , and her eager greed more than made up for the thrill I used to get from subjecting dogged , cow-like Manuela to the same routines . |
| 22 | He lacked fire or animation but his wife more than made up for his apathy and weakness . |
| 23 | But , in spite of the Royal Navy , Jones , after a voyage to be described later , sailed safely back to France , where his reception more than made up for the much cooler one he had received after his ‘ Whitehaven ’ cruise 18 months before . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | There had never been a great deal of money , but no one had ever gone hungry and the feelings of warmth and love between the members of the family had more than made up for the lack of luxuries . |
| 26 | Trading down helped the firm grab business from smaller operators and more than made up for falling sales of its classier Gainsborough furniture in the six months to end September . |
| 27 | The cost is more than made up for by the fact that virtually no man-hours are lost through strike action . |
| 28 | In time , beach reconnaissance would become a scientific study of landing areas and their immediate hinterland — the littoral across which Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott 's men would lead raiders and the van of invasions , guiding the landing craft crews with marker canoes and other devices that in part at least made up for these flotillas ' limited experience of coastal navigation . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I did n't make up my mind , it was made up for me . |