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make amends
1. Her husband was not impressed when she eventually returned home minus the shopping trolley, without any money and too scared to make amends for her failings by popping down to the off-licence for him
2. In Virgenia's Jools and Robbie were in good spirits and seemed to think I should accept Mercouri's apology, make amends and forget it - after all he was just a bit drunk
3. He’s cooked for the woman, for Christ's sake, pleading guilty, under house arrest, but he loves her and he wants to make amends
4. He wasn’t getting any younger and he needed to make amends before it was too late
5. She had been meaning to make amends with Caroline for months
6. Please, give me a chance to make amends,” said Ethan, sounding genuinely sincere
7. There was no way to make amends
8. 3 "But these forty three days cannot make amends for the hour in which you did transgress My commandment
9. 16 And he shall make amends for the harm that he has done in the holy thing, and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it to the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him
10. He is eager to make amends for his late great-uncle King Sorrin’s crimes on behalf of Zarkog’s conspiracy
11. I told her in that case, Mother is precisely whom she will have to approach in order to arrange the meeting, and that she can invite her guides, particularly White Eagle, and we will see if she’s allowed to make amends
12. have the possibility to make amends for it, by recognizing it as something
13. but we don’t have the ability to make amends for our offenses
14. A prisoner is given adequate time to think over their crime and make amends or choose a new direction in life
15. wanted to live, wanted a chance to make amends with Michael;
16. The past will continue to haunt you if you do not recognise your mistakes and make amends for them
17. When the psychiatrist told him that it was not too late to make amends and pay
18. While justice cannot bring back the deceased in murder cases it might be more important to have the perpetrator try to make amends to the victim’s family by working him in prison and taking moneys from his wages there to pay the family, crime victim compensation, rather than just have him serve time as a punishment (retribution)
19. ” She did not fully believe in Mary-Anne’s God but she felt the older woman’s plea to make amends before it was too late was simply common sense based on bitter experience
20. I would make international apologies for interdicting electrical and water and sewer facilities wherever we did on the hunt for bad guys in any homes in these war zones at any time during our assault on their lands, and I would offer lots of goats by commanders personally to people in villages where civilian population was hurt (or make amends otherwise suitable to the people injured)
21. Is there any way in which I can make amends for our gross insensitivity? He frowns deeply, but his expression stays just as stoic, still with the same hint of contempt
22. However, the Brahmans, as though to make amends for the sins of their forefathers, strived hard to clear the social debris that Brahmanism had left on the Indian soil
23. ‘I think you should try to make amends with her
24. She attempted to make amends
25. He was showing an interest in affairs of state and wanted to be there when Bradford was forced to make amends
26. Lawrence in order to make amends for the destructionby Spanish artillery of a church that bore his name
27. Cookham with the intention of trying to make amends, he was just going to say something amiable when she startled him by suddenly exclaiming, "I really don't understand how men can bring themselves to do such dreadful
28. Since then there had been no intercourse with Glambeck, and the Baroness did not know of the satisfactory turn things had taken at the parsonage till on Christmas Eve, from her gallery in church to which she and the Baron had decided to return on the greater festivals as a mark of their awareness that Herr Dremmel desired to make amends, she beheld during the drawn-out verses of the chorale Ingeborg drop sideways on the seat in her pew below and remain motionless and bunched up, her hymn-book pushed crooked on the desk in front of her, and her attitude one of complete indifference to appearances
29. Tussie tried to make amends for having obstructed her plans by exerting himself to the utmost to entertain the children as far as decorum allowed
30. As for Emma, she was hunted out by that detective who travelled down into Somersetshire with the fugitives and who had already been so useful to the Prince; and Priscilla, desperately anxious to make amends wherever she could, took her into her own household, watching over her herself, seeing to it that no word of what she had done was ever blown about among the crowd of idle tongues, and she ended, I believe, by marrying a lacquey,--one of those splendid persons with white silk calves who were so precious in the sight of Annalise
31. Trying to recover and make amends for the slip so as not to cause further offence Nikko rushed on: “What I mean is you’re so different
32. "You have chosen your fates, and only your blood will make amends! Oblivion take you!"
33. When Karl returned to England, he was going to turn up at Peter’s house, and for better or for worse try to make amends with the lad
34. It is the author’s emphatic and unequivocal belief that there comes a time in everyone’s life where we all have a chance to make amends in this life, to start afresh, to put behind us any suffering we have caused others, to move on and begin a new life in relational acceptance, love, compassion and reconciliation
35. But also for people who for some reason are unable to make the real changes, that are unable to live in and with relational love, compassion and reconciliation, so there will be a time when everyone has a chance to make amends when face to face with ‘God’ the Creator
36. at ease with my fellows and determined to make amends
37. • They could become remorseful and see the error of their ways, try to make amends with family and friends, and try to resolve to either never drink again or to seriously check the amount of alcohol consumed – New Year's resolutions abound but very few are pursued for more than a few days / weeks
38. If it wos so, which I still don't say it is (for I will not prewaricate to you, sir), let that there boy keep his father's place, and take care of his mother; don't blow upon that boy's father--do not do it, sir--and let that father go into the line of the reg'lar diggin', and make amends for what he would have undug--if it wos so--by diggin' of 'em in with a will, and with conwictions respectin' the futur' keepin' of 'em safe
39. "Dear Edward!" she cried, "this is a moment of great happiness!--This would almost make amends for every thing?"
40. As far as I can see, it will be your chief diversion hereafter; unless Linton make amends for other losses: and your provident parent appears to fancy he may
41. That noon he sat down to dinner with us, and received a heaped-up plate from my hands, as if he intended to make amends for previous fasting
42. Carruthers, I think that you have done what you could to make amends for your share in an evil plot
43. Ladislaw, to make amends for the deprivation which befell your mother
44. Then I gave him a last choice and a fair one: to renounce both Mordor and his private schemes, and make amends by helping
45. I told Joe all of that, and I did my best to make amends
46. “So I thought ahead and prepared a peace offering, a little gift to make amends for my doubts about you
47. Rochester is so talented and so lively in society, that I believe he is a general favourite: the ladies are very fond of him; though you would not think his appearance calculated to recommend him particularly in their eyes: but I suppose his acquirements and abilities, perhaps his wealth and good blood, make amends for any little fault of look
48. As for any society in Portsmouth, that could at all make amends for deficiencies at home, there were none within the circle of her father’s and mother’s acquaintance to afford her the smallest satisfaction: she saw nobody in whose favour she could wish to overcome her own shyness and reserve
49. They afforded her no companion that could make amends for what she had left behind, nor that could teach her to think of Norland with less regret than ever
50. As for any society in Portsmouth, that could at all make amends for deficiencies at home, there were none within the circle of her father's and mother's acquaintance to afford her the smallest satisfaction: she saw nobody in whose favour she could wish to overcome her own shyness and reserve