Example sentences of "[adv] to make up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On several tables draped with white oil-cloth reposed the battered and bloody remains of what was left of five Chinese bodies , and Fred Peavy , the mortician-embalmer , was apparently trying to piece them together to make up the contents of five plain wooden coffins . |
| 2 | Over the years two streams have perpetually flowed together to make up the story of this congregation . |
| 3 | In order to explain this excess radiation additional inputs of energy to Jupiter from beyond the planet have been considered , but none seem anywhere near large enough to make up the difference . |
| 4 | It 's just to make up the numbers , really . |
| 5 | ‘ We are not talking about someone who is going to Barcelona just to make up the numbers . |
| 6 | Sue says she 's beaten all the players above her in the world rankings and will have to work harder to make up the difference . |
| 7 | All the rest of us are just here to make up the numbers . ’ |