Example sentences of "[adv] make up the [noun pl] " 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 | I 'm not just going along to make up the numbers , ’ says Adams-Robinson . |
| 3 | The inspiring influence behind an automatic promotion triumph is determined Boro will not just make up the numbers in the top flight . |
| 4 | Mothers were encouraged to give solids at a very early age and bottle feeding was predominant , with mothers incorrectly making up the feeds . |
| 5 | At the moment I am just making up the numbers . |
| 6 | It 's just to make up the numbers , really . |
| 7 | ‘ We are not talking about someone who is going to Barcelona just to make up the numbers . |
| 8 | All the rest of us are just here to make up the numbers . ’ |