Example sentences of "[adv] to make up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the years two streams have perpetually flowed together to make up the story of this congregation . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Arncliff folk were so poor — the meagre belongings of all twenty-seven totalling no more than £9. 7s. 4d. — that when the subsidy came to be levied , Robert Selson and William Prysche , with 20s. apiece , John Knolles ( 26s. 8d. ) , and Thomas and Leonard Atkynson ( 10s. each ) were selected as if at random and assessed at £2 each ; although the first two also enjoyed tiny incomes from land , it is to be hoped that some at least of their neighbours chipped in to make up the shilling due from each . |
| 4 | Then we would fling ourselves upon each other at all hours of the day and night make love upon the unmade bed , for often we refused to let the maid in to make up the room : |
| 5 | I 'm not just going along to make up the numbers , ’ says Adams-Robinson . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It 's just to make up the numbers , really . |
| 8 | ‘ We are not talking about someone who is going to Barcelona just to make up the numbers . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | All the rest of us are just here to make up the numbers . ’ |
| 11 | The DSS said last week local authorities would be expected to negotiate with home owners on how to make up the gap in funding for residents who have to be away from the home for more than six days . |