Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] up the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her pleading frail voice went straight to my heart every time , and quite often I would crack her more than a few eggs to make up the dozen . |
| 2 | Following this brief , Whitaker had gone ahead commissioning a crop of four part stories to make up the twelve shows needed to keep Doctor Who on air for forty-eight weeks — one year in BBC terms , allowing for Christmas , sports events and other potential breaks . |
| 3 | That the 25 groups making up the 15 000 hunter-gatherers of the Philippine Negritos practise minor desultory cultivation and intensive trading with non-Negrito agriculturists is not recent as has often been argued , for eighteenth-century reports indicate trade of forest products for rice , tobacco , metal tools , beads and pots , as well as shifting cultivation by the 1740s at the latest . |
| 4 | Sixteen races made up the 1986 championship . |
| 5 | So you are doing six hours to make up the four . |