Example sentences of "[noun] makes the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gary Stretch makes the first defence of his British light- middleweight championship against Rochdale 's Derek Wormald at the London Arena tonight , knowing it could lead to a lucrative world title eliminator against Leicester 's Chris Pyatt . |
| 2 | Rebecca makes the last contribution . |
| 3 | Their troubled relationship with Prost notwithstanding , Honda 's successful assault on the bastions of Formula One is admirably chronicled by Christopher Hilton in Conquest of Formula One , although his somewhat hectoring style makes the first few pages something of a battle . |
| 4 | What a pity the kangaroo had been discovered too late for Johnson s Dictionary : Captain Cook makes the first reference to it three years earlier , in his Journal for August 1770 . |
| 5 | George held the phone away from his ear as the man 's phlegmy voice carried on : ‘ This new film makes the last one I sold you look like Noddy and Big Ears in Toytown ! ’ |
| 6 | The vacuum of leadership in the family makes the second element revealed by The Scotsman surveys even more alarming . |
| 7 | CHRIS EUBANK makes the fifth defence of his WBO super-middleweight title since February against Juan Carlos Gimenez of Paraguay tonight — but his real target is Nigel Benn . |
| 8 | Tomorrow night in Manchester , Eubank makes the fourth defence this year of the WBO super-middleweight title when he fights Paraguayan Juan Carlos Gimenez . |