Example sentences of "making [num] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jaguar is only making 350 of the cars . |
| 2 | In his first innings since breaking his finger while making 141 on the opening day of the championship season , Moxon graced a bitterly cold Acklam Park with a splendid knock of 117 against Somerset . |
| 3 | He did this by making three of the sentences , each for 14 years , run consecutively instead of concurrently . |
| 4 | He streaked the junior men 's event with a distance of 57.18 metres and showed his worth by finishing third to Great Britain 's Paul Head in the senior men 's section , making 52.54 with the heavier hammer . |
| 5 | In the old popular court , the suitors declared the law and gave judgement , or else passed judgement over to God by making one of the parties submit to an ordeal : to being thrown into a pool , for instance , or made to grasp a red-hot iron ; if he sank , or was soon healed , he was innocent ; otherwise , he was guilty . |
| 6 | When people of different generations decide to live together , because the older of the two is in need of care , they are making one of the major decisions of their lives . |
| 7 | Yet , Levine , who died in July 1987 , aged 81 , could not have realised that he was making one of the best investments of his life . |
| 8 | In a couple of minutes I had lost any chance of kinship with Sue by making one of the most basic mistakes . |
| 9 | Thus Warltire was very close to making one of the great chemical discoveries of the late eighteenth century , that water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen . |
| 10 | Now , after the acclaimed New Jack City , Ricochet is the second step in Ice-T 's master plan to unceremoniously usurp Eddie Murphy as black America 's biggest film star and clean up in Hollywood the way he 's cleaned up in rap : staying hip with his street following and making millions from the masses at the same time . |