Example sentences of "[pers pn] made [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 At this time still a regular smoker , I made one film which made me drastically change my views about it .
2 I made one stipulation only to the Foreign Secretary , Sir Alec Douglas-Home , which was that my driver should not be the same amiable young man who had led me such a dance around Johannesburg .
3 I made one speech on the subject and I 've not referred to it since , and there seems no purpose in doing so . ’
4 I made two attempts but they both failed , each time my fear of water proved too much .
5 I made two attempts .
6 I made two ruler from Tufnol ( 24x1–1/2x1/2in ) , then joined them with two brass strips , allowing about 1 in of play between the rulers .
7 E/A kept on steady course at about 220mph until attacked , when he dived down to sea level at about 250–280pmh [ sic ] and I made two attacks one at 16000 when E/A took slight evasive action by executing gentle turns .
8 I made four locks for the gates on Lord 's cricket ground er and when I 'm telling you this , and practically without exception , they must 've er got to know me and they come for what they wanted .
9 Could n't really tell you what it was now , but I made four locks for Lord 's cricket ground .
10 They 'd got ta be secure as you could imagine and er not easily picked , if you follow what I mean and er yes , made I made four locks for Lord 's cricket ground .
11 The vow I made four years ago that someday I would go on the Boards .
12 I made 27 calls to Central Office , of which the best was the last .
13 In my first year as Beattie I made eighteen commercials .
14 Anyway , in the end I made 1,800 pesos on the funeral .
15 She made two journeys up it , muttering to herself : ‘ It 's the last thing I do for the nigger .
16 When the kettle boiled , she made two cups of instant coffee .
17 It 's a three-day Congress er and what we do in our Guild , we have , we had a house party on a Tuesday night and she 's told me she made twenty-six Pounds and erm we , we send our , our delegate Congress with that money you see , er because you see , er women would not if you could n't say you could sponsor them .
18 She made 2 complaints to the review panel .
19 She made three journeys , he made one .
20 She made three trips , each time carrying a pair of heavy jugs which she emptied into a small copper hip bath : and each time increasingly aware of and responding to the gauntlet of Hope 's lust .
21 Mexico 's first woman director , she made three features from 1948 — 1951 before production conditions forced her to turn to making shorts .
22 Okay and you made six sets of
23 You made two mistakes .
24 We made two mistakes which cost us dearly .
25 And we made two cars one big and one small .
26 We made two sales last year at around four times the highest price paid for Chadwick at auction .
27 ‘ We always boasted that we made 29 films with one script — now we have made 30 , ’ laughs Peter , 78 .
28 Ooh we made three garlands last year , we 've got two garlands left , we 'll not bother .
29 Back in January 1980 we made ten predictions about the decade ahead — and offered free resubscription forms to all readers if we scored less than five out of ten .
30 As Richard and I chronicled in our ‘ book of the ads ’ You Got an Ology ? ’ in the first two-week shoot we made ten commercials .
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