Example sentences of "[vb past] make [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gray also reported making three sales ‘ three times as many as I made last year ’ . |
| 2 | Just because she 'd made one mistake … |
| 3 | She got a lodger and she , the lodger said she 'd made five phone calls . |
| 4 | They 'd made thirty-five pence last year , she said , which was considered good . |
| 5 | ‘ On reporting , ’ he recalled , ‘ I was given a piece of steel ( distorted ) , a hacksaw , a file and a square and told to make two sides square , which I quickly did . ’ |
| 6 | Equally important are economies of scope : big firms can use the materials and processes employed to make one product in the manufacture of related goods , as Japan 's consumer-electronics companies did in the 1970s , using the same factories that had previously churned out cheap transistor radios to manufacture televisions and videos . |
| 7 | But she did make one request . |
| 8 | He did make one slip , of course — referring to Kemijärvi . |
| 9 | But she did make two purchases from the hat and the dress departments with the money which J. D. O'Conner had given her for the two articles which she had written for him . |
| 10 | Superficially , the rich countries appeared to make two concessions to the UNCTAD complaint of inequality in international trade . |
| 11 | The Special Task Force had made 102 arrests in the city . |
| 12 | The squatters had made four bedrooms out of it , keeping the kitchen at the back , and a pretty basic bathroom tacked on to that , as communal areas . |
| 13 | Seve , who had made four trips to the course during its construction , completed the tough par-73 course in 75 but announced himself satisfied with the lay-out . |
| 14 | Bob went on from there , season in , season out , to the end of 1931–32 , by which time he had made 293 League appearances for Crystal Palace ( a club record at the time , but of course they did not make much of such things in those days ) and even today , almost 60 years later , there are fewer than only half a dozen Palace men who have played more times for us than that . |
| 15 | Another officer , Lieutenant-Commander Milner Gibson RN who led in crash boats on the raid near Boulogne in 1940 , had made nine reconnaissances in the three weeks before that raid , going ashore alone probably in a dinghy . |
| 16 | Ajayi arrived , seemingly deposited on one of the castle 's high , flat , rubble-strewn roofs one night , when Quiss had made eighty-three scratches . |
| 17 | With 609 results declared by 4am , Labour had made 44 gains , well short of the advance needed to win power . |
| 18 | Zack had made eight calls in thirteen days — the ninth was about to come in . |
| 19 | Her son had made 10 months ' progress in a year , against his usual six months before he started at Lady Jane Grey . |
| 20 | For the first time since the process of unification began it placed a question mark over the future of Kohl , who had made 14 campaign appearances and admitted that the result represented a " bitter defeat " . |
| 21 | Pressure for his removal had come from trade unions ; Pérez had made 3,000 workers redundant and had failed to improve on the three to four hours of electricity the country received daily . |
| 22 | The police had made one mistake too many in this case and would be given no further opportunities to demonstrate their incompetence . |
| 23 | BROTHER CADFAEL had made one journey to the hamlet of Preston in search of the young man Aldhelm , only to find that he was away in the riverside fields of the manor of Upton , busy with the lambing , for the season had been complicated by having to retrieve some of the ewes in haste from the rising water , and the shepherds were working all the hours of the day . |
| 24 | They had made one album , which had failed , partly , it was felt within the company , because they had thrown away the chance of a prestigious tour , supporting Talking Heads , by their novel plan to simply switch on their machines and tape-recorders and then sit in the auditorium with the audience and watch the show themselves . |
| 25 | Jinny had made one attempt to say something to the boy , but Doyle stopped her immediately , catching hold of her chin and jerking her head away . |
| 26 | ‘ So , by the time he had made one broom the floor of the hut was covered in bits of twigs , and he had to use the broom he 'd just made to sweep the floor of his hut clean before he could start making the next broom . |
| 27 | So Waqar , with this old , old ball , under cloud cover , had taken 5 for 13 in 38 balls , and with Munton pad-batting Mushtaq , England 's last six batsmen had made two runs between them , and the last eight wickets had dropped for a mere 28 runs . |
| 28 | Prior to their purchase of the building , the owner of the adjoining mill house had made two attempts to obtain permission from the local authority to change the use of the mill from industrial premises into a dwelling , but it was only with the current owners ' application of 1977 that planning permission for this change was granted . |
| 29 | The assassin had made two attempts upon her life . |
| 30 | They had made two attempts to bomb United States military trains in Lower Saxony in 1987 and 1988 . |