Example sentences of "[vb past] made [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just because she 'd made one mistake … |
| 2 | She got a lodger and she , the lodger said she 'd made five phone calls . |
| 3 | They 'd made thirty-five pence last year , she said , which was considered good . |
| 4 | The Special Task Force had made 102 arrests in the city . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Ajayi arrived , seemingly deposited on one of the castle 's high , flat , rubble-strewn roofs one night , when Quiss had made eighty-three scratches . |
| 10 | With 609 results declared by 4am , Labour had made 44 gains , well short of the advance needed to win power . |
| 11 | Zack had made eight calls in thirteen days — the ninth was about to come in . |
| 12 | Her son had made 10 months ' progress in a year , against his usual six months before he started at Lady Jane Grey . |
| 13 | 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 " . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The police had made one mistake too many in this case and would be given no further opportunities to demonstrate their incompetence . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The assassin had made two attempts upon her life . |
| 23 | They had made two attempts to bomb United States military trains in Lower Saxony in 1987 and 1988 . |
| 24 | The court heard Demeke had made two demands : that the plane fly to New York and that he receive political asylum in the United States . |
| 25 | The Inspectorate had made two prosecutions since April this year , and has another 10 prosecutions " in the pipeline " , the report claimed . |
| 26 | On May 6 the government announced that the security forces had made 28 arrests in foiling plans by the Islamic Jihad group to bomb police stations in Cairo and Jizah . |
| 27 | On 1 June 1988 the Department of Employment ( DoE ) reported that during 1987–88 DoE staff had made 396,200 investigations , leading to 80,000 people withdrawing their claims to benefit ( Unemployment Bulletin 1988 ) saving 55 million in the year . |
| 28 | By then , he had made three albums for Virgin , all of which had sold in enormous quantities , but the contract which he signed in 1972 had not been reviewed . |
| 29 | The blond , six-foot-two , eyes-of-blue actor , born on 29 December , 1938 in Yonkers , New York , had made three films previously ( all in 1967 ) — Hour of the Gun ( a bit-part ) , and two low-budget movies , Fearless Frank and Out of It . |
| 30 | In the year which ended with my twenty-first birthday , I had made twenty-nine parachute jumps , been arrested , spent a month on bail , been in hospital twice , stabbed in the face once , and spent over two thirds of my days with the Territorials . |