Example sentences of "making [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must first thank you and your colleagues at the Centre for Continuing Education for making my first trip across the Atlantic and to Montreal such an enjoyable and useful one . |
| 2 | I was making my first inroads into a superb specimen of the amber fluid when Sally walked in . |
| 3 | So , in that respect I find , I mean I 'm , I 'm just gon na be making my first monthly pay packet and I do n't know how I 'm gon na manage . |
| 4 | ‘ I was nervous and I was not making my first serves . |
| 5 | To 1967 , I 'd add another year , an equivalent point of take-off — 1979 ( punk energy making its first altercations with black dance production , dub and funk , its first trysts with electronics , its first stabs at multi-media performance ) . |
| 6 | It is not faith going a second mile ; it is faith making its first full step and there is no going back . |
| 7 | The combination of a massively-expanded market for Ecstasy and a shortage of supply has led to Ketamine making its first appearance on the British black market . |
| 8 | The Museum is rich in exhibits , ranging from a classic car collection ( most of which are on loan from their owners ) , to the Sultan of Oman 's personal VC–10 airliner , built by Vickers at Brooklands , making its first take-off on October 17 , 1964 and flying back to make its last landing there on July 6 , 1987 . |
| 9 | The investigation team considered that this fault reoccurred and that this may have account for the aircraft making its first approach toward the built-up area of Basle to the east of the airport . |
| 10 | Human culture , which at this period was making its first faltering steps towards thorough-going agriculturalism and the full-scale Neolithic Revolution which it was to bring in its train , seems to have found the loss of the ur-mother of the primal hunting and gathering society hard to get over . |
| 11 | Kayersbridge Farm in Hurst , Berkshire , was making its second appearance at auction : auctioneer Gary Murphy had sold it in December for £262,000 to a bidder who failed to come up with the money . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , it is biding its time before making its next jump to Microsoft Corp Windows NT . |
| 13 | Now the car is making its third circuit . |
| 14 | By the time the next issue of FlyPast hits the magazine shelves the Vulcan will be making its last appearances as a flying exhibit . |
| 15 | ( At Lasham I estimated about 1 in 400 people making their first glider flights were very sensitive to low ‘ g ’ . ) |
| 16 | Matthew Ridge , a full-back of Anglo-Armenian parentage and astonishing gifts , and centre Craig Innes are among those making their first impressions . |
| 17 | They are unlikely to find easy pickings at Hillsborough , Wednesday having just won at Forest and with King and Sheridan making their first home appearances . |
| 18 | The Irish , making their first appearance in the World Cup finals , could have hoped if not for something better then at least something different . |
| 19 | Lancing , who surprised themselves and everyone else by making their first appearance in the Halford Hewitt Cup final against the winners , Shrewsbury , last April , will raise a few more eyebrows if they do half as well this time . |
| 20 | Another highlight will be the Chilean Air Force 's Halcones aerobatic team making their first British tour since they exchanged their Pittses for Extra 300s . |
| 21 | And maybe somebody would come to your door and say their wee boy or their girl was making their first communion , and they were in dire straights and could n't buy anything for them , and you would more or less have to give them your book to help them out , but you would go with them so that they did n't go over the score and get just exactly what that wain needed , you know , and just hope that they had enough money to pay you at the end of the quarter , you know . |
| 22 | Adelaida points out the different groups : the ‘ grandmothers ’ , who sit in the sun spinning and chatting ; the ‘ complete illiterates ’ , mostly older Aymara women who are making their first letters with painstaking care ; the ’ functional illiterates ’ who have had some schooling and progress more rapidly ; and the groups which practise their recently acquired literacy skills using materials on health and nutrition . |
| 23 | These servicemen are making their first ever jumps ; vital training that might have been sabotaged by the £40m fire at the country 's parachute headquarters at RAF Hullavington . |
| 24 | It happened as the world-famous Falcons skydiving team were making their first display jump of the season , watched by more than two hundred schoolchildren . |
| 25 | The Russians , as opposed to Soviets are making their first appearance at Henley . |
| 26 | Sgt. Bamberger then spotted four more coming down out of the sun ( these were likely to have been four of the original six , making their second swoop ) . |
| 27 | Watt 's Nine Men ( 1943 ) depicts a group of soldiers making their last stand in a desert hut , which has a dramatic intensity that pushes it to the edge of documentary fiction . |
| 28 | Making his 17th successive appearance since replacing Henry Smith in December , Walker was voted man of the match , which was mainly thanks to a fingertip save from a Michael O'Neill shot in the first half and a crucial stop which denied Paddy Connolly with only ten minutes remaining . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , Marshall Coleman is making his second attempt to become governor of Virginia . |
| 30 | Meanwhile at 1130 eight more Hurricanes had taken off from Takali , Sgt. Deacon included , making his second sortie of the day in P3978 . |