Example sentences of "make [num] " in BNC.

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1 He and Greenidge made 119 in 27 overs , and although Richards went near the end for 65 Greenidge remained unbeaten on 98 .
2 Well , if we make fifty quid it 'll pay the fifty quid for the transporter costs wo n't it ?
3 Pick up that phone and make fifty calls .
4 He made eight consecutive pars , missing putts of 6ft and 4ft for birdies at the second and sixth respectively , before a bogey at the ninth gave him an outward half of 37 and took him back to level par overall .
5 We can compare this with a similar attempt made eight years later by Stubbs ( 1983 ) , who distinguishes four main areas of language which teachers should know about if they are to be able to make informed decisions about language problems at school :
6 That made eight .
7 The Chief of Staff of the Air Force , Vice-Marshal Momtazuddin Ahmed , confirmed publicly for the first time on May 10 the claim made eight days earlier by the head of the opposition Awami League Sheikh Hasina Wajed that there had been extensive damage to the country 's small fleet of aircraft .
8 Between June 1958 and December 1960 he made eight trips to Algeria .
9 Police in Foxboro , Massachusetts made eight arrests for drunken and disorderly behaviour after last week 's England-US game .
10 Moore made eight Under-23 appearances and his full debut was in 1962 against Peru .
11 Betty Boop made eight cars ?
12 We made eight fifty that 's a hundred down but Joyce said their fare was a hundred down as well .
13 She cut in on a station wagon , forcing the driver to brake heavily , then made fifty yards on the hard shoulder .
14 Oh yes , oh yes yes erm and I 'm on about er on about , for one thing , but you 'd be surprised er it 's the biggest and most elaborate trade of any in the world , locks and keys , I say that very firmly because er there 's no limit , there 's no extent and you , there might be required anything and as I say er I er I had these locks for the asylums and that , you know and er I thought I mentioned it before , I made fifty fifty locks all different and I had to number them and keep a record of them and er I had a , you had the keys on a wire , numbered one up to fifty and they was for big , big asylums , you know what I mean and er they could go in one ward , I 'm on about places where they 'd have twenty or thirty people , you know and er there 's only one bloke could get in there .
15 And I had to make all these er computations out and er I made fifty that I thought nobody could pick .
16 Police made fifty arrests , mostly on drugs charges , but say that for most of the time , all they could do was watch .
17 The true theory of the Nicol prism was not clearly understood even by its inventor , but in a neglected paper by Edward Sang the mathematical theory is given completely for the first time ; this also contains a suggestion , made forty-seven years later by M. E. Bertrand in the Comptes Rendus , that a polarizer might be constructed of two glass prisms separated by a suitably placed thin layer of Iceland spar .
18 Lamb made 75 but there was little from anyone else , and the tourists won by 104 runs .
19 However , aided by an outrageous fluke in frame four from which he made 75 , Parrott levelled at 2-2 .
20 Alikhan made 963 at 31 , and is likely to start the season as Bicknell 's opening partner .
21 If I had an order for thirty-six I 'd make thirty-seven , you know what I mean .
22 The company , due to its limited capacity , can only make 4,444 additional units .
23 Smith , opening the innings , made 74 from only 53 deliveries in the first hour of the day , striking two sixes and 13 fours , before retiring to give someone else some practice .
24 David Jackson made 74 and Tony Gray 55 for the losers , while Ian Renshaw top scored with 51 not out for the winners .
25 With Kallicharran , who made 97 , he put on 303 for the third wicket , with some wonderful strokes all round the wicket that culminated in 36 runs off his last 13 balls before holing out on the boundary .
26 Brian Rose was brought in for his first home Test and promised he would attack the bowling ; he was as good as his word and made 70 , but 33 from Gatting was the only other contribution as the last seven wickets went for 24 in fifty-two minutes .
27 He made 70 1st Division appearances for us — during that time our defence was usually under considerable pressure , most of the matches were tense affairs , and the strain on the captain was that much greater .
28 Dale Baker and David Gibson are now key players in Bright 's new look side , both made 70 's .
29 yeah if you manage to buy two things before I make eleven thousand you 've beat me .
30 The visitors made 91–9 and Newtown spin bowler Keith Harding took 7 wickets for 41 .
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