Example sentences of "made the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In 1933 he made the first crossing of the uninhabited interior wilderness of Iceland with a wheeled vehicle — his bicycle . |
| 32 | Tischler made the first microphone for Dame Clara Butt at the Landessender Vienna studios . |
| 33 | He built , to his own design , the steamship Robert Fulton , which made the first successful ocean voyage off the east coast of America , sailing from New York to Havana . |
| 34 | Ray Butts made the first one for his own guitar player , then he took it to Nashville and showed it to Chet Atkins and Chet bought one . |
| 35 | It was Freud who made the first extensive use of hypnosis to probe the depths of the subconscious mind . |
| 36 | A group of veteran kite flyers , led by past-President of the American Kitefliers Association Bevan Brown and his wife Margo , made the first move . |
| 37 | In 1850 , at his quinta ( mansion ) in Sto da Serra , John Blandy made the first butter to be sold commercially in Madeira . |
| 38 | TV MAGICIAN Wayne Dobson has had to buy the family Christmas presents all over again — because thieves made the first lot vanish . |
| 39 | The 18-year-old 's enthusiasm made the first and third chances for Hendrie after 51 and 66 minutes . |
| 40 | On a day that much expensive talent short-changed a dull derby scarred by offside , Strachan made the first two for Leeds and earned an ‘ assist ’ for the third . |
| 41 | Impatient of this , Richard of Gloucester put forward a further suggestion — which made the first seem infinitely preferable ! |
| 42 | Sir Simon Fraser , one of the few veterans , made the first practical proposal . |
| 43 | We came together as a group almost by accident , but there was a convergence of our experiences and a symmetry to our ideas which made the first few months of our existence one of the most stimulating and electrifying of my life . |
| 44 | On Fuar Tholl , Wilson and Niall freed the superb Tholl Gate in good condition at V. On Sgurr a'Chaorachian 's north-west buttresses , the chossy summer line Jupiter , a fine but rarely frozen 1200ft I/V , was climbed by Brian Davison and I. We also climbed Eastern Promise , a very steep but co-operative V on the eastern Ramparts of Coire Mhic Fhearchair and made the first ascent of the West-Central Wall by an even steeper line based on Mistral ( VI ) . |
| 45 | Ben made the first on-sight of Psycho ( ) and followed it up with on-sights of Genesis ( ) , Rainbow Wall ( ) , Your mother , Monument and Anarchiste ( all ) with Mark sharing the honours on Monument . |
| 46 | He was probably the first man to solo 8a on French rock ; made the first winter lone ascent of the South Face of the Aiguille du Fou ( scene of Alan Rouse 's famed injury during an earlier , summer , solo ) and also made one of the most prestigious ascents in the area with his solo of Divine Providence — Patrick Gabarrou 's 1984 desperate on the Grand Pilier d'Angle buttress on Mont Blanc . |
| 47 | Flying from a landing ground at Smoogro he made the first ever landing on the deck of a ship at sea on August 2 , 1917 . |
| 48 | Latzsch , who has played 56 times for her country , made the first goal then got Germany 's winner with a sensational solo effort , after England equalised . |
| 49 | The headmaster made the first speech , flags flew , the town band played a medley of the tunes of the old Ukraine , a hymn was sung . |
| 50 | Scott and a team including Chris Bonington made the first ascent in 1977 ; on the rock ridge of Shivling East Pillar ; Greg Child belayed on Lobsang Spire in the Karakoram — another first ascent for Scott in 1983 . |
| 51 | Two years and a historical event passed before Jack Elliot and Harold Farrington made the first commercial flights in Curtiss Jennies , on March 3 , 1926 . |
| 52 | In 1986 , Sir Ranulph made the first of his four attempts with Dr Michael Stroud to reach the North Pole unsupported . |
| 53 | Simon Patiño also made the first purchases of French eighteenth-century furniture and Old Master paintings by the French School areas in which successive generations , including Jaime Ortiz-Patiño , his grandson , would collect as well . |
| 54 | The exceptionally strong team , which included Mick Fowler — with whom Saunders made the first ascent of the ravishing Golden Pillar of Spantik — Caradog Jones and Steve Sustad , had hoped for an ascent of the mountain 's South East Spur — a 9,000 foot mega-Walker Spur . |
| 55 | Now in his 40s , he made the first solo ascent of Point Young on the Grandes Jorasses in August . |
| 56 | In 1934/35 , Frank Fraser Darling made the first intensive study of deer , and his book A Herd of Red Deer is still a valuable source book . |
| 57 | X landed the Cessna and made the first turnoff to the flying club . |
| 58 | It was James Watt who made the first major improvements to the principles worked out by Newcomen . |
| 59 | It was he who made the first approaches … " |
| 60 | In foreign affairs East-West détente had revived after the rise of Mikhail Gorbachev in Russia and in September 1987 Erich Honecker made the first visit by an East German head of state to West Germany . |