Example sentences of "made the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back on the white(ish) stuff , John Welford made the second ascent of Simon Nadin 's 1987 testpiece Gonads giving it F8a+ , and then red-pointed Out of my Tree at Raven Tor as a warm down . |
| 2 | It would be far too glib to suggest that he consciously made the second change , to adopt Christianity , merely to give himself an excuse to abandon sexual relations with Mrs Moore , whatever the nature of those relations had been . |
| 3 | Indeed it was this economic growth which made the Second Empire so important for 19th- and even 20th-century France . |
| 4 | The 20-year-old lightweight , from manager Peter Reid 's home town of Liverpool , scored the first , made the second and was always trouble for Leeds . |
| 5 | Also here Nick Sellars and I respectively made the second and third ascents of Peter Gomersall 's outrageously steep Showtime , thinking the grade to be hard F8a+ . |
| 6 | The following day Lord Francis Douglas , who was to die later that week on the first ascent of the Matterhorn , made the second ascent , accompanied by Peter Taugwalder , the guide , Joseph Vian . |
| 7 | Latter and I made the second ascent of Fer de Lance on sight , confirming the E6 6b grade . |
| 8 | His rebuke to the Congress , that " if this leadership is to succeed , it must have the men it wants " , effectively made the second vote on Yanayev a vote of confidence in Gorbachev , and Yanayev was then elected by 1,237 votes to 563 . |
| 9 | And then made the second just before half-time . |
| 10 | Bridge lengths vary from three to four rigs on the Leine to an average ten rigs on the Weser and really , given the practised excellence of the crews , this last thirty-one-rig bridge of Exercise Neptune 's Gallop 1989 should not have aroused much emotion , but it did made the thirtieth of June a little bit different . |
| 11 | This indenture made the 12th daye of June , the 20th yere of the Rayne of Kynge Harry the 8th . |
| 12 | Undaunted , he returned a week later and made the first clean ascent . |
| 13 | A Frenchman , E.A. Martel , made the first descent of Gaping Gill nearly a hundred years ago in 23 minutes using caving ladders ; the petrol-driven winch drops visitors in less than 90 seconds ! |
| 14 | We made the first free-jazz record , with no plan , just improvised . |
| 15 | She made the first breach in my armourplating of male superiority . |
| 16 | George had got the deposit ready for a house and made the first down payment on a dining suite . |
| 17 | ATORY MP yesterday made the first admission that the Government does not know whether children from poorer backgrounds will be put off higher education by the introduction of top-up loans , writes Celia Weston . |
| 18 | And then , he made the first of his mistakes . |
| 19 | Karajan 's response to Honegger 's Symphonie liturgique and its near contemporary , Strauss 's Metamorphosen , of which he made the first recording in 1947 , provides specifically musical evidence of Karajan 's priorities and allegiances that I have yet to see considered by those who have become so concerned to analyse and recycle often erroneous information about his alleged political sympathies before and during the Second World War . |
| 20 | We survived the Thirties and the war , we sold successfully up to 1987 ( a flourish of porcelain animals and birds sold out 90 per cent before the opening party , immediately after Black Monday in the City ) ; even in 1991 we had secured a collection which made the first half of the year look profitable . |
| 21 | Lenihan , 32 , who made the first of his 52 international appearances against Australia in 1981 , missed all of last season 's Five Nations programme after an operation to repair damage to his neck . |
| 22 | Lenihan , 32 , who made the first of his 52 international appearances against Australia in 1981 , missed all of last season 's Five Nations programme after undergoing an operation to repair damage to his neck . |
| 23 | Altogether they were to spend 15 months in the English capital and late in April they made the first of three visits ( the others were in May and October ) to the court of King George III and Queen Charlotte . |
| 24 | I was there the night that Madame made the first move in what I now see was a careful campaign to prepare Boy for this romance or meeting . |
| 25 | It must have been towards the end of 1920 that Lord Darlington made the first of a number of trips to Berlin himself , and I can remember the profound effect it had on him . |
| 26 | It was Geoff Yeadon and Oliver Statham who made the first connection in the jigsaw , 12 years ago . |
| 27 | The Celtic player Davie Hay and the late Hibernian full back Erich Schaedler made the first brave attempt , but they chose a defective boat and capsized almost immediately . |
| 28 | In 1836 a Professor James Forbes made the first recorded ascent of Sgurr nan Gillean with Duncan MacIntyre , a local forester , as guide . |
| 29 | And in 1923 the company made the first published record by a reigning British monarch , King George V and Queen Mary 's ‘ Empire Day Message to the Boys and Girls of the British Empire ’ ( 34 ) . |
| 30 | Johannes Hevelius , a prosperous brewer of Danzig ( now Gdansk ) , made the first attempts to name the lunar features on his map of 1647 . |