Example sentences of "[verb] make the [num ord] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to the third instalment on the Cuyp , the national gallery has made the first instalment on a Cranage painting . |
| 2 | In later years he was once asked whether he , who was shy , was anguished when forced to go out visiting homes in Liverpool and to try to make the first touch with a strange family . |
| 3 | It was in this way that Galle came to make the first sighting of the planet now known as Neptune . |
| 4 | Because of the need to keep premiums in line with claims we have reluctantly had to make the first increase in our basic BUILDINGS rate for many years . |
| 5 | On Friday , Sept 13 , Seb Grieve made the first ascent of the outstanding rib right of Dangerous Crocodile Snoggin at Ramshaw . |
| 6 | Present day rent free periods can be up to a year or even longer , and the tenant will not wish to make the first payment of rent on the date of the lease where the Rent Commencement Date is 12 months hence . |
| 7 | He explained that there never had been a bottle of perfume , but he had made the first call in front of his wife who was now quite happy because she thought her husband had merely left her birthday present behind , not , as he had actually done , completely forgotten her birthday . |
| 8 | Professor Andrew Lyne and two colleagues , Matthew Bailes and Setnam Shemar , astronomers from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom , announced in the British science journal Nature of July 24 that they had made the first discovery of a planet orbiting a star outside the solar system . |
| 9 | Truman had made the first move in South-East Asia at the time of the Korean War , sending financial and other aid to the French government , by then engaged in a desperate attempt to maintain their control of Indo-China . |
| 10 | Yordan Mutafchiev , had made the first visit to China by a Bulgarian Defence Minister in 30 years . |
| 11 | Jackson 's 1957 paper had made the first study of muon catalysed fusion in mixtures of deuterium and tritium but had concluded that there too the energy return did not offer much practical hope . |
| 12 | The garden has been planned to make the last amount of work for those who maintain it : John himself ; his father , who is now 80 and can work for only short periods ; Mr Broughton , who clips the hedges , and Patricia who weeds . |
| 13 | For , once we have made the first approach to the Landshut Virgin and acquired a first set of impressions , the changeableness of the figure begins to work on us further , now less in the dimension of greater or lesser distance and more in the angle of view . |
| 14 | DESPITE consistently pool weather and a frightening episode in which they were avalanched in their tents , two members of a british expedition have made the first ascent of the South Face of Thalay Sagar , one of the most attempted and failed on mountains in the Indian Charwal Hamalayas . |
| 15 | Once you have made the first step towards finding out more about archaeology , it is likely that you will never turn back . |
| 16 | ARSENAL have made the first move towards landing Everton 's Martin Keown in a £2.5 million deal . |
| 17 | In doing this , we need to make the first block of colours an odd number of rows in length , 1 , 3 , 5 , 7 , 9 and so on . |