Example sentences of "made a [adj] start " in BNC.
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| 1 | United made a marvellous start , scoring after six minutes , but the goal was costly as well as precious . |
| 2 | ROBERT Dunlop made a marvellous start to today 's North West 200 when he scored an easy win in the 250cc race , even though the contest was spoiled somewhat when two of the favourites Jim Courtney and especially Phillip McCallen fell off . |
| 3 | West Indies made a good start and with 132 for 3 at lunch looked ready to blossom . |
| 4 | Randall and Brearley made a good start , Gower and Willey pressed on well , and at the end of fifty overs they were on 211 . |
| 5 | Fowler and Andy Lloyd made a good start , Gower chipped in well , and the rest of the batsmen did enough to see England home by three wickets . |
| 6 | Leeds made a good start in defence of their men 's title when Stephen Akers won the 1500m freestyle in 15min 37.77sec . |
| 7 | The following year he beat both Sergio Casal and Emilio Sanchez in a 4–1 victory over Spain at Telford and said : ‘ I made a good start in the Cup so the first few matches will always stick in my mind . ’ |
| 8 | Confronted with India 's massive 560 , England made a good start reaching 157 for one . |
| 9 | Australia made a good start and we were a bit behind the eighth ball after |
| 10 | THE selectors made a serious start to the job of digging English cricket out of its present hole by bringing four virtual newcomers to Old Trafford despite the resounding defeat . |
| 11 | Derry made a disappointing start — keeper Dermot O'Neill dropped Tommy Byrne 's harmless cross after five minutes , and Tony O'Connor could n't believe his luck as he lobbed the ball into the unprotected goal . |
| 12 | Joanne Conway , who is hoping to become the first woman for more than 20 years to win five successive titles , made a strong start at the Skate Electic British championships in Basingstoke . |
| 13 | On a day which saw the All-Ireland side go down to England 16-2 , Curran made a strong start in her under 18 confrontation with Kate Warne-Holland . |
| 14 | He added : ‘ I made a tremendous start to the year and badly wanted that No 1 spot for the first time but it made me become negative . |
| 15 | Horsham soon found themselves a goal behind as Abingdon made a tremendous start ; Town won a corner on the left wing in the second minute and Keith Appleton killed the ball into the area . |
| 16 | The 32-years-old Runcorn train driver made a sluggish start from a peg in the centre of the bund bank before locating a shoal of feeding skimmer bream at midwater . |
| 17 | Richardson , too , made a mediocre start being one over par for his first six holes , but then birdies at the seventh , ninth and 10th moved him on to the leaderboard . |
| 18 | All-Ireland Under-21 champions Tyrone made a convincing start to the defence of their crown when they overwhelmed a poor Monaghan side at Omagh yesterday . |
| 19 | Wasps are prepared to sacrifice the mobility which Gary Holmes and Paddy Dunston provided when Rendall and Probyn , the England props , made a delayed start to the season after taking part in the World XV tour to South Africa . |
| 20 | Despite qualifying sixth , the Reynard driver made a superb start and was in second place by the first corner , taking the lead from Gianni Morbidelli 's Lola by the end of the lap . |
| 21 | There , Emerson made a superb start but got caught in traffic at the first left-hander . |
| 22 | By now it was near the close on the third day ; Gooch and Boycott made a confident start , but much of the Monday was lost to rain and the game was then abandoned on the last afternoon with almost ten hours having been lost . |
| 23 | He made a useful start in helping his club to victory in the Cardiff High School Old Boys Sevens where they beat a Nationwide VII 40–14 in the final . |
| 24 | Put in , south Africa — who rested Donald , Henry and the injured Rhodes — made a useful start , the openers putting on 54 before Hudson departed in the 18th over . |
| 25 | Shares made a poor start to the account . |
| 26 | Prost on pole made a poor start and Senna took the early lead , holding it for 23 laps before Prost , after several previous attacks had been rebuffed , forced his way by . |
| 27 | Short made a terrible start in game one when , playing black , he tried the dubious Budapest gambit in an attempt to catch Karpov off guard . |
| 28 | Probably they made a nice start to a meal , too . |
| 29 | Gooch and Curtis made a solid start and the deficit was passed for the loss of just one wicket . |
| 30 | Doyle said : ‘ Stephen made a brilliant start to the season but then we started to receive death threats in early September . |