Example sentences of "[noun] made a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its first full financial year , RBIC made a profit of more than £4 million but even better results are promised . |
| 2 | ‘ Not long after , the Athenians made a peace with the Spartans and their allies for thirty years , giving up Nisaia , Pegai , Troizen and Achaia , their possessions in the Peloponnese ’ ( Thuc. i.115.1 ) . |
| 3 | Aged nineteen , never kissed back and greener than Kermit , I was sipping Crème de Menthe in the basement of a jazz club , when an elderly roué ( as in twenty-two ) from the Oxford Union made a pronouncement which made my spine stiffen . |
| 4 | The impresario made a face . |
| 5 | David Macdonald made a series of quota quickies before going on to a larger budget with the striking comedy-thriller This Man is News ( 1938 ) , and Michael Powell built a reputation as a director of energetic quota films before making his mainstream début with Edge of the World ( 1937 ) , about the depopulation of a remote island in the Shetlands . |
| 6 | The computer made a noise that was like crying . |
| 7 | Despite the lack of international judicial uniformity on several important issues , the Hague Rules made a signal contribution to international trade . |
| 8 | TWO alert cops made a drug bust — and seized cannabis plants growing at the POLICE STATION . |
| 9 | Some authorities made a point of saying that they did not have a training programme because they depended on courses that presented themselves , e.g. : ‘ We always hope to send staff on courses as they are advertised ’ . |
| 10 | Two other defenders made a grab for Okoye but missed . |
| 11 | Lucie made a lunge for Gabriel 's wrist and pulled at him . |
| 12 | Mrs Barrantes said in Biarritz : ‘ Sarah made a mistake going to St Tropez with her children and Mr Bryan . |
| 13 | De Villiers made a noise in his throat that sounded suspiciously like smothered laughter . |
| 14 | The porter made a face . |
| 15 | Amitai Etzioni made a study of authority and motivation in differing environments . |
| 16 | Jenny Weston , 34 , claimed Colin Webb made a barrage of unrelenting sexual demands and once pinned her down on a hotel bed . |
| 17 | Kiku made a face . |
| 18 | Mandeville made a face . |
| 19 | Was I supposed to fall in a heap when the great Prince Nicolo Sabatini made a pass at me ? ’ |
| 20 | ( In 1874 , whilst at her favourite residence at Osborne in the Isle of Wight , Queen Victoria made a number of trips to the post office at nearby Whippingham where she would stay for some hours comforting a dying deaf woman , Mrs. Elizabeth Tuffield , nee Groves . |
| 21 | Before the delivery date , the buyer made a sub-contract to sell similar goods at 65s. per ton . |
| 22 | DISNEY shares went into freefall yesterday as its chairman made a £74 million killing on the stock market . |
| 23 | Jessica made a noise to silence her . |
| 24 | Sunderland made a profit of more than £500,000 in the last financial year , which finished with a Wembley final appearance . |
| 25 | Melanie made a vow never to use it herself . |
| 26 | In 1920 , for example , the notoriously rotund producer G. B. Samuelson made a trip to Universal Studios , where he produced six pictures to learn what he could about the American way of doing things . |
| 27 | Exploiting a new device and a new theory , Williamson made a career in science for himself ; and with later work on coal and the plants from which it had come , he made geology also a laboratory subject , involving apparatus for making thin sections , and a microscope . |
| 28 | In 1955 Khrushchev and Bulganin made a visit to Belgrade in an attempt to secure a reconciliation , and the following year a Soviet-Yugoslav communiqué was signed in Moscow which brought the dispute to an end . |
| 29 | After a delicious dinner , Lady Thorneycroft proposed the Loyal Toast , then the Chairman Lady Walters made a speech thanking her team for all their hard work in making the evening such a tremendous success . |
| 30 | The driver made a gesture with his bandaged fingers . |