Example sentences of "[pers pn] made the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She never knew which one of them made the first move , but suddenly , unaccountably , she was in his arms , his hands pressing against her back to draw her closer still . |
| 2 | Latter and I made the second ascent of Fer de Lance on sight , confirming the E6 6b grade . |
| 3 | She made the first breach in my armourplating of male superiority . |
| 4 | On March 23 she made the first appointments to a new government . |
| 5 | Then , with Dawn keeping careful watch on Sandy 's breathing , Sophie took up a scalpel , and , after one long moment of hesitation , she made the first incision . |
| 6 | On the following flights you position the final turn and approach relative to where you made the last one , i.e. if you kept too close and landed rather far into the field on the first landing , you will move back more on the next , remembering the positioning of the previous flight . |
| 7 | We made the first free-jazz record , with no plan , just improvised . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Their cattle are finished : they made the last batch of bread with oxblood to save what 's left of the water , and they drink that mixed with wine , of which there is n't all that much , either . |
| 10 | And then , he made the first of his mistakes . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In 1933 he made the first crossing of the uninhabited interior wilderness of Iceland with a wheeled vehicle — his bicycle . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Now in his 40s , he made the first solo ascent of Point Young on the Grandes Jorasses in August . |
| 15 | Cody was largely responsible for the engine installation of the airship which flew in 1907 , and he designed and constructed the machine on which he made the first powered aeroplane flight in Great Britain on 16 October 1908 . |
| 16 | He made the first recording of the human electrocardiogram in 1887 , an important advance which , in other hands , had widespread applications in medicine . |
| 17 | Pérez escaped from his residence just before it was surrounded , and went to a private television station from which he made the first of four broadcasts to the nation repudiating the coup . |
| 18 | He made the first goal with a delightful , a dazzling run . |
| 19 | A pronouncement which proved to be news to his own personnel department when he made the first anguished inquiries . |
| 20 | Oh well it er General , he made the first road . |
| 21 | In 1910 he made the last of his great journeys across China , travelling from Honan in Central China to Russian Turkestan , a distance of 3,750 miles in 174 days . |
| 22 | He made the last of his 51 appearances against Scotland in 1984 . |