Example sentences of "[noun prp] made the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Good manners demanding it , Luce made the formal introduction , adding perforce , ‘ Mr and Mrs Cook are staying in the same hotel . ’
2 And the Union made the expected noises about not appointing a forensic scientist .
3 It did n't take much anaesthetic to render the exhausted patient unconscious , and , as Sophie made the first incision , she put aside her dislike of being critically watched by her professional rival and concentrated on her life-saving task .
4 Durham County champion Craig Kilgour made the first steps towards his comeback last weekend when he was among a number of county players who took part in a coaching session held by English Golf Union coach Bill Ferguson .
5 Takeshiba-O made the early pace followed by the two American horses Czar Alexander and Fort Marcy , while Piggott was content to keep Sir Ivor well covered up at the back of the field with La Lagune .
6 Swinburne read Greek and took English metric in hand ; Rossetti brought in the Italian primitives ; Fitzgerald made the only good poem of the time that has gone to the PeoPle ; it is called , and is to a great extent , a translation or mistranslation .
7 To begin with , people thought that electric charges could be arbitrarily big or small , but Faraday made the crucial step of showing that charged atoms , or ions , are always associated with a fixed amount of charge or some multiple thereof , suggesting atoms of electric charge .
8 With Marlboro 's backing , McLaren made the right decision : Hunt could continue to be himself .
9 The Norwegian biologist Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe made the first important observations on dominance , in the 1920s .
10 ALAN KELLY made the crucial penalty shoot-out save that crowned Sheffield United 's FA Cup fightback against Blackburn and clinched their first semi-final for 32 years .
11 After Simmons stabbed at a lifter from Bosch and was caught off the shoulder of the bat in the gully in the fourth over , Snell made the vital breaks , removing Haynes and , first ball after tea , Richardson .
12 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 .
13 Leaders Sunderland made the short trip to Seaham and things looked close at half time as they nosed in front 19–14 .
14 Scott and a team including Chris Bonington made the first ascent in 1977 ; on the rock ridge of Shivling East Pillar ; Greg Child belayed on Lobsang Spire in the Karakoram — another first ascent for Scott in 1983 .
15 Shoe shop owner Nick Dando and his wife Melanie made the gruesome find while taking their daughters on a nature ramble in remote woodland .
16 When W. S. Rockstro made the first thorough-going attempt at a life of Handel in 1883 , he had before him a list of no fewer than 53 likenesses made during the composer 's lifetime .
17 Danish star Torben Piechnik , who will complete a £500,000 move to Anfield today from FC Copenhagen , had hardly settled into his seat before Stewart made the vital early breakthrough in the fourth minute .
18 During a period of pitiful loneliness and depression , Marinello made the ill-advised decision to compromise his skills and try to win his way back into the Arsenal first team as an auxiliary midfield player rather than an avaricious dribbler .
19 In October Gen. Dmitri Yazov made the first visit to the USA by a Soviet Defence Minister , at the invitation of US Defence Secretary Dick Cheney .
20 Repton made the same point in his Sketches and Hints of 1794 : ‘ To improve the scenery of country and to display its native beauties with advantage is an art which originated in England . ’
21 In 1974 Hawking made the astonishing discovery that black holes , previously regarded simply as absorbers of radiation , do in fact themselves radiate .
22 And as soon as his own net duties were over on Tuesday and yesterday , Ian made the short trip to Derby to spectate .
23 In 1555 Primož Trubar made the first translation of the New Testament into Slovene and in 1584 a Slovene grammar was produced .
24 The unit 's subsequent successes in Italy , France , and Germany made the postwar renaissance of the SAS , as a permanent part of the British defence forces , that much easier to achieve .
25 Ben made the first on-sight of Psycho ( ) and followed it up with on-sights of Genesis ( ) , Rainbow Wall ( ) , Your mother , Monument and Anarchiste ( all ) with Mark sharing the honours on Monument .
26 ‘ Are you all right ? ’ he demanded , and Maria made the shocked discovery that the mere sound of his voice could still make her pulses leap and race , and her heart clench with love and longing .
27 Controlling the way her image was seen around the world ensured that Kylie made the most of her success as her face became familiar all across the globe .
28 Toney made the last day and the final two rounds , and I was on my way .
29 Andy Kiwomya 's pace caused them all sorts of trouble as Dundee made the early running .
30 On the same day , Andy Popp made the fourth ascent of the scary Never Never Land , E6 6b .
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