Example sentences of "[noun prp] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Lucie made a lunge for Gabriel 's wrist and pulled at him . |
| 5 | Mrs Barrantes said in Biarritz : ‘ Sarah made a mistake going to St Tropez with her children and Mr Bryan . |
| 6 | De Villiers made a noise in his throat that sounded suspiciously like smothered laughter . |
| 7 | Amitai Etzioni made a study of authority and motivation in differing environments . |
| 8 | Jenny Weston , 34 , claimed Colin Webb made a barrage of unrelenting sexual demands and once pinned her down on a hotel bed . |
| 9 | Kiku made a face . |
| 10 | Mandeville made a face . |
| 11 | Was I supposed to fall in a heap when the great Prince Nicolo Sabatini made a pass at me ? ’ |
| 12 | ( 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 . |
| 13 | Jessica made a noise to silence her . |
| 14 | Sunderland made a profit of more than £500,000 in the last financial year , which finished with a Wembley final appearance . |
| 15 | Melanie made a vow never to use it herself . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Patrick made a study of a Glasgow gang : |
| 21 | A man called Slade made a statement that he had seen Cooper twice in London on the day of the murder , indeed had had a cup of tea with him in a café . |
| 22 | Two weeks before the transfer deadline , and in a desperate bid to clinch Manchester United 's first Championship in 25 years , Ferguson made a call to David Pleat at Luton , where Chelsea striker Harford was playing at the time . |
| 23 | ‘ The MCC made a profit of £568,000 last year , it had administrative expenses of £2.2 million which included Pounds 47,000 spent on ‘ hospitality ’ — now they begrudge us the paltry sum of Pounds 17,000 for a worthy cause for the good of cricket . |
| 24 | Lukic made a couple of brave and decisve dives to feet ( I do n't think he 'd have done that last season ) |
| 25 | Gaskell made a distinction between intercourse before marriage in agricultural areas , when marriage is tacitly understood as coming later , and the promiscuity of the town , which he condemned , but in fact there was probably little difference , as we shall see . |
| 26 | Mrs Baggley made a moue of distaste . |
| 27 | Davy and then Faraday turned out to be brilliant lecturers , holding large audiences for courses on scientific topics , each lecture being illustrated by experiments , often of a spectacular kind : Davy made a model volcano filled with potassium , and poured water into it ; and Faraday flung the fire irons and then the coal-scuttle to a large electromagnet overhead . |
| 28 | C'zinsit made a face . |
| 29 | Tranmere made a lightning start with Aldridge firing wide in the first 60 seconds . |
| 30 | Chris Tavaré made a double-century before being caught . |