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

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1 But there was no semblance of a fluke about the result — it was the fastest Gold Cup ever run — and as Norton 's Coin made the long walk past the stands to the winner 's enclosure he started to receive the reception he deserved .
2 Good manners demanding it , Luce made the formal introduction , adding perforce , ‘ Mr and Mrs Cook are staying in the same hotel . ’
3 And the Union made the expected noises about not appointing a forensic scientist .
4 All summer English cricket has been highly suspicious about how the Pakistanis made the old ball swing about so violently .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 With Marlboro 's backing , McLaren made the right decision : Hunt could continue to be himself .
10 The bravery of men swimming ashore in these pioneer beach reconnaissances is beyond question , and knowing Norman Teacher as a friend , as well as being his CO , the Commander feels there is a strong probability that the young Lieutenant made the supreme sacrifice in swimming to his death rather than risking his capture , as others , too , may have done .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Leaders Sunderland made the short trip to Seaham and things looked close at half time as they nosed in front 19–14 .
15 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 .
16 Shoe shop owner Nick Dando and his wife Melanie made the gruesome find while taking their daughters on a nature ramble in remote woodland .
17 She was rehomed , but the story made the front page of the local Sunday paper .
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 the early stages both Pat Eddery on Dancing Brave and Gary Moore on Bering held up their mounts towards the rear , but had improved to the middle of the pack as the field made the downhill run towards the straight .
20 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 .
21 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 . ’
22 The Times made the suggested link their front-page headline — Porn videos turned ‘ Fox ’ into rapist — while the Daily Mail used this theme in their editorial of the day , as part of their continuing campaign against porn videos .
23 Chola reached up to the arch above the doorway add seven times made the same imprint with the pad of her thumb on to seven discs of semi-dried cow-dung .
24 In 1974 Hawking made the astonishing discovery that black holes , previously regarded simply as absorbers of radiation , do in fact themselves radiate .
25 And as soon as his own net duties were over on Tuesday and yesterday , Ian made the short trip to Derby to spectate .
26 In 1555 Primož Trubar made the first translation of the New Testament into Slovene and in 1584 a Slovene grammar was produced .
27 Words came into my ears and my fingers made the appropriate movements .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 ‘ 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 .
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