Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , the arch US soap ( which started in '78 ) reached a peak of public mania , and made the Nine O'Clock News . |
| 2 | George had got the deposit ready for a house and made the first down payment on a dining suite . |
| 3 | They are searching for passengers who made the first ever trip with them to Jersey 40 years ago . |
| 4 | They are searching for passengers who made the first ever trip with them to Jersey 40 years ago . |
| 5 | The catalogue constitutes the first ever monograph on the artist . |
| 6 | MADAME PIA DE BRANTES-PEARSON became the first ever client for dear friend Christian Lacroix 's fledgling couture house when she married the impossibly handsome Christopher Pearson in July 1987 wearing Lacroix 's shell pink taffeta meringue . |
| 7 | Dr Who fan Gavin Fuller , 24 , last night became the youngest ever champion of Mastermind . |
| 8 | At 22 , Val became the youngest ever ward sister at London 's Middlesex Hospital . |
| 9 | Conductor and orchestra have had a long and fruitful association — starting in 1963 when David Atherton became the youngest ever conductor at the BBC Proms in London . |
| 10 | Scotland also produced the first ever court case in which a sign language interpreter was used , as well as a remarkable heroine in Charlotte Bain . |
| 11 | ‘ Look , I 'm leaving at teatime — catching the eight o'clock flight . ’ |
| 12 | Today my brother and I were catching the 7.00 am aeroplane from Newcastle to Corfu . |
| 13 | If you 're gon na separate chemically , say for example , you produced erm an organic acid which is optically active the things you would normally have to do is to use a base to make the salt of , you know , you make the two optically salt and then separate them by a thing such as fractional crystallisation and then we generate the acid afterwards very very tricky ! |
| 14 | He planned to catch the 6 pm flight back to Munich . |
| 15 | Barbara has won countless glamorous grandmother contests since becoming the first ever winner of the Widnes title in 1977 . |
| 16 | Barbara has won countless Glamorous Grandmother contests since becoming the first ever winner of the Widnes title in 1977 . |
| 17 | The connection time was very tight and there were some weeks when I rarely caught the 7 o'clock bus to Ferryhill and had to wait for the 7.15am bus which takes a longer route and delayed my arrival even more . |
| 18 | Müller got to the airport and caught the seven o'clock flight home . |
| 19 | The RSPCA says the Bill invoked the biggest ever response from the British public to any of its campaigns , with nearly 20,000 contacts on the special phoneline . |
| 20 | put the four o'clock news on and we might . |
| 21 | Seventy years later , the magic mix of high rewards , low outlay and supposed skill in judging football results , continues unchanged ; except , of course , that punters can now win £1.5 million instead of the modest £2 12s that comprised the first ever dividend . |
| 22 | he sat up last night , he sat up last night we was gon na watch the ten o'clock movie on telly with me . |
| 23 | Customs officers at Dover have made the biggest ever heroin seizure in Britain ; it 's sixty kilos with a street value of ten million pounds . |
| 24 | Fortunately , we had no time to feel sorry for ourselves because an early morning ferry journey took us to Nevis where we played the current Leeward Island champions . |
| 25 | if you watch the news , watch the nine o'clock news tonight and try and sift out how many things you could put into a negative pile and how many you could put into a positive pile and I think that you would find that the negative pile |
| 26 | Apparently , too , Mrs Noble was becoming dubious about the friendship with Edward and the consequences that might follow the hasty pell-mell nature of her second daughter . |
| 27 | It was felt that the seven-member Organization of Eastern Caribbean States ( OECS ) , embracing the three Leeward island states ( Antigua and Barbuda , Montserrat , and St Kitts and Nevis ) as well as the four Windwards , was more US-oriented and less capable of performing this new role . |
| 28 | This year it 's Oxford 's Elizabeth Chick verses the oldest ever competitor , Andrew Probert … who demonstrates the wisdom of his thirty-eight years . |
| 29 | Our first ‘ find ’ was Earle Kelly , a bewhiskered and rusty-voiced newsman from the Daily Province , who was engaged to read the 9 o'clock news . |
| 30 | Later , she watched the Nine o'clock News , shut the dogs in the kennels . |