Example sentences of "[noun sg] and made the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It opened its mouth and made the special noise of that animal . |
| 2 | Nothing daunted , the mourners moved over to one side and made the most of this grand reunion . |
| 3 | They called police and an officer climbed up the fire escape and made the grim discovery . |
| 4 | When Cawthorne was mentioned by name she put her forefinger and thumb together in a circle and made the universal sign for self-abuse . |
| 5 | He became so identified with us that he was the perfect penitent and made the perfect confession to the Father for us . |
| 6 | It is perhaps worth mentioning and passing on through SMT that the Partnership Sub Committee of the National Committee discussed this at their first meeting and made the following points ( reflected in the Minute of SCAC 19th March 1991 ) . |
| 7 | While the councillors felt it appropriate that the Church Hall should be put to some use they objected to the proposal for a function room and made the following points : |
| 8 | In reply , Nicky threw back his head and made the dreadful noise again . |
| 9 | Abraham got the bounce of the ball and made the most of it with a cracking shot . |
| 10 | A good number of fabliaux advise the husband simply to accept his inferiority to his wife and to allow her to continue to keep the passage of the world smooth ; at the end of Le Chevalier a la robe vermeille , " The Knight with the scarlet robe " , a husband who has surprised his wife and made the compromising discovery of her lover 's horse and robe is hoodwinked by her , and the tale concludes : ( But he who keeps to the right path should believe fully , without dispute , everything that his wife tells him . ) |
| 11 | Ferdinand was ruthless in victory and made the Bohemian kingship hereditary in the House of Habsburg . |
| 12 | On Fuar Tholl , Wilson and Niall freed the superb Tholl Gate in good condition at V. On Sgurr a'Chaorachian 's north-west buttresses , the chossy summer line Jupiter , a fine but rarely frozen 1200ft I/V , was climbed by Brian Davison and I. We also climbed Eastern Promise , a very steep but co-operative V on the eastern Ramparts of Coire Mhic Fhearchair and made the first ascent of the West-Central Wall by an even steeper line based on Mistral ( VI ) . |
| 13 | Kalm was an excellent observer , a meticulous recorder and made the most of his time at the Physic Garden , which he judged to rival those of Paris and Leyden at the time , and believed it to ‘ overgo them in North American plants ’ . |
| 14 | Wedgwood Quality Circles facilitator Joyce Edwards is the current chairman of the society and made the welcoming address . |
| 15 | This bull did irreparable harm to the Catholic cause in England ; coming too late to assist the Northern rising , which had already collapsed by the time it was issued , in the long term it equated Catholicism closely with treason and made the recusant community the object of deepening fear and suspicion . |
| 16 | She looked down at the floor and made the slightest movement with one hand . |
| 17 | Adenauer 's other achievement was to build up a personal relationship with Charles de Gaulle which made possible a Franco-German rapprochement of real depth and made the European Economic Community a reality . |
| 18 | He caught the hint of wistfulness in her voice and made the most of it quickly . |
| 19 | A ribbon-lace Verity Lewis creation once stopped the show and made the front page of the Mirror on its debut in a B.B.C. dance routine for the 1980 ‘ Marti ’ series . |
| 20 | Afterwards he dipped his own thumb into the bowl and made the same yellow mark on Chola 's forehead . |
| 21 | In 1898 Emma , Lady Sherborne , converted the Lodge into her dower house , built two little lodges to herald its and her own grandeur and to house her staff , destroyed the staircase and made the two long rooms into four apartments . |
| 22 | Other Semites , the Phoenician Zeno of Citium and Chrysippus of Soli , came to Athens and easily established themselves as masters of wisdom in the very centre of intellectual life in Greece , because they accepted polytheism and made the traditional language of Greek philosophy their own . |
| 23 | Despite this , Bennett led seven Hudson aircraft , with captain , co-pilot and wireless operator and made the first formation delivery flight across the Atlantic in November 1940 ; similar formation flights followed at regular intervals . |
| 24 | George had got the deposit ready for a house and made the first down payment on a dining suite . |