Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] make the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But 100-metres champion Linford Christie failed to make the 5.40 pm showdown and his dream of a sprint double died . |
| 2 | Edward had made the necessary signals , and received the necessary instructions . |
| 3 | Edward had made the same objection . |
| 4 | Their friends could only feel that death was merciful in the circumstances , especially with war imminent , and that Molly had made the closing months of their lives very happy . |
| 5 | It was in this way that Galle came to make the first sighting of the planet now known as Neptune . |
| 6 | Moses had made the arduous climb to the top of the mountain , but on the summit he did not experience God himself but a thick cloud of unknowing . ’ |
| 7 | Sir John Cockroft , the Director of Harwell , had won a Nobel Prize for his 1932 work where , with the prototype high energy nuclear accelerator , he and Ernest Walton had made the first artificial disintegration , or fission , of atomic nuclei . |
| 8 | Paula intended to make the most of every one of them . |
| 9 | The English had come to France encouraged to make the most of a lack of united opposition to them . |
| 10 | Nobody since the first Napoleon made his Corsican brothers kings of half Europe had made the political code of the Latin world of the Mafia so obviously the basis of his policy as Nicolae Ceauşescu . |
| 11 | The subsequent growth of Teheran had made the previous royal quarters in town too cramped and after an attempt on the Shah life in 19965 , on of several that he survived , the family had moved to Niavaran . |
| 12 | ( Schlesinger had made the right decision , because The April Fools , finally directed by Stuart Rosenberg , was a real failure . ) |
| 13 | Tubal and Vulcan laboured to make the four-and-a-half inch thick steel plates for the Royal Navy 's first all-iron warships , HMS Terror and HMS Erebus . |
| 14 | Truman had made the first move in South-East Asia at the time of the Korean War , sending financial and other aid to the French government , by then engaged in a desperate attempt to maintain their control of Indo-China . |
| 15 | Margaret Gowing in her official history of the British post-war atomic programme said : ‘ Polonium was a little-known element needed for a vital component of the ( atomic ) bomb … after Harwell had made the first polonium , Windscale assumed production responsibility … |
| 16 | Despite the siege , Nicholas had made the short journey many times to sleep at his villa . |
| 17 | As military obligations were the only visible tie between Rome and the allies , Rome had to make the most of these obligations lest they became meaningless or , worse , lest the allied armies turn against Rome . |
| 18 | Atherton and DeFreitas failed to make the most of their first Test selection and face a nervous wait until Gooch 's side for Lord 's is named on Sunday . |
| 19 | I am particularly pleased that Aunt Alice managed to make the long journey down to Surrey from Aberdeen for this occasion , and we are all delighted that Annabelle 's sister , Sharon , flew all the way from Australia to join us and be such a charming bridesmaid . |
| 20 | Loppe had made the awkward trip once since the siege began . |