Example sentences of "[num] he made [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1933 he made the first crossing of the uninhabited interior wilderness of Iceland with a wheeled vehicle — his bicycle . |
| 2 | In 1333 he made a rare journey abroad to deliver the new archbishop , John Stratford , his pallium . |
| 3 | In February 1865 he made a brief visit to Oxford , where he was introduced to Gerard Manley Hopkins [ q.v. ] , their only meeting in person . |
| 4 | In 1815 he visited Paris , in 1820 he made a six months ' visit to Italy , and in 1825 he was in Paris again , having been sent to supervise repairs at the British embassy . |
| 5 | In 1796 he made an ineffectual bid to reform and virtually abolish the game laws . |
| 6 | In 1893 he made an unsuccessful attempt to solve the coal industry 's economic and labour difficulties by proposing the amalgamation of collieries into a massive semi-public enterprise monitored by the Board of Trade , which would control output , fix prices , pay fair wages , and establish a miners ' welfare fund . |
| 7 | After a minute or two he made a wide turn and flew towards me once again . |
| 8 | Baldwin had a profound distaste for those who had made money out of the war and in 1919 he made an anonymous donation of part of his wealth to the nation as his personal sacrifice ; Neville Chamberlain was greatly affected by the death of his cousin Norman and determined that such sacrifice should not be wasted . |
| 9 | On Aug. 19 he made a dramatic call for resistance , standing on one of the tanks stationed outside the Supreme Soviet building ( 10 tanks went over to Yeltsin on the night of Aug. 19 — see below ; the commander of tanks stationed outside the Russian Supreme Soviet building was reported as saying that he would not order an attack on Yeltsin . ) |
| 10 | Reluctantly , Johnson accepted their advice , and on 31 March 1968 he made a dramatic appearance on nationwide television to announce a fresh peace initiative , the reduction of bombing raids on North Vietnam , and his decision not to stand for re-election in November . |
| 11 | In 1927 he made a triumphant visit there , and convinced himself that the large-scale dramatic compositions he favoured would suit the Soviet vision . |
| 12 | In 1988 he made an unsuccessful attempt to challenge Mr Hattersley for the deputy leadership . |
| 13 | In 1967 he made a gross , slap-and-tickle version of ‘ The Taming of the Shrew ’ with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor . |
| 14 | In 1910 he made the last of his great journeys across China , travelling from Honan in Central China to Russian Turkestan , a distance of 3,750 miles in 174 days . |