Example sentences of "[vb past] make [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when she tried to make a second foray she was hurled out bodily . |
| 2 | It was in this way that Galle came to make the first sighting of the planet now known as Neptune . |
| 3 | He struggled to make the first team when we were in the second , and went on loan to a couple of spanish clubs , then was sold to some crap side for next to nothing . |
| 4 | Mrs Meacock and Araminta had made a first appearance in a short story , ‘ The Prerogative of Love ’ . |
| 5 | Within two months they had made a first attempt to get a suitable building site — part of the field in which the new Presbyterian School was to be built . |
| 6 | Then it had been Roman revenge against an uprising — but the seizure and detonation of an Israeli atomic bomb by terrorists had made a second holocaust of the land that once was known as Holy . |
| 7 | Crown counsel informed defence counsel of an inconsistency between the sister 's testimony and her first statement without showing him that statement or revealing that she had made a second statement confirming the first statement in that respect . |
| 8 | He explained that there never had been a bottle of perfume , but he had made the first call in front of his wife who was now quite happy because she thought her husband had merely left her birthday present behind , not , as he had actually done , completely forgotten her birthday . |
| 9 | 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 … |
| 10 | Professor Andrew Lyne and two colleagues , Matthew Bailes and Setnam Shemar , astronomers from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom , announced in the British science journal Nature of July 24 that they had made the first discovery of a planet orbiting a star outside the solar system . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Yordan Mutafchiev , had made the first visit to China by a Bulgarian Defence Minister in 30 years . |
| 13 | Jackson 's 1957 paper had made the first study of muon catalysed fusion in mixtures of deuterium and tritium but had concluded that there too the energy return did not offer much practical hope . |
| 14 | Hence the value of meals sacrificed to make the last film is also the marginal utility of the last meal times the number of meals sacrificed . |
| 15 | And equilibrium in the film industry , by equating the marginal utility of films to the marginal utility of the meals sacrificed to make the last film , guarantees that society 's resources are allocated efficiently . |