Example sentences of "made a fine " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first day belonged very much to Gooch , who made a fine 153 that was to earn him the Man of the Match award . |
| 2 | Thus Len made a fine central pivot , though he began as a full-back and appeared in every defensive position for the Palace . |
| 3 | Then came Crossley 's blunder and , although he made a fine one-handed save from Dean Holdsworth three minutes later , there were no seasonal feelings of goodwill from the Forest fans towards their 'keeper . |
| 4 | Back in Europe , Niki made a fine come-back at Brands Hatch , winning the race handsomely ; Prost was forced to retire . |
| 5 | Fred Crocombe put the flaps half down , and Wood flattened out and made a fine three-point landing , pulling up quickly and successfully avoiding several groups of boulders . |
| 6 | They made their money out of sugar and slaves and then moved here and made a fine place of the house . |
| 7 | Sir Kenelm Digby , whose book of recipes collected from his contemporaries and friends has provided posterity with a graphic record of Stuart cookery , notes that he himself made a fine syllabub with syrup left over from the home-drying of plums ; being " very quick of the fruit and very weak of sugar " this syrup " makes the Syllabub exceeding well tasted " says Sir Kenelm . |
| 8 | There was no doubting that this young relative of his made a fine figure of a man , he thought , as he announced that he was going upstairs to change for dinner . |
| 9 | ‘ You and Battling Bertha made a fine pair . |
| 10 | Faldo , at least , improved as his round went on , with birdies at the eighth and 11th , but Woosnam made a fine start and finished badly . |
| 11 | The first one on our list tonight , ah , one seven nine , is for the young ladies that we 've just seen , with a production of their book , A Dog Called Mock , and I think that we er , talked about this , and asked them to come in , because we wanted to know the substance , and whether this thing was actually taking place , and what was , I , I , I do n't know what the rest of you feel , I think they made a fine presentation , and it 's obviously something which is going ahead , and I hope that some of you feel , we should reward initiative . |
| 12 | Ports skipper Brian Strain made a fine run into enemy territory before squaring the ball to the Scottish striker who buried it past John Grace from 16 yards . |
| 13 | The Ballynahinch keeper made a fine save from a Nigel Taggart flick on the right . |
| 14 | Middlesbrough 's on-loan keeper , Ian Ironside , made a fine save to prevent Paul Wilson from reducing the deficit with a well-struck drive . |
| 15 | Stephen Pears made a fine save but could only palm the ball into the path of Steve Butler . |
| 16 | A neat move of one-touch football from Mikhailichenko gave Huistra a promising opening , for example , but his compatriot made a fine save . |
| 17 | On thirty one minutes , Dave Warner made a fine one-handed save to tip over Richard Thompson 's point blank header following Martin Tilley 's corner . |