Example sentences of "make the [num ord] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kohl , for instance , made the first of six planned visits on Feb. 20 to address a rally of the Alliance for Germany [ see below ] attended by 100,000 in Erfurt . |
| 2 | Pérez escaped from his residence just before it was surrounded , and went to a private television station from which he made the first of four broadcasts to the nation repudiating the coup . |
| 3 | Altogether they were to spend 15 months in the English capital and late in April they made the first of three visits ( the others were in May and October ) to the court of King George III and Queen Charlotte . |
| 4 | TITLE-CHASING Orrell make the first of two ‘ do or die ’ league trips to London in nine days when they face Wasps at Sudbury today . |
| 5 | Both linguistic and legal grounds make the second of these hypotheses the more plausible : the response seems to be tailored ( drastically ) to fit the preceding enquiry , in which only subsequent debts are considered ; there is no reason why this trust clause should be thought invalid , as other texts confirm . |
| 6 | But when I joined the RSPB in 1964 as their Shetland representative , I began the process of getting to know the islands better , and this included making the first of many visits to Fair Isles . |
| 7 | Fig 103 By making the first of two tacks into tide it is easier to judge when to tack for the mark since you are much closer to it than if you take the other course . |