Example sentences of "it made [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It made its first journey in 1883 but by the 1960s had been run down to an ordinary train .
2 It was identified on the surveillance radar when it made its first position report and was cleared to continue to the BN non-directional beacon .
3 As expected , AST formally announced its Manhattan SMP multi-processor PC' ( UX No 398 , 377 ) — it made its first appearance at CeBit in Hannover this spring .
4 It made its first flight in July , shortly after this photo was taken .
5 The car did not normally carry passengers , but its seats were used that season by a small orchestra which played selections from ‘ The Gondoliers ’ as it made its romantic way along the Promenade .
6 PREVIOUS whisky industry wisdom had it that Whyte & Mackay , largest minority shareholder of Invergordon Distillers since it made its hostile bid , was going to wait for yesterday 's results and , if they were sufficiently poor to drive down the share price , would then pounce for the remaining 8.8 per cent of shares to give it control .
7 It made its own terms , and the best you could hope for was it would n't happen the way it had happened to Mary Moxton at the Turk 's Head .
8 it made its last appearance at Watkins Glen — a reluctant Andretti again at the wheel — and failed to shine even in the wet conditions of practice .
9 It made her golden shoulders quiver .
10 Whichever it was the emotion was so strong it made her attempted flirtation with Nahum Morey seem cheap .
11 The absurd rent lured her , it made her hundred pounds look less pathetic than it had when she checked into Mrs Archer 's hotel .
12 She had shot him for all the things he had done to her and her husband , shot him because , in the end , she still loved him , and it made his ultimate betrayal all the harder to bear .
13 So he persuaded himself , for it made his own sin less grievous that he was not leading her into temptation too .
14 With his unkempt ginger hair running down into sideboards it made his hard face look even meaner .
15 It made my one minute I thought help !
16 Right , and it made my last week .
17 It was a whole new experience , and at first it made my own feeling of being a fraud even more acute .
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