Example sentences of "they made the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirty of them made the trip to Gulfstream Park and the best they could manage was one Irish and one French third place , both well beaten . |
| 2 | Never before had there been as many as nine of his members in a Masters field and every one of them made the cut . |
| 3 | A-Team star George Peppard 's second wife , actress Elizabeth Ashley — whom he met and fell in love with when they made The Carpetbaggers in 1964 — claimed that he assaulted her and came at her with a hot frying pan , an allegation that Peppard has always strongly denied . |
| 4 | They made the girl go back to Baskerville Hall with them , and locked her in a room upstairs . |
| 5 | They made the bed up , so that it looked ordinary . |
| 6 | They made the Navigation Acts effective ; in the colonies the legislation came to be known as ‘ the Acts of Trade ’ , which expressed rather well the way that , while the Acts ' main importance to England lay in their encouragement to shipping , their main impact on the colonies came in the way they affected the pattern of trade that was developing . |
| 7 | They made the colleges really monstrous . |
| 8 | They made the driver help them , but I stood to one side stamping my feet to keep warm and watching the horizon with keen interest . |
| 9 | At its conclusion they made the order that all parties accepted to be the appropriate order . |
| 10 | He had been friends while they talked in the spinney , and while they made the dam on the stream and read their paperbacked books after they 'd eaten their sandwiches . |
| 11 | Locals are grateful they made the airfield but scared over future flights . |
| 12 | They made the rope . |
| 13 | They made the recording on December 31 , 1989 , when Mr Gilbey called Diana ‘ Squidgy ’ and told him : ‘ I want you to think of me after midnight . |
| 14 | But while Francis and Mary fussed about the situation in Edinburgh , setting up an enquiry into what had happened to the burgh council , in February 1560 the Protestant lords did something ideologically much less courageous than their deposition of the regent , but in practical terms infinitely more crucial : they made the Treaty of Berwick with England , and were assured of English help . |
| 15 | and then it went on to his birthday so they made the excuse that they 'd have a a double celebration . |
| 16 | ‘ Last year , ’ said Kāli , as we walked along behind the houses , ‘ Mother and one or two other women started before the forest was officially opened — before ban pasāi — and people were so angry that they made the women 's husbands go to the headman and pay a fine of five rupees each . ’ |
| 17 | And then they made the noises . ’ |
| 18 | Is n't it a disgrace Madam Speaker , that the government should duck the opportunity to make a clear statement on a sixty , on an increase which is the sixteenth since they made the promise in nineteen seventy nine that they would not increase prescription charges . |
| 19 | One is attempting to discover what was the intention of the parties at the time they made the contract . |
| 20 | It will be a condition only if either there is an earlier case establishing that such a clause is a condition ( i.e. ‘ of the essence ’ ) or else it was clearly intended by the parties when they made the contract that any breach of that term would entitle the other party to repudiate the contract and reject the goods . |
| 21 | And er anyway we eventually er ah but er the questions used to asked at every meeting , when are we going to come out and er so much so that er they made the secretary who was a J P and a Tory write to the T U C and er say that we prepared to come out when ever they ask us . |
| 22 | Finally in the 64th minute , they made the breakthrough : Paul Evans , in only his second appearance since joining from Merthyr Tydfil , scoring the goal . |
| 23 | When Two Left Feet was eventually released , critics pointed out that it had become dated , but there was general praise for the performances of Crawford and his two female co-stars , all of whom had been unknown when they made the film but had become names by the time it was shown in cinemas . |
| 24 | Women who lacerated young feminist apprentices at conferences if they made the mistake of admitting confusion or heretical leanings . |
| 25 | The bishops claimed , however , they were making it clear that people could in conscience vote for the introduction of divorce without incurring moral blame provided they made the decision in a reflective and conscientious way . |
| 26 | The real joke is that , by the time they made the decision , the alternative comedians were appearing in commercials and sitcoms of a kind indistinguishable from those they had once criticised . |
| 27 | Dodging a motorized patrol sent out to cut them off , they made the crossing point and , as dawn broke , managed to shove and coax the truck up the steep track . |
| 28 | A security official said : ‘ They made the crossing for a bet . ’ |
| 29 | Ronni had plenty of time to torture herself with these thoughts as they made the journey back to Olbia , barely exchanging a word the whole way . |
| 30 | they made the area around the reactor a non living area , the problem is of course people that have lived there for a long time do n't want to move and so over |