Example sentences of "made the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taunton Vale , the Sun Life West League champions , made the long journey north to meet Brooklands with high hopes of regaining the National League place they lost last season . |
| 2 | He had expended himself so much for the people Eva made the long journey to his funeral as a mark of respect . |
| 3 | JOE McCall ( Stephens ) made the long journey from Dublin for the opening round of the UCF 's ATB Mountainbike League , sponsored by the Cycle Shop Lisburn , at Tardree Forest Park . |
| 4 | Oxford United 's fans , more than fifteen hundred of them made the long journey to Tranmere on Saturday to support their team . |
| 5 | THE first Mormon migrants made the long trek west to what would become Utah in the 1840s to escape religious and political persecution . |
| 6 | I made the long trip with my boys but the unit told me I should not be there . |
| 7 | A team of 123 competitors and 22 officials made the long trip after much media criticism of the small size of the original allocation of places , particularly for athletics . |
| 8 | But there was no semblance of a fluke about the result — it was the fastest Gold Cup ever run — and as Norton 's Coin made the long walk past the stands to the winner 's enclosure he started to receive the reception he deserved . |
| 9 | In the following year the Poles of 300 and 301 Squadrons bombed Berlin , as did the Russians , but it was not until 1942 that the first of the four-engined ‘ heavies ’ made the long flight to this target . |
| 10 | Back on the white(ish) stuff , John Welford made the second ascent of Simon Nadin 's 1987 testpiece Gonads giving it F8a+ , and then red-pointed Out of my Tree at Raven Tor as a warm down . |
| 11 | The following day Lord Francis Douglas , who was to die later that week on the first ascent of the Matterhorn , made the second ascent , accompanied by Peter Taugwalder , the guide , Joseph Vian . |
| 12 | Latter and I made the second ascent of Fer de Lance on sight , confirming the E6 6b grade . |
| 13 | It would be far too glib to suggest that he consciously made the second change , to adopt Christianity , merely to give himself an excuse to abandon sexual relations with Mrs Moore , whatever the nature of those relations had been . |
| 14 | Indeed it was this economic growth which made the Second Empire so important for 19th- and even 20th-century France . |
| 15 | His rebuke to the Congress , that " if this leadership is to succeed , it must have the men it wants " , effectively made the second vote on Yanayev a vote of confidence in Gorbachev , and Yanayev was then elected by 1,237 votes to 563 . |
| 16 | Some of it was clearly new to them , and er , they made the right responses . |
| 17 | If the right hon. Gentleman begins to listen to what many employers elsewhere in Europe are saying , he will learn that they recognise that we made the right decisions . |
| 18 | And it surely is som something that the people of Wiltshire can be glad that they made the right decisions in May , that they have n't got that administration , |
| 19 | Perhaps H. G. Wells made the right choice when he cast octopus-like animals in the role of intelligent alien invaders in The War of the Worlds . |
| 20 | ‘ I can see I made the right choice , ’ James said . |
| 21 | History has shown that he made the right choice . |
| 22 | ‘ You really do think I made the right choice ? ’ she asked anxiously . |
| 23 | LEADING scorer Paul Wilkinson , who saw a move to Blackburn collapse last year , yesterday insisted : ‘ I made the right choice in joining Middlesbrough when I left Watford . ’ |
| 24 | And , as he enters the last week of a career which spans more than 30 years , he knows he made the right choice . |
| 25 | Toulon coach Jean-Claude Balatore made the right assessment ; while Biarritz had the men to hold their own in the line-out , neither Ondarts nor his mate Condom — despite their impressive international records — had the stomach for a ferocious challenge up front . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'll have a lot of time to go back over the past in the coming years , I suppose , wonder whether I made the right choices at the right time . ’ |
| 27 | If any wonder whether they made the right decision to come home and marry a British man , Dolly Howard who danced round the world had the wittiest appreciation of the difference between the continental men and the boys back home : |
| 28 | It may be that you receive praise for a piece of work well done , and suddenly you feel that you made the right decision to leave the family home and strike out on your own . |
| 29 | Anfield 's record-breaking striker is certain that neither Blackburn Rovers ' financial clout nor their present League position can ever console the Scot that he made the right decision on that dramatic day in February 1991 . |
| 30 | ‘ I think we made the right decision , but it is a grey area . |