Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them tried to make amends for their own earlier contribution to this state of affairs and moved to include me more fully in the life of the school — a few even started to invite me back home for meals and things . |
| 2 | The cause of children 's bookselling can only be advanced by everyone involved making worthwhile sums of money which justify the resources allocated . |
| 3 | point of order , the point that I made make it on this side is that we are not against the expenditure . |
| 4 | But the the people I met made up for that . |
| 5 | Yet somehow Edward must be appeased , so I sought to make a virtue of my ignorance , asking questions that would allow him to air his greater experience . |
| 6 | I can not help the hon. Gentleman on the departure of Duncan Nichol or on its date , but I can help him on the point that I sought to make . |
| 7 | But I failed to make the connection . |
| 8 | It was all quite true : the bobbin lifted 167 times and I failed to make contact once ! |
| 9 | ‘ I was in charge of ‘ Fluon ’ for a couple of years and I failed to make any impact whatsoever on that particular problem . |
| 10 | I planned to make one chair as a trial piece , and , if it looked right , to do a real run of six , using the trial pieces as ‘ templates ’ . |
| 11 | If you passed for Sergeant , you got two ten-shilling special allowances , and when I got made Sergeant , I was on a bike allowance of seven shillings a week . |
| 12 | A. T. I passed for Sergeant seventeen years before I got made up . |
| 13 | And they says as soon as you see one coming you sa say can I got make your bloody mind up which one do you want ! |
| 14 | " At first , " John went on , obviously bent on making a clean breast of everything , " at first when I tell him you a whore , he do n't believe me , so I got to make him believe . |
| 15 | ‘ In these sculptures I tried to make an eye . |
| 16 | I tried to make him as comfortable as possible and with the assistance of a French Commando placed a shell dressing into the large wound in his back . |
| 17 | Afterwards I would feel so guilty that I tried to make myself sick but actually , it never worked . |
| 18 | I tried to make my excuse sound plausible , but I fear I did hurt him ; he had been pronounced unfit for military service and he was lonely and smarting at his exclusion from the experience of his peers . |
| 19 | I tried to make the bed look slept in … |
| 20 | I tried to make the prospect unattractive , but McIllvanney 's vision of money had dazzled both Ellen and Thessy . |
| 21 | Back home again , with Nigel free from pain , I tried to make everything as easy as possible for him . |
| 22 | I tried to make her understand that kids were n't necessarily the key to happiness . |
| 23 | I tried to make some enquiries . ’ |
| 24 | I tried to make a joke out of it . |
| 25 | I tried to make a joke out of it . |
| 26 | I tried to make choices , but wound up with empty gestures . |
| 27 | I did not want anyone to think I was a Yahoo , so I tried to make it clear that my habits were very different from theirs . |
| 28 | I tried to make no mistakes , but they called me naughty every moment of the day . |
| 29 | In order to help the real King , I tried to make myself popular with the people . |
| 30 | I tried to make him understand that Brian had n't done anything wrong . |