Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 point of order , the point that I made make it on this side is that we are not against the expenditure .
3 But the the people I met made up for that .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 But I failed to make the connection .
7 It was all quite true : the bobbin lifted 167 times and I failed to make contact once !
8 ‘ I was in charge of ‘ Fluon ’ for a couple of years and I failed to make any impact whatsoever on that particular problem .
9 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 ’ .
10 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 .
11 A. T. I passed for Sergeant seventeen years before I got made up .
12 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 !
13 " 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 .
14 ‘ In these sculptures I tried to make an eye .
15 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 .
16 Afterwards I would feel so guilty that I tried to make myself sick but actually , it never worked .
17 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 .
18 I tried to make the bed look slept in …
19 I tried to make the prospect unattractive , but McIllvanney 's vision of money had dazzled both Ellen and Thessy .
20 Back home again , with Nigel free from pain , I tried to make everything as easy as possible for him .
21 I tried to make her understand that kids were n't necessarily the key to happiness .
22 I tried to make some enquiries . ’
23 I tried to make a joke out of it .
24 I tried to make a joke out of it .
25 I tried to make choices , but wound up with empty gestures .
26 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 .
27 I tried to make no mistakes , but they called me naughty every moment of the day .
28 In order to help the real King , I tried to make myself popular with the people .
29 I tried to make him understand that Brian had n't done anything wrong .
30 I tried to make a bonfire with them on the lawn .
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