Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] to make " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd intended to make a sharp retort , but even to her own ears her voice sounded tremulous , full of longing that had n't been satisfied . |
| 2 | After I 'd checked to make sure that the back of the van was locked , I jumped up into the driver 's seat and rammed the key into the ignition . |
| 3 | Eggs and bacon and fried bread , it 's about half past nine , to do something else , but he came tearing in , I 've got to go to the office , she said , as though it was my fault , and he 'd rung to make sure everything was alright , got no reply , and suddenly remembered that his secretary was going to have appointment , there 's nobody there , so |
| 4 | He was delighted with all we 'd done to make the house habitable in under a week and greatly enjoyed partying with friends . |
| 5 | He 'd been glaring and smashing down glasses on the table and muttering under his breath and I wondered what on earth I 'd done to make him so disturbed , and then I realised I had n't done anything . |
| 6 | Erm yes , they er , they felt they 'd been let down by the Railway men , I think , or someone else at the beginning at the Strike , and they were out on a limb but er they 'd got to make the best of it . |
| 7 | I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts . |
| 8 | You know I was completely on my own I , I 'd got to make my own decisions . |
| 9 | I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts . |
| 10 | You said I 'd got to make the most of it this week end . |
| 11 | Do you know , on the first night , Malcolm Harris did n't know about the cuts we 'd had to make for time . |
| 12 | In the morning , she 'd ask Marie-Christine to take him a note , saying that she 'd had to make other plans . |
| 13 | But 5 year old Amy Harding would have found the trauma of having a surgical collar even worse if she 'd had to make the long trip to Gloucester . |
| 14 | And you should have put it in writing if you 'd wanted to make anything of it ! ’ |
| 15 | It also became clear why he 'd wanted to make love to her ; to make her believe he cared , because if she cared for him who better to persuade the colonel to tell his friends on the council to let the plans go through ? |
| 16 | that 's what I thought , I was n't quite sure , I just wanted I 'd been sort of going through various things , and I want I 'd wanted to make absolutely sure |
| 17 | I think he 'd tried to make a certain birdie but he 'd really come unstuck . |
| 18 | Once or twice he 'd — well he 'd tried to make some sort of advances to her . |
| 19 | She 'd tried to make a joke out of it . |
| 20 | She seemed poised to make a speech , then and there , in the middle of Tottenham Court Road , but all she said , before she came forward to join us , was : ‘ Art can be a snare and a delusion . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Once I 'd begun to make love to you , could you really have asked me to stop ? ’ |
| 22 | I dug out the packet of Sweet Afton I 'd managed to make last most of the week and lit up . |
| 23 | The tone was uncompromising but somehow neutral , and the child addressed hastened to make the adjustment , rebuked but not embarrassed or crushed . |
| 24 | It seemed unlikely that anyone so competent as Dora would make such an elementary mistake , but under that fierce gaze Melissa felt bound to make some suggestion , however implausible . |
| 25 | While this added £5.5m to distributable reserves , Graseby also felt compelled to make a £2.9m provision against the land and buildings revaluation reserve , given the depressed state of the UK property market . |
| 26 | This House , despite a formidable argument advanced by Mr. Isaacs for the councils , nevertheless felt compelled to make the reference for which B. & Q. contended . |
| 27 | The attempt to bridge the arts/science divide was , in many cases , doomed to failure , with the result that students felt forced to make a choice between their coursework and their outside interests . |
| 28 | Barnes had been given the bird for an earlier kicking failure but he converted that try with such a fine kick that he felt entitled to make an equalising gesture to the crowd . |
| 29 | Although Haworth had intended to make a career in the chemical industry , he won a scholarship which enabled him to go to Gottingen for postgraduate work . |
| 30 | But they too were in danger of meeting the same fate , and for the same reason : the document safeguarding the rights of the monastic community , which St Thomas had intended to make , did not exist . |