Example sentences of "[vb past] make that " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I wish I 'd made that point to the Committee . ’
2 Once I 'd made that decision nothing was going to stop me .
3 I mean obviously once she 's been through the learning process herself , so Doug came away feeling quite pleased that he 'd made that contact and he also sort of made one or two , he , he had one or two wise observations I think about the evening , he made one or two new contacts himself and the suggestion and things , he spoke very well about it , at our committee on our last meeting last week
4 His words went straight to her heart , and she remembered the private wish she 'd made that day , that Nicolo would tell her he loved her .
5 Only a few hours later and Fabia was wishing with all she had that she had touched wood when she 'd made that statement .
6 ‘ I hated making that film .
7 But I do n't re think they realize what they were doing when they started making that flower border round , it 's going to be a never ending job .
8 ‘ Just a few people did make that mistake .
9 I believe a close examination of his recorded opinions , and of the idiom in which those opinions were expressed ( an idiom , even to the end , as much British as American ) , would show that Pound too was not insensible to the ideal of the aristocratic amateur in the arts , and was at least sometimes resentful , just as Yeats was , that political and socio-economic developments had made that attitude to the arts impracticable and sterile .
10 By coming to the house on Sunday Moran had made that stretch of road like all roads .
11 An earlier appeal-court ruling had made that distinction , but the lords did not .
12 He had made that appointment five days ago and it was one that he would keep .
13 Though relieved at the arrangements she had made that day , Harriet could not help feeling chastened ; and when she entered the back gate of Four Winds and heard the inevitable wailing of her grandchild , her mood deepened to despair that she had not brought up her own daughter to be the kind of helpmeet which she was certain Edna Rafferty would be .
14 It was the third trip she had made that year , leaving husband , sons and job to visit her father .
15 Big-hearted Dudley Thomas immediately left his courtroom and returned minutes later clutching the wrapped sandwiches his wife had made that morning .
16 I was enormously glad she had made that little speech for the mere sight of Erich — the knowledge that a man who worked as a painter in a Ford Taunus factory and was , in his own way , a type-specimen of Atlantic man , with no known connections with the new Ocean , had somehow fetched up on a remote Pacific island — was disturbing the entire thesis I wished to construct .
17 The politicians that Stockman so despised knew that the dismantling of the welfare state and the elimination of federal largesse were not options available to them — public opinion polls had made that very clear .
18 The landlord was aware of the fact that she had made that application but , notwithstanding that , on 4 December 1989 he applied for execution .
19 I thought I had made that plain . ’
20 And Fergus had made that final , overwhelming sacrifice so that Ireland should be safe , and so that the Wolfqueen should regain Tara .
21 He relapsed into silence then , and because my mind was still trying to grapple with the politics of a country I knew very little about , I failed to ask him whether Gómez had made that flight on his own or if he had had a crew with him .
22 ‘ I thought I had made that clear , ’ said Wheeler with no attempt at all to disguise his contempt for the Archdeacon .
23 Instantly she defended herself , just as she had when he had made that accusation before .
24 He had made that fact clear enough .
25 It was not that she lacked sympathy for Sarah ; she had made that plain in her letter to John .
26 One of the possible reasons suggested for the relationship between risk and recall in Study 1 was that performing risk-related judgment tasks while driving had made that information particularly memorable .
27 As the lift doors opened and she stepped out into the corridor , it occurred to her that she must strike a very different figure from the wide-eyed girl who had made that first visit .
28 There had been no one there for her when she had made that terrible discovery .
29 He added that he had made that decision in spite of an embargo on similar junctions after the Bellgrove train crash two years earlier .
30 She had made that declaration and that commitment that she would go with her mother-in-law wherever she went that her God , Naomi 's God would be Ruth 's God , and that Naomi 's people , would be Ruth 's people .
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