Example sentences of "[vb past] made to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told me of a visit he 'd made to California . |
| 2 | In assessing the financial relief to be awarded to the former wife of a millionaire after their divorce , pursuant to section 25 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 ( as amended by section 3 of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 ) , the court should not calculate the wife 's share solely by reference to her needs , but could take account also of any exceptional contribution she had made to the creation of the husband 's wealth . |
| 3 | In recognition of the enormous contribution that their Service had made to the successful conclusion of WWII , the Air Council set up after the war a war memorial committee . |
| 4 | ‘ I want to know what tax concessions the Government believed they had made to British Aerospace . |
| 5 | The agreement contradicted the promise of Arab self-rule that Britain had made to Sherif Hussein of Mecca ( King Hussein 's great-grandfather ) and has become a byword for duplicity . |
| 6 | As a long-service employee she knew from first-hand experience the contribution Mark had made to the expansion of the Corporation over the years . |
| 7 | And so , she said , ‘ You seem to have been busy this morning , Isabel , ’ but absently remembering the bumping noises from above and the journeys her sister had made to the front sitting room ( locking the door after her ) and back again to the attic ( locking the door ) . |
| 8 | Her behaviour towards Falati was in breach of a promise she had made to her husband before the trial that she would curb her temper and her excesses and maintain a low profile , the ANC sources said . |
| 9 | Loxton was reminded of an earlier statement he had made to the police stating that the time of the second appearance was between 6pm and 6.05pm . |
| 10 | It was to get in those lectures , of course , ’ she added , flushing a little as she recalled some of the pointed remarks the headmistress had made to her , about lack of initiative and weakness of will . |
| 11 | She wrote a memorial to his brother George , now Prince Regent , Nelson 's friend , reminding him of the codicil which the national hero had made to his will leaving her and Horatia to the nation , and asking for it to be recognized in some tangible form . |
| 12 | The only change she had made to the property was to build a garage , and after he had unloaded and put away the Jaguar he decided to climb to the top chamber of the mill while it was still light . |
| 13 | These improvements may be attributed to the adjustments , described in Chapter 6 , which BRAC had made to its standard lobon-gur message as a result of the 1984 observations . |
| 14 | In support of a recent complaint it had made to the EC Commission , Tretorn cites Article 85(1) ( d ) and Article 86(c) of the Treaty of Rome , which refers to ‘ dissimilar conditions to equivalent transactions with other trading parties , thereby placing them at a competitive disadvantage . |
| 15 | Participants were asked to write a letter to themselves as if from an imaginary — or real — ex-pupil , expressing their appreciation for the contribution that they , the teachers , had made to the pupil 's life . |
| 16 | He did n't know ‘ what statement Mr. Gibbon had made to the other gentlemen or what reasoning they could have employed so as to sign a paper declaring the fact of urinous vomiting to be utterly impossible — here I must be at issue with them believing as I do … from my little physiological knowledge , that vomiting of urine for 26 weeks is by no means impossible … ’ . |
| 17 | IBM Japan Ltd is not risking the opprobrium that fell on Eastman Kodak Co when it fired two thirds of its Japanese researchers and withdrew offers of employment it had made to graduates , but it does want to get its 25,000-strong workforce down by 1,200 . |
| 18 | The deposition of the king was followed by a reversal of the forfeitures of 1322 and an annulment of the grants that the victors of Boroughbridge had made to themselves and their supporters . |
| 19 | I was vividly aware of the far reaching and vast contribution that Basil had made to education , to values , to the good influences of the Authority on teachers and children , colleges , schools and students , and I am of the privileged few who were able to work with Basil in the early days of struggles , so I know how much , how very much he did — So I felt that at least he had fulfilled — as nearly as we can ever judge — so much of his life 's work even to the developments in his own personal creative medium — and this must be a comfort to you as well as to us who knew him as a friend and colleague . |
| 20 | Where the claim which the Sailors and Firemen had made to shipowners in the previous July was concerned , Havelock Wilson already knew the Federation 's response . |
| 21 | As he said these words he remembered again the vow he had made to the powers of Callanish which was that he would let Minch go before him . |
| 22 | But then she reminded herself of the promise she had made to another whom she loved . |
| 23 | Due to the modifications that the Doctor had made to his own vintage car , Bessie , he found that he had forgotten just how slow the genuine article 's top speed was without intervention from superior technology . |
| 24 | The fact that had struck them both , however , was the date the genotyping had given for the conception of the boy : a date which coincided with a visit Wyatt , Berdichev and Lehmann had made to a singsong house in the Clay . |
| 25 | Coy then took the DDI through the report Adam had made to him on the phone . |
| 26 | The Soviet leadership , no doubt extremely relieved that Castro had succeeded in crushing the invasion without having to redeem the pledges that Khrushchev had made to him , extracted maximum propaganda value from Washington 's loss of face , but once again reassured the Americans that ‘ we have no bases in Cuba and do not intend to establish any ’ ( Khrushchev 's message to J. F. Kennedy , 22 April 1961 , US Department of State Bulletin , 8 May 1961 , pp. 664–6 ) . |
| 27 | Mrs Sadat and the Queen had become friends after an official visit the Sadat had made to Iran in 1976 . |
| 28 | Cade occurs frequently in the early pipe rolls of Henry II 's reign , where payments to him of around £5,600 are recorded , in settlement of various loans that he had made to the Crown . |
| 29 | He was realizing what a change Tess 's confession had made to his whole life . |
| 30 | Chairman Lord Rees paid tribute to the 20-year contribution Chris had made to the company . |