Example sentences of "had made [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It noted that Ealing Council , which , like Hounslow , is Labour-controlled , had made a grant of £50,000 , and listed a number of events : ‘ April 1986 , organised a meeting at Southall Town Hall on the seventh anniversary of Blair Peach 's death , called for full inquiry … |
| 32 | Conservative loyalists said Mr Tebbit had made a blunder , but he showed no sign of backing off from ‘ one of the things that brought me into politics — the belief that immigration should be reduced ’ . |
| 33 | He had made a fortune out of the slave trade and wanted to spend it on land . |
| 34 | Her husband Francis had made a slightly better showing than her daughter Jennifer , who was looking particularly ragged . |
| 35 | His last interview with a solicitor had been conducted in a language barely recognizable as English and it had taken over three hours and a reference to the Chief Constable to elicit the fact that the deceased had made a previous will in which the respective positions of his wife and his mistress had been exactly reversed . |
| 36 | It was the first time two West Indian batsmen had made a century stand for the sixth wicket in each innings of a Test and it took the game right away from England ; when the last wicket fell , Logie was left unbeaten on 95 , the score was 397 , and England had to survive for the best part of two days . |
| 37 | On a good pitch , England struggled after Gooch and Larkins had made a solid start , and 188 for 8 was disappointing . |
| 38 | In the difficult job of getting through one 's life happily , she had made a bad start . |
| 39 | In response to the many toasts from his American colleagues he had made a light-hearted speech at dinner , which belied his deep disappointment at being sent back to the States on a Public Relations assignment . |
| 40 | He was sorry he had made a fool of himself by ringing . |
| 41 | Worse still , after she had made a little money from the publication of a pamphlet containing her beastly poems about him , she commissioned a rubber dress from ‘ her designer ’ . |
| 42 | He felt he had made a fool of himself . |
| 43 | Down on the steps , Marie had decided that she had made a mistake . |
| 44 | From the moment he modelled himself on Mussolini , he resembled nothing so much as an actor touring the provinces in a play which someone else had made a success of in London . |
| 45 | In areas where fascism had made a significant challenge its presence was likely to be embarrassing . |
| 46 | In 1990 69% of farmers had made a purchase within seven months of their visit to the Royal , 81% were likely to make a purchase within 19 months of their visit . |
| 47 | She had made a firm promise . |
| 48 | Eamonn McCann , the ‘ unofficial Labour ’ candidate in Londonderry , demanded that the Official Unionist , Robin Chichester-Clark , dismiss those members of his constituency party who had made a deal with the Protestant Unionists or be seen as a puppet on a Paisleyite string . |
| 49 | Spartan Missile had made a bad mistake at the eighteenth and Thorne was giving him plenty of time to recover . |
| 50 | Ernie never would admit he had made a mistake with the horse . |
| 51 | He had made a great reputation in Berlin between the wars . |
| 52 | Zuwaya heard on the BBC Arabic Service that President Sadat had made a speech about Libya : they switched on to Radio Cairo in the evening to listen to it . |
| 53 | People from other lineages might not know of these particular marriages , but they had similar marriages of their own , similar reminders in their own genealogies that they had made a special and enduring peace with other lineages . |
| 54 | The main source of knowledge that there had been a quarrel was the reminders that people had made a peace ; and as the peace was between groups , it suggested that the quarrel was as well . |
| 55 | On 3 July the men of Huntingdonshire had made a perambulation in their county , which had until then been entirely forest , a perambulation which was declared to be ‘ in accordance with the Charter of the Forest ’ . |
| 56 | She intended to slap Elisabeth on the back , but she was too late ; Elisabeth had made a dash for fresh air and Mitzi 's arm met that of Elisabeth 's chair . |
| 57 | Henreid had made a film in Austria five years earlier on the same subject , and in Basil Bartlett 's play he brought considerable urbanity to the role of Prince Louis of Battenberg , opposite Leo Genn 's Prince of Wales . |
| 58 | Coton had made a brilliant save from Speed , again demonstrating his great versatility at right-back , to preserve that advantage and the City goalkeeper , voted No 1 in the League by his fellow professionals , went on to make other important stops from Fairclough and Wallace to thwart a predictable Leeds rally early in the second half . |
| 59 | In Prevert 's words : ‘ It was as if life , in a snapshot , had made a portrait of Doisneau . ’ |
| 60 | Evidence that they had made a sound choice came with the £36 bill for the 6,000 mile service . |