Example sentences of "made [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However this made naming names to sell the programme a little difficult : no big stars , no even moderately famous ones . |
| 2 | With Edie , he made drawing expeditions to Little Chart Forstal , Frittenden and Tenterden . |
| 3 | Cornelius made cheering noises and drummed his hands on the steering wheel . |
| 4 | They will be used in research by the Mass Section of the NPL , into the effects of vacuum on such standards aimed at offering better traceability to the national standard of measurements made using Pt-Ir weights in vacuum . |
| 5 | An important point to remember about EOG recordings made using EEG amplifiers is that they never give direct information about the direction of gaze — only changes in direction — and the rate at which the galvanometer pens return to the midline of the paper chart is determined by the time constant setting . |
| 6 | Now their pension money has been frozen while trustees investigate certain deals made using money from the fund . |
| 7 | Its label tells you in French that it is guaranteed unpasteurised and made using malt ‘ d'orge de culture biologique ’ . |
| 8 | Open gun positions were located in the bow , midships and extreme tail and provision made to carry bombs beneath the lower wings . |
| 9 | An offer made to acquire control of a public company . |
| 10 | Then he stretched out his hands and made pouncing movements . |
| 11 | However , rarely are such rationales clearly worked out or attempts made to provide evidence in support of these claims . |
| 12 | Firstly , there is a deliberate effort made to provide courses that are vocationally relevant . |
| 13 | At the same moment he made stabbing movements , at shoulder height , with the bat . |
| 14 | Appointed to the politburo and then made founding editor of the theoretical journal Hong Qi ( 'Red Flag' ) in 1958 , Chen wrote numerous articles attacking ‘ revisionism ’ and supporting Mao 's disastrous ‘ Great Leap Forward ’ , an ill-conceived and brutally executed drive for rapid industrialisation and rural collectivisation now blamed for the deaths of more than 15 million people . |
| 15 | Stalin 's successor Khruschev , in the mid-1950s , made overtaking US meat production ( which entailed rapid increases in the production of feed-grains ) the measure of success or failure of his attempt to improve the Soviet diet . |
| 16 | ‘ We know that , Mr Vigo , ’ he said , wrenching his eyes away and fixing them on an eggshell thin service , made to contain jasmine tea . |
| 17 | A small boy with her brandished a plastic gun and made banging sounds at us , but the woman admonished him and smiled at us . |
| 18 | Look what I made appear mum |
| 19 | True , I was now lying naked in a locked and candlelit cabana , alone with the industrious She-She , whose fleshy right hand made smoothing motions on the hair-dotted slope of my inner thigh … |
| 20 | Thus in 1981/82 for example South Wales pits averaged a £13.2 per tonne operating loss , Scottish pits a £5.5 per tonne loss , North Eastern pits £3.8 per tonne and only North Derbyshire and North Nottinghamshire pits made operating surpluses . |
| 21 | According to the FT , analysts reckon that Terry 's , which made operating profits of £3.2 million on sales of £69 million in the first half of last year , could fetch more than £200 million . |
| 22 | In 1988 Medi-Physics made operating losses of $7.4m on sales of $53.2m and its unaudited net assets at the end of August were $63.2m . |
| 23 | There was some attempt made to reach agreement at the continuous disarmament talks but the only real progress was a pledge not to test in the Antarctic , a gesture of more value to the species Penguin than the species Man . |
| 24 | erm unfortunately , it might sound extremely erm severe , but I can think of a number of people I 've met in my experience as a pastor who really and frankly could not help themselves and need to be treated almost like children again and made to receive help , and there are quite number of those sort of characters , unfortunately , on the streets of Oxford . |
| 25 | Not only was it light , warm and washable , it also made grown men , previously never out of a brown jumper and khaki woollen breeches , dress for the hills in something pink and fluffy . |
| 26 | When pictures of Indian sweet shops were shown , the English and West Indian children present sneered and made vomiting noises while the Asians watched in silent embarrassment . |
| 27 | They approached the bed ; their teeth made gnashing sounds . |
| 28 | Servicemen 's wives in Langbaurgh widowed before 1973 had been denied allowances because of an oversight during budget cutbacks made to avoid charge-capping , the council said . |
| 29 | A young couple came to the door of the restaurant , which said ‘ Closed ’ , and made pleading gestures to be let in . |
| 30 | He made swishing noises indicating the beating of wings . |