Example sentences of "made any [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he had managed to complete " East Coker " there , his duties as an air-raid warden were becoming too arduous for him — he had to sit up two nights each week , and his general loss of sleep made any kind of work more difficult . |
| 2 | Once again , no party except ours seems to have grasped this simple point or made any proposal to act on it . |
| 3 | Has my right hon. Friend made any progress in that direction ? |
| 4 | In its prime the solid curtain-walled castle could not have been taken by storm up the sheer cliffs rising from the sea on three sides ; and a deep ditch hewn from the rock on the landward side made any surprise attack on the gatehouse or drum towers improbable . |
| 5 | Politics , however — at least in the sense of nationalist feeling — had for many decades been an important and even a dominant theme in children 's fiction , and we would expect to find Ruritanian stones using nationalistic honour as a theme at least in books where adventure made any pretence of being more than a game . |
| 6 | Not one word of it made any sense at all to him . |
| 7 | Whatever one 's political view of them , if the privatization proposals made any sense then prices being kept down by competition should be at their heart . |
| 8 | None of it made any sense . |
| 9 | In the fourth condition they were asked to judge whether a sentence made any sense . |
| 10 | The most interesting effect in Kleiman 's experiments emerged when the shadowers were asked whether a sentence such as Pizzas have been eating Jerry made any sense . |
| 11 | You go along thinking you know exactly what everything is , and then you stop and look at it and it does n't make any sense and you think maybe it only made any sense in the first place because everyone was pretending it did . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , of course , ’ said Holly , as though it made any sense to her . |
| 13 | Nothing made any sense . ’ |
| 14 | None of it made any sense ! |
| 15 | But the longer she stared at that tiny betraying smudge , the more she realised that it was the only explanation that made any sense at all . |
| 16 | None of this made any sense — none of it . |
| 17 | Yet — there was an enduring lone voice among the internal babble which held out strong and true for Dane , and somehow its message was the only one that made any sense . |
| 18 | Masklin ran this sentence through his head again , in case it made any sense when you listened to it a second time . |
| 19 | Had n't he understood that she had given herself to him for the only reason that made any sense to her . |
| 20 | These oriental concepts find parallels in the teaching of Swedenborg , ( see chapter ten ) , but would have been repudiated by Evangelicals , whose missionary zeal made any taint of paganism hateful to them . |
| 21 | In any case a number of these old pupils found that neither the church nor the State made any provision for them , and agreed among themselves to meet together for prayer and worship . |
| 22 | Sir John died seven years ago , but in all that time Lavinia has not increased Benedict 's allowance , as she might well have done , nor made any provision for his accommodation , other than saying that he might live at Merchiston Lodge if he chose . ’ |
| 23 | The central problem developed when the participatory nature of ritual was destroyed and replaced with a concept of a god who had no need for the feelings of people , who was placed above them in ways that made any behaviour other than worship and penitence irrelevant . |
| 24 | The bidder 's estimate is that at least £31million of the property profit has been taken above the line , and Kingfisher also questions whether Dixons made any profit at all in 1988-89 from selling electrical goods in the UK . |
| 25 | The thieves were said to enter the house at night , tie up the persons inside , threaten to murder them if they made any noise , dig up the floor to search for money , and so on . |
| 26 | It does not allege that the mother made any contract in reference to the child — the contract was with the mother in respect of herself alone . |
| 27 | Certainly he never made any secret of his Conservative past , having twice stood unsuccessfully for parliament among the miners of County Durham , where his air of a slightly lost rural dean can hardly have been an asset . |
| 28 | Leonard himself was enthused to make his own music , an inspiration which developed from being induced to learn the piano as a young boy with Miss McDougall , in which he said that neither he nor his sister made any headway . |
| 29 | Rather , the fact that it made any headway at all bears witness to the degree to which wide sections of the British public became alarmed by the apparent drift of Chamberlain 's foreign policy . |
| 30 | But of the 700 people who handed over more than £350,000 to Todd , only 29 made any money . |