Example sentences of "made a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A good sense of smell and an active intelligence were the factors which made a good dog . |
| 32 | Lambert spent two days on trial with French giants Monaco this week and said : ‘ I think I made a good impression but I 'm quite happy to stay with Reading . ’ |
| 33 | Anne made a good recovery from her illness and three weeks later was back in circulation . |
| 34 | His brother William made a good deputy in most respects and could deal with much of the day-to-day management of the properties ; but he was very much a stay-at-home character , immersed in his books and studies , and the more distant affairs tended to get neglected . |
| 35 | After that no studio would touch him , although he made a good living as an actor and was even reunited with Gloria Swanson to recount more glorious days in Sunset Boulevard . |
| 36 | The lawyer made a good reply . |
| 37 | Ronnie , 45 , made a good impression as he posed with his wife Jo , 36 , at a New York party . |
| 38 | ‘ She made a good job of it too , ’ Alec explained , adding like a good Scot , ‘ and of course there 's a small benefit to me because now I draw a rent allowance . ’ |
| 39 | The female candidate , Barbara Dalzell , a New Zealand journalist from the Financial Times , made a good impression and was reluctantly rejected as lacking experience . |
| 40 | He was accustomed to it from his schooldays since his was n't a memory system that made a good impression on harassed teachers or impatient examiners , especially as it did n't work at all with books . |
| 41 | But they were solid , and led safely up to the ruined top of the wall where another , larger slab made a good view point . |
| 42 | The following year he beat both Sergio Casal and Emilio Sanchez in a 4–1 victory over Spain at Telford and said : ‘ I made a good start in the Cup so the first few matches will always stick in my mind . ’ |
| 43 | If they made a good impression during that brief stay at the University , they would be given priority of consideration for becoming undergraduates when they were demobilised . |
| 44 | Mr Hunt made a good effort to attract business to the state , but his political reforms floundered . |
| 45 | Manoel de Oliveira , a Portuguese director , made a good comeback with ‘ Le Val Abraham ’ , a tense love story . |
| 46 | He and Ollie and Mac made a good team , playing at various Underground stations all that autumn and winter until Mac left because he had found a place to live up north and they took Peter on . |
| 47 | But as I thought then and it has proved since , it made a good story — The pump and towing car did not fare so lightly ; they caught the blast , we missed it . |
| 48 | After the nationalization of the coffee industry in 1979 , the company made a good deal with INCAFE , the state marketing board . |
| 49 | Though not a homosexual , he mixed easily with gays , laughed readily at Minton 's jokes and made a good audience . |
| 50 | I do n't know what animal it was , but it made a good meal . |
| 51 | The trouble is , once one article said it , then other articles copied it because it made a good story . |
| 52 | Carson liked her because she seemed to display the ideal mix of warmth and distance that made a good neighbour . |
| 53 | But they made a good offer . |
| 54 | ‘ Well , anyway , ’ said Gareth Holmroyd , ‘ I 'm glad you made a good job of it . ’ |
| 55 | Fred had been helping to rescue a family trapped in a cellar when a collapsing beam held him trapped by his left arm and leg for several hours , but he made a good recovery . |
| 56 | Tessa Dahl 's famous father Roald certainly knew what made a good children 's book , and judging by The Same But Different , with illustrations by Arthur Robins ( Puffin , £2.99 ) , she 's got a pretty good idea too . |
| 57 | He suffered another attack of pneumonia and , on medical advice , he spent the winter of 1905–6 in Egypt , where he made a good recovery . |
| 58 | The galley was very cramped , but the ship 's chests , still marked FOR 2 SEAMEN , and the deckhouse , from which Willis had watched the life of the river go by , both made a good impression . |
| 59 | So thank you very much er for your work on that , and I think you made a good appointment . |
| 60 | His widow and children returned to England and later emigrated to Australia where one of the daughters , Maria Louisa , made a good marriage . |