Example sentences of "made a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would you mind if I made a few housing enquiries for you ? |
| 2 | On reaching the peg which had stopped my fall , he made a few trial attempts with the skyhook , just to find out how it worked . |
| 3 | You get the impression Ruud and Marco could have taken their skills anywhere in the world , found success and made a few friends as well . |
| 4 | The feel of them brought him back into the attic room , to the confusion that made a few words on a piece of paper into a lifeline . |
| 5 | For Tremayne , though he made a few self-deprecating jokes about it , the event gave proof of the substance of his life , much like the biography . |
| 6 | Edward made a few concessions . |
| 7 | He made a few passes and the castle diminished and shrank , as you see it now , and he made a pass or two more and it was walled with glass as you see . |
| 8 | The new calendar , now known as the ‘ Young-Avestan calendar ’ appears to have been adopted in the reign of Cambyses ' great successor Darius I. The most thorough and plausible investigation of the date of its introduction is that made a few years ago by the distinguished historian of ancient astronomy the late Willy Hartner of Frankfurt University . |
| 9 | He made a few enquiries and was able to track down the thieves . |
| 10 | In a survey on shopping which I made a few years ago one of my student interviewers was questioning an old lady about the grocer 's shop she used . |
| 11 | This was typical ‘ normal science ’ — the very necessary filling-in operation which had to follow the categorically original discoveries made a few years earlier by the chief . |
| 12 | Nicky has no illusions about organic farming : ‘ We made a few mistakes at the beginning . |
| 13 | Mitch turned his beer can on the table , made a few new rings . |
| 14 | Montgomery made a few notes , then continued his questioning . |
| 15 | I made a few inquiries . |
| 16 | Delmar Benjamin 's GeeBee Replica flew each day and made a few passes around the pylons . |
| 17 | So , after a little research in Bangkok , I wrote a few letters and made a few calls and found a Brother distributer . |
| 18 | He made a few records under the name of Joe Ritchie . |
| 19 | They say it made a few other people happy as well … |
| 20 | We hear that they made a few proposals of an undetermined nature which we are sure do not involve recording contracts … lives of the rich and famous , eh ? |
| 21 | He made a few gamey remarks to his first Hollywood leading lady , Olivia de Havilland , and she announced to the world that he was ‘ a coarse-grained man with a coarse-grained charm and a talent not completely developed ’ . |
| 22 | I had most of the morning to myself and made a few calls to clients , to a financial journalist whose opinion I valued and finally to Andrew Buccleuth . |
| 23 | In a private agreement made a few months after the treaty was concluded , Bruce restored Henry Percy 's Scottish lands and he is said to have promised to restore the lands of Henry Beaumont and Thomas Wake of Liddel . |
| 24 | ‘ I made a few enquiries an' it 's up fer rent , ’ he called back . |
| 25 | He made a few political speeches , mainly in his father 's constituency . |
| 26 | She made a few attempts and found that she could not work , she could not even read . |
| 27 | When they fished me out I made a few phone calls , |
| 28 | He turned and made a few fast strokes in pursuit , and swam into a current of colder water that snaked across the bay and washed round him . |
| 29 | I made a few suggestions , creating chances , scoring goals , but it did not get through . |
| 30 | Stephen made a few moderate reservations about England in his own soft voice , which was audible over the hubbub like some supersonic protest . |