Example sentences of "[conj] have [adv] made [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some ads will be irrelevant : the viewer or reader is not in the target group , or has just made a purchase in that product group and does not want another just yet . |
| 2 | For instance , nothing is more likely than that Prothero , when he said that association with Blast ‘ stamped a man too disadvantageously ’ , had in mind among other things Ford 's connection with the magazine and the scandal of Ford 's relations with Violet Hunt — a scandal that had already made a breach between Violet Hunt and the cruelly timorous Henry James , as told painfully in I Have This to Say . |
| 3 | In throwing away the advantages of the nineteenth-century central city site in the nation 's capital there could be no surer sign that Canadians were allowing Mammon and the attendant philistines to destroy the heritage that had largely made the country . |
| 4 | The pressure was becoming too much for him , and though at first they had taken the challenge with both hands , and had almost made a joke of it , now the months of confinement and running , running and confinement , the eternal hiding , were beginning to take their toll of his spirit . |
| 5 | We have paid home insurance for the last 25 years and have never made a claim . |
| 6 | Shelley had been conscious of him through the corner of her eye , but had deliberately made no effort to speak to him . |
| 7 | Dear Uncle Mike and Auntie Sue … they had four children to think about , but had still made the effort to choose a book Rebecca would really enjoy . |