Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] not make " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I did not make a fuss about it . |
| 2 | Tends to think ‘ I did not make it happen ’ . |
| 3 | How then can God say to Moses ( Exodus 6:2–3 ) that " by my name the Lord I did not make myself known the them " ( i.e. Abraham , etc . ) ? |
| 4 | I did not make good that afternoon . |
| 5 | ‘ I did not make a great job of that , did I ? ’ he asked . |
| 6 | On the whole , she thought as she grilled her lamb chop , tossed the broad beans from cullender to plate and regarded the ginger-haired Tobias who had curled up companionably on a copy of the parish magazine in the centre of the kitchen table , it 's an icon of paradise : a garden I did not make , a house I 'm only partly responsible for and , above all , no human contacts unless I seek them out . |
| 7 | And a very unnatural mother I should think myself if I did not make a push to secure it for Gerald ! ’ |
| 8 | I apologise if I did not make myself clear . |
| 9 | ‘ I got much more out of the car than I did in Kyalami and I did not make any mistakes . |
| 10 | ‘ Should you come to town , I am sorry that I can not offer you a home pro tempore — pro trumpery indeed it would be , if I did not make any such offer — for unless you occupied the grate as a seat — I see no probability of your finding any rest consonant with the safety of my parrots — seeing , that of the six chairs I possess — 5 are at present occupied with lithographic prints : — the whole of my exalted & delightful upper tenement in fact overflows with them , and for the last 12 months I have so moved — thought — looked at , — & existed among parrots — that should any transmigration take place at my decease I am sure my soul would be very uncomfortable in anything but one of the psittacidae . ’ |
| 11 | Neumann , conveniently , attributes to me a generalization I did not make then proceeds to refute it . |
| 12 | However , I did not make the wedding but I did get some of the grog and a piece of the cake , and kissed the bride by proxy ( her maid of honour was stand-in ) . |
| 13 | This was a very old set and did not always work ; as I did not make contact with the control tower I came round and I saw that it was all clear for me to land , so I put my wheels down and made my approach . |
| 14 | ‘ I did not make love to her , Leonora , ’ he said forcibly . |
| 15 | Then I learned that if I did not make these payments I would be registered as a debtor for a period of six years . |
| 16 | The news of the morning broadcast had brought them all to this place , anticipating something like what they were now hearing , which did not make it any better . |
| 17 | There was a dim light in the church which did not make the atmosphere any jollier . |
| 18 | Here was a TV station which did not make its own programmes but , instead , contracted with independent producers — who did not operate from studios in the traditional sense . |
| 19 | But let me tell you now about just a few of those entries which did not make it to the final but which , nevertheless , had several redeeming features . |
| 20 | The Order proceeded on the basis that ‘ depositor ’ does embrace a person who did not make the deposit but subsequently became entitled to it , by operation of law or otherwise . |
| 21 | The bench heard yesterday that Amos , who did not make an appearance at court , had made only two £5 payments , leaving an outstanding debt of £392.96 . |
| 22 | Leicester , one of the better teams in the division , made only one significant mistake and were mugged of the points by resourceful opponents who did not make any . |
| 23 | Although it appears that you did not make a large sum of money out of your dealing — at least as far as external appearances are concerned — I have to take a serious view of it . ’ |
| 24 | She did not make errors . |
| 25 | But Mrs Gandhi never forgave Khan 's opposition to her scrapping the privy purses , and to his regret she did not make him a minister . |
| 26 | In fact , the gurus of the East teach that the goldfish might well have been your great , great grandmother in a previous existence if she did not make the grade as a human being . |
| 27 | She had turned her head aside and flung her hands over her face ; she did not make the outcry he had expected . |
| 28 | Her Royal Highness wishes it to be known that she did not make the statements attributed to her or anything like them . |
| 29 | She did not make cards for ordinary , daily cleaning , only for the large , special tasks . |
| 30 | Assuming however that the mother 's claim was not valid , or that she did not make it , the question arises whether the justices ought to consider the care being offered by the grandmother in assessing the threshold condition rather than the care which is actually being provided by the mother . |