Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] clear " in BNC.
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1 | His face was without the offensively avuncular smile that usually accompanies such trite statements ; and something intent about the look he gave me made it clear he did not mean it tritely . |
2 | bought the wagon round , yeah I made them clear the site cos well actually it 's twelve being as , they are a bit stained |
3 | When I spoke I made it clear that I intended to do something about the position of the ‘ early leavers ’ and that I thought it right that people should not suffer if they transferred their pension from one job to another . |
4 | ‘ I made it clear I could not comment in case I prejudiced proceedings . ’ |
5 | So much to that I made it clear to my club that I would like to be selected as a tighthead ’ . |
6 | Also , I believe I made it clear that I knew what I wanted from a partnership with a sponsor and was precise and convincing in my presentation . |
7 | At the start of my current relationship , I made it clear that sexual exclusivity was important to me . |
8 | I was unresponsive and kept joking with him about it — but I made it clear I was n't interested . |
9 | I made it clear that I wanted our discussion that morning to focus on business matters , but I realised that she had a need to talk to someone , preferably someone discreet . |
10 | I suspect that the hon. Gentleman had framed his supplementary before hearing my answer to his question , in which I made it clear that the number of nurses who were employed during that period was far greater than the number who qualified . |
11 | However , I am prepared to confirm that in my evidence to the Select Committee I made it clear that the regional electricity companies were obliged to purchase the most economic electricity on the market . |
12 | I made it clear on a number of occasions over recent years that there was , in retrospect , one change that I wish we had not made at the time , but it was one that was urged on us by right hon. Gentlemen opposite . |
13 | That is why , among other matters , I made it clear that , in the appropriate circumstances , we would expect to operate the provisions — through state scheme premiums — to ensure that people at least receive their state earnings-related pension scheme entitlement . |
14 | I have no announcement to make about that at present , but , as the hon. Gentleman will have heard , I made it clear that the discounts would apply to water and sewerage . |
15 | When I was considering the applications from Foresterhill and others , I made it clear that I would not approve an application unless I was personally persuaded that the criteria would be met . |
16 | No , I made it clear . |
17 | I made it clear on 27 November that we intend to bring forward proposals for Sunday trading once the legal position is clear . |
18 | I made it clear in my 1985 Opus article and in my 1988 Early music article 3 that ‘ Metronome marks for the slower minuets also appear in the twelve earlier Mozart symphonies Czerny edited . ’ |
19 | I made it clear that our policy was to use that money to reduce the level of the council tax over that period of time . |
20 | Th I , I thought I had it clear , and now I 'm slightly confused as a result of an answer that you gave , and I 'm not quite clear again . |
21 | She made it clear that she wished their relationship to continue , but could nor tolerate Charles 's violent outbursts . |
22 | His mother summoned him ; she made it clear that she wished to see him alone . |
23 | She listens to him more than anyone , and it was his will which prevailed when she composed last year 's Christmas speech , in which she made it clear that she would never abdicate . |
24 | ‘ She made it clear no decision had been taken and she was going to look at the Tomlinson Report with a totally objective view , ’ he said . |
25 | She made it clear ( I do n't remember how ) that she wanted to go to the back of the house , to the kitchen . |
26 | From the start , she made it clear that as long as I could be of use to Jean-Claude she would tolerate me , but that my relationship with her son was in her gift and subject to her approval , and this might not always be forthcoming . |
27 | Before us she made it clear that she was faced with an appalling dilemma . |
28 | She made it clear she was making hay while the sun shone . |
29 | Perhaps when she made it clear he 'd got the wrong woman he 'd be sorry … |
30 | No wonder she made it clear to Shelley that she was wasting her time . |