Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] clear " in BNC.
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| 1 | He slumped to the floor and she tried to drag him clear . |
| 2 | This would wreck the sense of the entire poem : Wordsworth tried to make it clear that ‘ the gleam ’ refers to an illusion which the poet has now seen to be wrong . |
| 3 | I did not want anyone to think I was a Yahoo , so I tried to make it clear that my habits were very different from theirs . |
| 4 | I tried to make it clear at an early stage my petition is a simple , straightforward one not involved with wildlife management , history or anything else like that , I simply believe that killing animals for fun is morally wrong . |
| 5 | Like as not he would n't even recognize her , and he 'd made it clear she was merely one of a number of girls who accommodated him . |
| 6 | I 'd made it clear that by the time I reached sixteen I wanted out — I could n't get out any sooner because no school in London would have me . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought I 'd made it clear . ’ |
| 8 | We thought we 'd made it clear that it was only the MPC ( Multimedia PC ) versions of either card ( that is the SoundBlaster Pro and the Adlib Gold ) gave access to both MID and WAV file playing . |
| 9 | He 'd made it clear enough after all that he did n't expect her to hang about as he had another date . |
| 10 | He 'd made it clear right form the start just how he regarded her — as a brash and brassy nightclub singer , nothing else . |
| 11 | I did n't know how long it was , could n't feel as far as the end , and I could n't always judge how much space I needed to keep it clear . |
| 12 | No , I assure you of that but , well , for one thing the Elsie I knew made it clear to me that she wished to make a new life for herself , start more or less from scratch . |
| 13 | Pitman yanked him back on to a true line and managed to steer him clear of the rails , but the two hundred yards he had left to run seemed like two hundred miles , and Red Rum was now only five lengths back . |
| 14 | I did not threaten to resign but I did make it clear that I would not endorse changes I could not justify . |
| 15 | And once she was sure I would n't — because I did make it clear , you know , that I had no intention of doing more than agreeing to the legal business — she felt safe again . ’ |
| 16 | Of course , you did make it clear that I had n't disturbed a lovers ’ tryst out there by the lake , so I 'm curious to know what did send you rushing through the grounds in such a state of agitation ? ’ |
| 17 | Pius XI had made it clear in 1930 , subsequent to the success of the Vatican-Italian Concordat of 1929 , that good sons of the church with political power were to look to the church itself for guidance in their statesmanship : |
| 18 | Lucy had made it clear , if only by silence , that talk of love panicked her . |
| 19 | The head of the Bonn Chancellery , Rudolf Seiters , said the West German government had made it clear that it could not make any concessions regarding its embassies in other countries and that no East German would be turned away from any West German mission abroad . |
| 20 | Three times he had made it clear to MacDonald that he did not wish to accept his resignation — on the morning of Sunday 23 August , when he told MacDonald that he would ‘ advise them ( the other two party leaders ) strongly to support ( him ) ’ ; at 10.20 p.m. on the evening of the same day , after the Cabinet meeting , when the King ‘ impressed upon the Prime Minister that he was the only man to lead the country through this crisis and hoped that he would reconsider the situation ’ ; and at the Buckingham Palace conference itself . |
| 21 | Although Mr Grant , of Barkingside , Essex , had made it clear these were children accounts he was twice advised his name should be put first . |
| 22 | Mr Moore had made it clear he wanted a sterner system . |
| 23 | I think you had made it clear that Mr Yeo very much valued her . |
| 24 | Although — it had to be said , in all fairness — the Colonel had made it clear that it was Elisabeth 's mind that attracted him . |
| 25 | He had expressed so often the depth of his love and had made it clear to me that I had given meaning to his life . |
| 26 | However , the government had made it clear that there would definitely be a public inquiry into this first example of the new design and that it would thoroughly investigate all the economic and safety arguments . |
| 27 | Not only that , but the Conservative government had made it clear that its policy in support of nuclear power remained unfaltering . |
| 28 | But because Hinkley C was seen as a virtual ‘ replica ’ of the Sizewell design , the NII had made it clear from the start that it had no major reservations . |
| 29 | Wakeham had made it clear when he took over from Younger as her team manager that the campaign must be conducted more vigorously , with Cabinet ministers taking a much more active part in it . |
| 30 | Furthermore , Mr Farraday had made it clear that he planned to hold only very rarely the sort of large social occasions Darlington Hall had seen frequently in the past . |