Example sentences of "and made a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 2 | Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to . |
| 3 | Instead , they could have stayed on the side they were flying and made a right , instead of a left circuit , with height to spare . |
| 4 | The light from the window spilled along her cheek and lips , and made a dazzling star in her glass . |
| 5 | The bold spirits stood and made a show until the muskets cut them down or sent them fleeing . |
| 6 | As he watched , a young lad suddenly stooped behind Stewart and made a piggy-back , another lad shouldered him , and over he went , falling heavily while people nearest roared and laughed . |
| 7 | After all , they 've had their say years ago and made a meal of it : undeclared top-roping , hold chipping , secret rests , etc . |
| 8 | He was awarded the DSO and the military CBE by the British , the Croix de Guerre by the French and made a Commander of the Legion of Merit by the Americans . |
| 9 | He was in demand for the hearing of confessions and made a little chapel for this purpose on the ground floor of his house . |
| 10 | And made a mint out of it . |
| 11 | The doctor smiled quietly , reached for her pad and made a note ; she smiled , walked round the foot of the high couch and came up towards Phoebe left-hand side . |
| 12 | Since a version of this argument was repeated in his broadcast talks and made a linchpin of Lewis 's defence of Christianity , it may be profitable to lay down our books for five minutes as he urged us to do when thinking of a world without chloroform and meditate on what he has laid before us . |
| 13 | Being able to return to William in the evenings brought back a sense of reality and made a difference to the whole trip . |
| 14 | Reisz has recalled that when he broke ranks and made a melodrama , Night Must Fall ( 1964 ) , he was accused of selling out and going commercial . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | After Precious Link had led turning for home in the Peter Cazalet Memorial to score by six lengths from Super Express , Simon Earle , rider of the runner-up , complained that his mount had got unbalanced and made a mistake at the second last because Precious Link had taken his ground . |
| 17 | The next morning , her daughter covered the body with bedclothes and made a barrier , with fencing from the garden , to stop the dogs ‘ interfering ’ with it . |
| 18 | Nicky Henderson 's Mr Gossip justified favouritism and made a winning debut over fences in the second division of the Misletoe Novice Chase but it was only by a head that he got home from Bit Of A Clown , with Bronze Final a head away third . |
| 19 | We went home and made a half-hour colour television programme which was marvellous . |
| 20 | He played only once in that series but was then brought back for the rubber in India and made a big impact , so that when he had Steele 's wicket at Headingley he chalked up his hundredth Test wicket in the record time of two years 144 days . |
| 21 | England duly subsided a second time , the honours going to Downton who was promoted to open in place of Andy Lloyd and made a solid 56 , but wickets fell steadily and 235 all out meant that the victory margin was an innings and 180 runs . |
| 22 | Greenidge was dropped on 6 and made a further 74 , Kallicharran on 25 and went on to 42 , and King was unbeaten on 31 after giving a chance on 5. 215 was the kind of score to promise a close finish , and Boycott , Willey and Larkins saw them well on the way . |
| 23 | He 'd forgotten about the way it flickered before it came on properly and made a noise . |
| 24 | He must have thought there was some likelihood of angels being there , because he describes how he put out his arms in the darkness and made a grab , at thin air as it turned out . |
| 25 | These had been her favourites when she was little but had not of ten been allowed because the sauce oozed out the sides and made a mess of your clothes . |
| 26 | One of the psychologists , who moved into the salesman 's world like witch doctors and made a killing , was Dr Ernest Dichter from Freud 's own city of Vienna , the ‘ father ’ of Motivational Research , whose institute could be hired to help sell anything for $500 a day . |
| 27 | He sold 53,000 copies ( now collector 's exhibits ) and made a profit . |
| 28 | They pinched his toes and rubbed the back of his heels and made a rat-tat sound on the stone flags that echoed through the spooky quiet to announce his presence . |
| 29 | He scrambled to his feet and made a dash for the door , skidding to a halt only inches short of the now frantic bulldog . |
| 30 | This time , she was wearing a hat , which pulled her face back , somehow , and made a line round it , so that she looked older than she had the other night . |