Example sentences of "[pers pn] had made a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I had made a ridiculous fuss about nothing . |
| 2 | It is as if I had made a small betrayal . |
| 3 | It certainly was n't too late to tell somebody that in fact I had made a terrible mistake and that I wanted to go home . |
| 4 | I suddenly realized I had made a serious mistake . |
| 5 | Well , for one thing , he did n't know about it and I had made a conscious decision that if I was ever to be ( he nearly says ’ become someone ’ ) . |
| 6 | They thought I had made a huge mistake in getting rid of the old collection in preference for collecting what they unanimously regarded as ‘ junk ’ . |
| 7 | I had made an interesting discovery . |
| 8 | She had made a firm promise . |
| 9 | She felt she had made a right fool of herself . |
| 10 | The horse made another noise , more a groan than a grunt this time , and , as his stride faltered , Kelly knew that she had made a serious mistake . |
| 11 | Oh , lord , she inwardly groaned ; if this was Vendelin Gajdusek , then she had a rather unhappy feeling that she had made a terrible start ! |
| 12 | It was quite another to feel she had made a complete fool of herself and taken her daughter alone so far from the safety of Four Winds . |
| 13 | She had made a complete fool of herself and had successfully lived down to every low opinion that Piers harboured about her . |
| 14 | I asked if she had made a separate tension swatch for the stocking stitch , to which she replied yes and that although she used stitch size 7 for the Fair Isle and 5.2 for the stocking stitch , it had matched exactly ( ? ) . |
| 15 | Davidson , who had previously been married for a total of less than five years to three different wives , said after falling for Tracie that she had made a new man of him . |
| 16 | She had made a new life for herself now in London , a better , much more successful life than Dublin . |
| 17 | Susan and Gay were the people she liked best in the world , and when her father died she had made a mental vow that she would do everything in her power to make life happy for this sister of hers who had worked so hard and shown such courage . |
| 18 | She admitted she had made a dreadful mistake and appealed for a reconciliation . |
| 19 | As she revealed to writer Sherwood Anderson , she had made a conscious decision to limit the type of image she believed had been most susceptible to critical misreadings in 1923 : |
| 20 | She had made a lengthy visit with him to Italy in 1664–5 and enjoyed the company of learned men , including G. W. Leibniz . |
| 21 | She had made a big mistake , but now it was over . |
| 22 | She had made a wrong choice a year ago , had put Steve and her career before the man she loved , but there had been more to it than that . |
| 23 | She knew that she had made a fatal mistake . |
| 24 | Nor could he avoid reminding Charlotte of the hopeful turn Colin 's case had taken — a turn to which she had made a significant contribution — while her niece 's plight seemed only to worsen by the day . |
| 25 | Despite her defiant words , though , she had the feeling that she had made a bad mistake during these last few minutes . |
| 26 | In the difficult job of getting through one 's life happily , she had made a bad start . |
| 27 | One afternoon we had made a forced march around the local countryside with our rucksacks on . |
| 28 | The hotel had much to keep youngsters occupied , but by day three we realised we had made a bad mistake in taking such a young child skiing . |
| 29 | He explained that we had made a grave error — it was Saturday afternoon . |
| 30 | Indeed , it was in a mood of celebration rather than panic that the garotters were actually toasted for having ‘ taken upon themselves the duty of upsetting a whole fabric of amiable delusions ’ concerning the reformation of criminals , and further congratulated that through their ‘ inexcusable crime ’ they had made a salutary impact on public opinion and ‘ created a general belief that right and wrong are , after all , essentially distinct ’ . |