Example sentences of "have made a [adj] [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each of these three groups has made a first report at the time this Chapter was written . |
| 2 | His name was Roger , and he 'd made a few stabs at conversation in the course of the night . |
| 3 | But Jan Peerce makes a very coarse and unromantic Alfredo , and Licia Albanese , who might have made a good shot at the role of Violetta under more sympathetic direction , sounds particularly nervous and unsettled . |
| 4 | She knew that he did n't much care for André , but he could at least have made a better attempt at disguising it . |
| 5 | Nenna felt that she could have made a better hand at answering Louise if only Edward had taken the trouble to return her purse . |
| 6 | oh and I 've made a big rug at the centre , which I shall have home before Christmas , a big woollen rug I 've made , yes so , oh it 's a beautiful rug it 's with those er silver thing you push through the hole on the canvas |
| 7 | Observers attributed the almost unanimous endorsement primarily to the united stand taken by the politburo ; even the leading conservative politburo member Yegor Ligachev had made a cautious speech at the plenum giving his backing for reform and democratization of the party . |
| 8 | In response to the many toasts from his American colleagues he had made a light-hearted speech at dinner , which belied his deep disappointment at being sent back to the States on a Public Relations assignment . |
| 9 | Spartan Missile had made a bad mistake at the eighteenth and Thorne was giving him plenty of time to recover . |
| 10 | The house had been built by a mill owner who had made a comfortable fortune at the woollen mill which straddled the river Pleshey a mile or two west of Lulling . |
| 11 | The widely publicised work of Basil Bernstein had made a large public at least aware of the possibility that pupils ' response to the process of education might be limited by their habitual uses of the mother tongue . |