Example sentences of "have made a [noun] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the book , though , Zuckerman confronts Roth with the opinion that the latter has made a mistake in trying to tame or to shed his imagination in the foregoing text , that fiction is superior to fact , and that the factuality of The Facts is specious . |
| 2 | Virani has made a fortune from acting as middle-man , between the English property tycoon and the Asian shopkeeper . |
| 3 | The president has made a habit of breaking election promises . |
| 4 | Frank has made a career of knocking on doors , finding the wood is solid and going round the back way . |
| 5 | Anita Roddick has made a virtue of flying in the face of business convention . |
| 6 | ‘ All through The Graduate Nichols thought he 'd made a mistake in casting me . |
| 7 | I 'd feel differently if she 'd made my father really happy , but , believe me , he soon learnt he 'd made a mistake in marrying Bertha . ’ |
| 8 | In his absence she 'd been as nervy as a wildcat , jumping a mile every time someone spoke to her or touched her on the shoulder , expecting him to turn up out of the blue as he 'd made a habit of doing . |
| 9 | He was fair and quite softly-spoken and actually a little shy-looking , and he 'd made a point of taking off his uniform cap when he talked to her . |
| 10 | When they 'd moved in he 'd made a point of telling just about everybody where it was and how much it was costing — wincing a little at the same time , as if he were telling the story against himself and his own folly — but it had become a sterile kind of heaven , and he sat around in it like some forgotten angel . |
| 11 | She 'd made a point of spending every spare minute she could with her . |
| 12 | There was something unique about a hospital over the Christmas period , and most years he 'd made a point of working for as much of it as he could . |
| 13 | His mind is open to the possibility that he might have made a mistake in hiring Stephanie to head Advertising and Promotions . |
| 14 | For example , if you had n't spent so much on a ‘ super duper ’ multi-flange guitar pedal , you could have made a profit by having more band T-shirts on sale at your gigs . |
| 15 | He should have made a point of looking at the evening coverage before doing his own piece ; but he 'd seen the people they 'd sent to the press conference at the hospital , dismissed them as unlikely to do a decent job on it , and promptly forgotten them . |
| 16 | I should have made a point of following up his sickness , thought Cadfael , touched , but I thought he , of all people , would make good sure he got all the treatment he needed . |
| 17 | It is astonishing that he should have made a riposte about housing benefit being available to the poor for housing costs and to have given the impression that he was in favour of housing benefit . |
| 18 | She did n't seem to be looking at the album , at least not any more ; she did n't seem to have made a start at getting ready , either . |
| 19 | ‘ You 've made a fortune by combining your talent for yacht design with a keen business brain . |
| 20 | Then , as her face fell , he added , ‘ However , since Kirsty 's been staying with me I 've made a point of packing up just after five . ’ |
| 21 | Nearly a thousand years ago the first settlers made the Glemmtal valley their home , and ever since they 've made a point of extending a warm welcome to all-comers . |
| 22 | The talks , repeatedly postponed since April 8 apparently because of failure to agree an agenda , soon got into difficulty , although it was reported on May 9 that the MNR had made a concession in allowing relief columns through to Mozambican refugees in Malawi . |
| 23 | You were right to break with him if you decided that you had made a mistake in accepting him , but oh , my dear , your uncle Orrin tells me that he dare not inform your father of the dreadful things Havvie is hinting about you for fear of what he might do to Havvie . |
| 24 | In an article in Capital Gay in February 1988 , Paul Davies argued that lesbians and gays had made a mistake in allowing our politics ‘ to be colonized by the Left ’ . |
| 25 | It would be so simple to check if the doctor had made a mistake in reading her mother 's notes . |
| 26 | I felt like Plain Jane , and Dustin felt they had made a mistake in choosing him for the film in the first place . |
| 27 | He wondered whether he had made a mistake in sending the terrorist away . |
| 28 | That is to say , he could not admit he had made a mistake in siding with the Axis , without jeopardizing his continuation in power . |
| 29 | Some said that Ryan had made a mistake in failing to get everything ready in the block before he sent Sawyer off . |
| 30 | I have already mentioned the argument on this occasion which convinced Lanfranc that he had made a mistake in sweeping the former archbishop Elphege out of the ecclesiastical calendar . |