Example sentences of "[noun] and made a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mosbacher , 64 , like Bush a native easterner who moved to Texas and made a personal fortune in oil and gas , had served as Bush 's national finance chairman in 1988 and was once again expected to concentrate on financing the campaign . |
| 2 | She crossed her eyes and made a face . |
| 3 | For a moment Ben seemed about to say something , then he dropped his eyes and made a small movement of his head . |
| 4 | Robyn closed her eyes and made a tremendous effort . |
| 5 | The bird stretched its neck and made a sudden loud trilling noise like a fire alarm . |
| 6 | Madame Gebrec screwed up her mouth and made a dismissive gesture , as if to avoid contact with something unpleasant . |
| 7 | He re-directed it to the sales department and made a mental note to have a word with the post room ; it was about time that they got their act together . |
| 8 | SIR — At last I have achieved a life-long ambition and made a citizen 's arrest . |
| 9 | Wherever she was , upstairs , in the garden , in the quiet little back room overlooking the hedged side-patch of grass , she always seemed aware of his entry and made a point of leaving what she was doing to greet him . |
| 10 | During three weeks ' leave in England he resigned his Trinity scholarship and made a conscious decision to return to Spain for the duration of the war . |
| 11 | I at once seized my astrolabe and made a careful note of the time of full eclipse , which was a little more than three-quarters of an hour after the eleventh hour of the night . |
| 12 | I managed the skirt and made a start on the top , I did not find it easy with holding , four colours to change and the pattern to cope with . |
| 13 | We removed the harness from the horse and made a rough bier for the King 's corpse . |
| 14 | He reined in his horse and made a gesture with one hand that took in the flat dead wasteland and the strangled trees and the black barrenness . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Mrs Mantini did not upbraid her , but she pursed her tangerine lips and made a great thing of getting ready to go out in a hurry . |
| 17 | Early this morning colleagues , you may recall that from the South Western Region came to the rostrum and made a point concerning Black Wednesday . |
| 18 | However , following a strong opening on Wall Street , the market forgot political uncertainties and made a modest rally , closing the day up two point seven at two O three O point seven . |
| 19 | The manager , warmer than ever now , bustled down the aisle and made a short but moving speech about power-cuts and projectors , then asked us to bear with him . |
| 20 | On the CPS front , the CPS/GLS continued with their application under section 31 notwithstanding the advice given by the Advisory Committee and made a submission to the Lord Chancellor and the four designated judges seeking disapproval of paragraph 402(1) ( c ) of the Bar 's Code of Conduct . |
| 21 | He finally came to a halt and made a sweeping gesture with his arm designed to encompass the array of canvases on the wall . |
| 22 | He scrambled to his feet and made a dash for the door , skidding to a halt only inches short of the now frantic bulldog . |
| 23 | I jumped to my feet and made a motion for him . |
| 24 | He three-putted from three feet and made a double-bogey at the very first hole . |
| 25 | Scrambling , she got to her feet and made a grab at the kitchen knife at the sink . |
| 26 | Ashton had tried to see him out after that , and even wanted to shake hands with him , but Steven had spat at his feet and made a rude sign at him . |
| 27 | I 've I 've got a knitting machine and I worked out how to do it on my knitting machine and made a cot blanket for my newest grandchild and it does really look very effective . |
| 28 | and pulled him into the machine and made a right mess of his arm . |
| 29 | WAITERS at an Indian restaurant have swapped plates for microphones and made a rap record . |
| 30 | He used rather old fashioned diction and made a parade of old fashioned manners . |