Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] make some " in BNC.

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1 I tried to make some enquiries . ’
2 so he said I did , I tried to make some in microwave and he says it turned out like sludge
3 I 'd made some mistakes and as far as he was concerned the pottery could have been another .
4 I 'd made some plans for Rainbow 's next tte — tte , scripted some frank revelations , an impassioned plea …
5 I felt a lot of anger , but there was nothing I could do with it ; then it faded , until I started making some connections with feminism at the beginning of the seventies .
6 So I started making some calls of my own .
7 Three years ago , when I started to make some real money as opposed to all that other stuff I 'd been making , my father hit bad trouble on the tables and the track and he …
8 I struggled to make some sense of this new and appalling complication .
9 I left them together while I went to make some coffee , and when I came back into the room , Shanti was saying , ‘ Patsy , where do I get my big feet from ?
10 when I went to make some jam tarts .
11 It all reminded me of what I received when I dared to make some mild criticism of the habits of cyclists and for much the same reason .
12 Anyway , all I can say is , I did make some notes somewhere , I think I put them in my pocket , or maybe ( silence ) .
13 In that time I had made some friends , gained much self-confidence , and finally lost my hatred of the Reeds .
14 There was one field in particular that I had made some good finds on and I had searched this piece of land time and time again .
15 As I had made some pretty critical remarks about the Soviet Union , at a time the war-time alliance still commanded admiration , especially among the young , he pointed out that if printed , these views would be taken by the Kremlin to be officially inspired .
16 Maybe I had made some inadvertent noise .
17 I felt that I had to make some sort of social effort so I swung my legs off the bed and sat sheepishly on the edge .
18 I had to make some sort of last-ditch stand .
19 I look forward to tackling the Party membership system , I wanted to make some of the sound admin system and modern communication methods which allow this Union to send each new member a new membership card , were introduced to Walworth Road .
20 We 'd just feel happier if we 'd thought you 'd made some provisions for the future . ’
21 She decided to make some changes and embarked on a quest which took her to , among other places , an ashram in Wales and a three-week ‘ Relationships Seminar ’ in Hawaii ( price $8,000 ) run by an American called Chuck Spezzano .
22 But you chose to make some rules .
23 She had made some preparations for their dinner but she did n't object to going out .
24 Whether it was to share his moment of regret at the passing of time , or to express disillusion with Parkin himself — she had made some comment in the car about how he was one of the few television reporters she knew and respected — Dexter did not know .
25 She would open them after she had made some coffee .
26 Although she had made some photocopies to study later , it was possible that Adam might be able to clear the matter up in a few moments .
27 She put the telephone down on the floor and knelt beside it , facing Shildon and saying Tavett was in trouble and she had to make some calls .
28 The Section took over this work from the Treasury ( who had made some embarrassing errors in their calculation ) and submitted detailed proposals for post-war full employment to a Cabinet committee chaired by Anderson in May 1943 .
29 She wanted to make some lightweight remark that would let her out gracefully , but nothing came .
30 She wanted to make some sarcastic retort about his being so bossy , but he was already clearing away the plates , not paying the slightest scrap of attention to her , and she realised that it was this lack of attention that really annoyed her .
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