Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] made [det] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I decided I would carry the six-pound loss myself rather than admit to him I 'd made such a fool of myself |
| 2 | ‘ I wish I 'd made that point to the Committee . ’ |
| 3 | Once I 'd made that decision nothing was going to stop me . |
| 4 | I 'd made some mistakes and as far as he was concerned the pottery could have been another . |
| 5 | I 'd made some plans for Rainbow 's next tte — tte , scripted some frank revelations , an impassioned plea … |
| 6 | Erm , so Jan had these butties , she said oh I made them lovingly last night , tuna , mayonnaise and onion and er she said trust Viv to ring today like when I 'd made these butties ! |
| 7 | I was the prime suspect this time because of the Golden Syrup job , and although I knew she did n't have any proof , nothing I said made any difference . |
| 8 | I thought I had made that plain . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I thought I had made that clear , ’ said Wheeler with no attempt at all to disguise his contempt for the Archdeacon . |
| 10 | It was the first time I had made this mistake , but Bamba immediately turned and ran back to us . |
| 11 | Back at the firm , did my colleagues ask if I had made any good deals , ordered too much or made new contacts ? |
| 12 | In that time I had made some friends , gained much self-confidence , and finally lost my hatred of the Reeds . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Maybe I had made some inadvertent noise . |
| 16 | Under the privatisation proposal it was offering almost £14million for the rest of PPFE , which had made little progress since the Hong Kong flotation . |
| 17 | Her willingness to talk verged on a compelling need and after all his previous attempts to gain her confidence , which had made little headway , he knew he must not let such an opportunity pass him by . |
| 18 | It was not a whistle that could have come from human lips , but a chilling scalpel shriek he had heard only once before in the Fifth Dominion , when , some two hundred years past , his then possessor , the Maestro Sartori , had conjured from the In Ovo a familiar which had made such a whistle . |
| 19 | On the heathland of north-west Norfolk many poor men of no military value were ignored until taxed on wages in the subsidy ; above the £1-level people there resembled those who lived farther to the east , except that the outstanding men were great landowners and yeomen , in contrast to the north-eastern district , where peasants were firmly entrenched , usually taking the initiative over enclosure , which had made more progress there . |
| 20 | We 'd just feel happier if we 'd thought you 'd made some provisions for the future . ’ |
| 21 | Charming she thought , feeling acutely humiliated , especially as it drove home the fact that she 'd made little or no impact upon this man . |
| 22 | His words went straight to her heart , and she remembered the private wish she 'd made that day , that Nicolo would tell her he loved her . |
| 23 | Only a few hours later and Fabia was wishing with all she had that she had touched wood when she 'd made that statement . |
| 24 | She 'd made all the beds and done her cleaning , and was feeling like some Bovril herself . |
| 25 | All the reading and yet she was n't even sure she 'd made any progress . |
| 26 | So deep in thought had she been that she reached her destination before she 'd made any definite plans about how to proceed . |
| 27 | Being Mario , that brought to mind his mother crying back in the camps because there was n't enough food to put on the table , and that led to considerations of the importance of the family in his life , of the value of tradition , thoughts of how Italian he was as well as American , of the kind of clean life America had offered , of his gratitude , of his feeling for his father who 'd made this giant move at such cost to himself , who had suffered so long and who now saw some chance for his kids of bettering themselves . |
| 28 | Though relieved at the arrangements she had made that day , Harriet could not help feeling chastened ; and when she entered the back gate of Four Winds and heard the inevitable wailing of her grandchild , her mood deepened to despair that she had not brought up her own daughter to be the kind of helpmeet which she was certain Edna Rafferty would be . |
| 29 | It was the third trip she had made that year , leaving husband , sons and job to visit her father . |
| 30 | I was enormously glad she had made that little speech for the mere sight of Erich — the knowledge that a man who worked as a painter in a Ford Taunus factory and was , in his own way , a type-specimen of Atlantic man , with no known connections with the new Ocean , had somehow fetched up on a remote Pacific island — was disturbing the entire thesis I wished to construct . |