Example sentences of "[pron] had made [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the nets in use were those I had made myself . |
| 2 | In front of the fire she kept a dark tab rug that she had made herself from scraps of different-coloured material . |
| 3 | She really wanted him to teach the swimming , believing that they might achieve for Nails , even if only because they were frightened not to ; that was the reason she had made herself be nice to him , inviting him to come up when Miss Bedwelty came . |
| 4 | Joe smiled tolerantly at the man who had made himself his friend . |
| 5 | And when her maids had got her dressed and done her hair and she had breakfasted by her tall windows overlooking her manicured rose-garden and a green , daisy-starred meadow , she had nothing to alarm her throughout the day but the possibility of a visit from the formidable Mrs Covington-Pym or the awkwardness , as she took her carriage-exercise , of encountering the wife of her dear friend Mr Adolphus Moon who had made himself so very agreeable . |
| 6 | An Astropath on board a barge bound on the long slow haul from Karkason to the dwarf partner star , Karka Secundus , had chanced to eavesdrop on a telepathic message from the mining world to one of those agric planets that Sagramoso had seduced , using pirates paid with power crystals as his emissaries — pirates who had made themselves scarce with their illicit starships when the crusade had come through the Warp to Karka 's Sun . |
| 7 | It was not until one had made oneself ridiculous by days of suspicion and over-cautiousness in the camp that one realized how hopelessly less dramatic was the truth . |
| 8 | The parents of one boy , Moses Bentum of Bexley , south London were rejected because , according to the council , they had made themselves homeless by defaulting on the mortgage payments . |
| 9 | Therefore it had made itself a ladder . |
| 10 | Yesterday 's meat and vegetables had been high — soft and sweet with badness — he had made himself swallow it and then in the night the shite had poured out of him until he was too weak to stand . |
| 11 | He looked at her carefully to see he had made himself clear , then resumed his search through the file . |
| 12 | He had made himself prime ministerial : adopting double-breasted suits and gold-rimmed spectacles , shortening his sentences and restraining his instinctive jerks of the head . |
| 13 | He had made himself an internal picture of me and now only examined it against my external appearance ’ . |
| 14 | When she returned from the kitchen he had made himself comfortable on the sofa . |
| 15 | Benjamin was clearly an ambitious and careful man , neither dissolute nor spendthrift , and was probably very conservative in every way ; he had made himself respectable in Victorian terms , generating enough of a cash surplus by a lifetime of hard work and good fortune to build up that stock of 3 per cent Bank Annuities and accumulate a healthy balance with the London Provident Savings Bank . |
| 16 | Better , even , than he had made himself . |
| 17 | He turned to the entries he had made himself . |
| 18 | The only appointment of significance which he had made himself was that of Neville Chamberlain as Chancellor , and that had been done only two days before the beginning of his holiday . |
| 19 | He had carried the day , of course , for although in fourteen years he had made himself supreme King in Alba , he was born to the north , and from Moray to the northernmost island of Orkney he was the leader men trusted and knew . |