Example sentences of "[pers pn] had make [det] " in BNC.

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1 I thought I had made that plain . ’
2 ‘ I thought I had made that clear , ’ said Wheeler with no attempt at all to disguise his contempt for the Archdeacon .
3 It was the first time I had made this mistake , but Bamba immediately turned and ran back to us .
4 Back at the firm , did my colleagues ask if I had made any good deals , ordered too much or made new contacts ?
5 In that time I had made some friends , gained much self-confidence , and finally lost my hatred of the Reeds .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Maybe I had made some inadvertent noise .
9 And I had to make all these er computations out and er I made fifty that I thought nobody could pick .
10 I had to make several trips every day , carrying one bucket on my head and another resting on my hip .
11 Its reflection on the water surface of the river at Abingdon advanced towards me , in this case not exactly to my feet because I was up on the bridge , but whatever else I managed to achieve in the picture I had to make this plane of the river advance .
12 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 .
13 I had to make some sort of last-ditch stand .
14 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 .
15 It was the third trip she had made that year , leaving husband , sons and job to visit her father .
16 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 .
17 The landlord was aware of the fact that she had made that application but , notwithstanding that , on 4 December 1989 he applied for execution .
18 It was not that she lacked sympathy for Sarah ; she had made that plain in her letter to John .
19 There had been no one there for her when she had made that terrible discovery .
20 She had made that declaration and that commitment that she would go with her mother-in-law wherever she went that her God , Naomi 's God would be Ruth 's God , and that Naomi 's people , would be Ruth 's people .
21 She had made all the running , with the present disastrous result .
22 She laid her coat across a table then stood , not knowing what to do , wondering irritably why she had made such a fuss about coming …
23 No wonder she had made such a fool of herself by fainting in the middle of Luke 's proposal .
24 On European flights , she felt no such unease ; she had made such excursions recently on behalf of her college fund-raising activities .
25 There was a terrible urge within her to just run away and hide , curl up into a tiny ball and forget that she had made such a stupid , stupid mistake by allowing herself to fall in love with someone as ruthless and cold as Luke Denner .
26 A fortnight after she had made this earth-shattering discovery she was amazed when he stuttered out an invitation to the cinema .
27 She was still not sure why she had made this arrangement .
28 She told us that she had made several visits to the London Zoo and so was familiar with the appearance of modern apes .
29 She tore across the dealing room , then up three flights of stairs , screaming that she had closed Sir Willie , and that she had made several thousand pounds in that one day .
30 B begins by offering her view as something which should be of interest to the others : " I 'll tell you now " : she had made several previous attempts to interrupt with " let me tell you " .
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