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 " . |