Example sentences of "[pers pn] have made a " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of them has made a hash of things like the British government . |
| 2 | ‘ I can see I 've made a fool of myself again . |
| 3 | I asked why should I bother to do that when presumably if I had set the trap I would expect Harry 's car still to be there after the races , and he just wrote down my answer as if I 'd made a confession . ’ |
| 4 | At first it looked as though I 'd made a big mistake . |
| 5 | I realised I 'd made a mistake as soon as he tightened his arms around my neck . |
| 6 | Besides , despite the fact that I 'd got a good grade for my speech , I thought I 'd made a bit of a mess of it and was just relieved it was all over . |
| 7 | So , with this weird combination of reluctance and eagerness , I confessed to her that I 'd made a copy of my cock and a cock tracing and that I 'd put them in her in-box late one night and then thought better of it . |
| 8 | I 'd made a joke of it . |
| 9 | I was proving to the convenor that I 'd made a mark opposite that deliverance on which to call you . |
| 10 | Also , before I did that I 'd made a hoax call saying that Boots ’ chemist was on fire . |
| 11 | ‘ I began to wonder whether I 'd made a mistake over the arrangement . |
| 12 | I 'd made a commitment to the Branch Secretaries and to the Representatives that there will be a full Representatives Conference of which those proposals will be debated and discussed . |
| 13 | And even if I 'd made a mistake I 'd be honest enough to admit it . |
| 14 | For a wild moment I thought I 'd made a mistake , had put it elsewhere , but that was nonsense of course . |
| 15 | I remember before that the wind changed pretty suddenly from southwest to nearer west I think and I 'd made a new hen house I thought indestructible . |
| 16 | I do n't like being proved wrong , and there was no way I was ever going to admit I 'd made a mistake . |
| 17 | But erm but I thought I 'd made a mistake somewhere . |
| 18 | And I followed this with a suitably modest smile to indicate without ambiguity that I had made a witticism , since I did not wish Mr Farraday to restrain any spontaneous mirth he felt out of a misplaced respectfulness . |
| 19 | I thought within myself , ‘ With what eyes these poets see nature ! ’ and ever after , when I saw the sun-set stream upon the objects facing it , conceived I had made a discovery , or thanked Mr Wordsworth for having made one for me ! |
| 20 | I wanted to shout after him that I had made a mistake and that I had really understood him very well . |
| 21 | Perhaps I had made a ridiculous fuss about nothing . |
| 22 | Not surprisingly I have never heard from any of them since , although I felt that I had made a number of new and lasting Russian friendships that night . |
| 23 | Prior to writing the script , I had made a list of the cast , designated local actors for the various roles and had them called for the 2pm ‘ woodshed ’ run-through . |
| 24 | But I had made a mistake and not put the fellow 's name and address in my book . |
| 25 | ‘ But over a couple of months of pilot programmes , I simply felt I had made a mistake by leaving . |
| 26 | I had made a start in Burmese at the School of Oriental Languages in London , going up from Stepney for a weekly lesson , so I could read haltingly and use a score or more greetings and questions , which deceived the kindly village people into thinking that I knew more than I did , with the result that an opening sentence of mine would elicit a whole string of Burmese from which I would only pick up a word or two . |
| 27 | They thought I had made a huge mistake in getting rid of the old collection in preference for collecting what they unanimously regarded as ‘ junk ’ . |
| 28 | It certainly was n't too late to tell somebody that in fact I had made a terrible mistake and that I wanted to go home . |
| 29 | I had made a flask of tea and some sandwiches but had run out of milk at home , so I brought a stoppered bottle along planning to buy some milk in Keld . |
| 30 | ‘ The full weight of the Children 's Department came down on us for that scene and , in retrospect , I realised I had made a mistake letting that go through . |