Example sentences of "[adv] made a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rovers were 2-0 in the opening 15 minutes through Morrissey and John Aldridge and perhaps made a rod for their own backs by scoring so early and then failing to add to that lead until the 77th minute through Neil McNab . |
| 2 | Alford was none the less made a deputy lieutenant of Sussex in 1627 , his services being considered essential to the defence of the county . |
| 3 | in all honesty ans answer what he said , you more or less made a statement and said yes I am er but I , I know all about the products and I 'll give you best advice . |
| 4 | Thou hast done wonders in a little time , not only made a rake a husband but thou has made a rake a preacher . |
| 5 | The Farm have not only made a record fit only for hurling out onto the M25 , they have exposed themselves as humourless , directionless THICKOS . |
| 6 | Not surprisingly , they believed they had only made a stab at it , From the start Wave and HHCL were determined to build the campaign around an organisation with a sound commercial and practical justification for funding such advertising ; someone with a vested interest in curbing consumer greed . |
| 7 | Most students , in fact , not only made a distinction between arts and science , but also believed in a hierarchy of different disciplines , with ‘ fundamental ’ , ‘ useful ’ subjects like physics at the top and ‘ wishy-washy ’ humanities subjects at the bottom . |
| 8 | ‘ No , I 've only made a guess , ’ he returned coolly . |
| 9 | His rich guest merely made a sound , unable clearly to articulate a word with his mouth as wadded as a feather pillow . |
| 10 | Yevtushenko , for example , apparently made a howler in one of his poems about the American nightingale . |
| 11 | At some point in February 1986 Poindexter apparently made a decision , crucial to the story , not to tell the President about the plan to divert Iranian arms money to the contras . |
| 12 | In creating one she has inadvertently made a move towards alternative methods of selling that could have great significance for organic farming . |
| 13 | Linford Christie , Stuart Pearce , Mark Cox , former England and G.B. Hockey Goalkeeper , John Hurst , and Linda Keough , a Commonwealth Games 400m silver medallist , have all made a commitment to support the Puma Schools Challenge , an innovative idea involving 150 schools in the Hertfordshire , North London and surrounding counties . |
| 14 | ‘ One has long made a habit of beheading his wife at intervals in what is now my study : the other , a lady named Madam Sharpe , drops rings and other small objects into a china basin in my dressing room … . |
| 15 | Last year Dillons got John Mortimer on a holiday weekend , which was not good timing , but it has since made a niche for itself with local books . |
| 16 | When Hankey explained that , since the war , he had ‘ rather made a point of not voting ’ , to emphasize his detachment from Party politics , the King replied , ‘ But this time it is different . |
| 17 | But that the the leader of the house effectively made a statement in Prime Minister 's questions on the same issue , misleading the house into believing that the government were actually applying this money to patient care rather than to meeting their own political incompetence . |
| 18 | Cohen had meanwhile made a surprise afternoon announcement to the press in London that the US government was " recommending that the forces of the EPRDF enter the city as soon as possible to stabilize the situation " . |
| 19 | In 1936 it looked as if the game had finally made a breakthrough when a national competition , involving teams from Gorky , Minsk , Baku and Moscow , was organised ; but someone at the Kremlin decreed that rugby was a capitalist pastime , and the game sank into oblivion once again . |
| 20 | Newman , John Henry ( 1801–1890 ) A foremost leader of the Oxford Movement within Anglicanism , Newman later converted to Roman Catholicism and was finally made a Cardinal before his death . |
| 21 | For a year and a day the boy did not work and hardly ever spoke but one day when he was watching his father fashion a sword for an important chief he exclaimed " That is not the way to do it " and taking the tools soon made a sword the like of which was never seen before , and so began the famous Islay swords . |
| 22 | She 'd already made a bit of a name for herself , only locally but you know what the Germans are about music , and the district party bosses liked romantic pieces so she became the star turn at their more respectable booze-ups . |
| 23 | Greenpeace , the environmental pressure group which had already made a name for itself by chasing whalers on the high seas , sent its own vessel , the Rainbow Warrior , to shadow the nuclear ship out into the Atlantic . |
| 24 | A sort of cross between Kurt Cobain and a Fraggle , James has already made a name for himself in the office for dancing around and waving his arms wildly while he talks , not forgetting the regular swishing back of that blond mop . |
| 25 | Bowie has already made a name for himself as an actor in a string of top movies , including The Hunger and The Man Who Fell To Earth , but this is the TV break he has been waiting for . |
| 26 | She had been a feature writer here for two years and at twenty-five she had already made a name for herself . |
| 27 | I think also there was the sense that the sorts of books that a lady was expected to write were perhaps rather different from the sorts of books that a gentleman is required to write , and George Eliot had already made a name for herself as a writer of erm considerable independence of mind who , I think , wanted to be regarded as a writer , rather than as a lady novelist . |
| 28 | David 's already made a will , has n't he ? |
| 29 | If you have already made a will , it is worth reviewing it with your solicitor every few years . |
| 30 | After all , you 've already made a dollar out of me , and you did n't abscond with that . ’ |