Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] make the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But 100-metres champion Linford Christie failed to make the 5.40 pm showdown and his dream of a sprint double died . |
| 2 | After a nightmare trip to a hairdresser , Susan Newby decided to make the salon pay for its mistakes |
| 3 | But Friend had made the garden-master . |
| 4 | Edward had made the same objection . |
| 5 | Edward had made the necessary signals , and received the necessary instructions . |
| 6 | Their friends could only feel that death was merciful in the circumstances , especially with war imminent , and that Molly had made the closing months of their lives very happy . |
| 7 | According to the report , Syria had made the arms deal a condition for repaying an estimated US$1,000 million in military debts to Czechoslovakia . |
| 8 | It was in this way that Galle came to make the first sighting of the planet now known as Neptune . |
| 9 | Moses had made the arduous climb to the top of the mountain , but on the summit he did not experience God himself but a thick cloud of unknowing . ’ |
| 10 | And at 0800 BST , a mere 19 minutes after Rebecca Stephens had made the summit and secured her place in history , the Press Association flashed the news — ‘ Rebecca Stevens reached summit of Everest ’ — to the world . |
| 11 | First , that it was only part of a larger scheme , yet Hope had made the point that the new Foreign Office should conform to a larger plan . |
| 12 | However , in the end it had seemed as though Ross had made the decision for her . |
| 13 | The calling continued for a few moments and then , with a cry of ‘ bitch ’ , to her horror , Nicky Scott Wilson began to make the most blood-curdling noise as he bayed her name to the night sky , like a wolf . |
| 14 | Throughout the Sixties , the Manager and his Chief Engineer Alan Williams struggled to make the trams economic and resisted attempts to close them down completely . |
| 15 | Lizzie had made the pudding , a concoction of cream , egg-white and rum ; she had made the salad and put the jacket potatoes in the oven . |
| 16 | Auguste and Sid had made the mistake of sharing a machine . |
| 17 | Sir John Cockroft , the Director of Harwell , had won a Nobel Prize for his 1932 work where , with the prototype high energy nuclear accelerator , he and Ernest Walton had made the first artificial disintegration , or fission , of atomic nuclei . |
| 18 | Robert had made the mistake of looking Hasan up in the work in question , at the end of which he had almost decided to call in an exorcist with some experience in the Islamic field . |
| 19 | They were considered , both of them considered , both of them considered erm but it is my recollection that erm been the inference that Mr had made the telephone calls himself . |
| 20 | Rachael Read admitted making the threat in a phone call to Dalton Barracks at Abingdon in Oxfordshire . |
| 21 | At the same time , Hawker Siddeley offered to make the one I would use , and other firms donated equipment and food . |
| 22 | Nicolo had made the arrangements by telephone . |
| 23 | Her God had made the dark at the same moment as the light . |
| 24 | Paula intended to make the most of every one of them . |
| 25 | But not only Cii-Honeywell Bull failed to make the grade . |
| 26 | In many states , the political framework could be described as ‘ constitutional monarchy ’ , but only Spain and Sweden shared the two-party conflict with which Great Britain seemed to make the system work . |
| 27 | The English had come to France encouraged to make the most of a lack of united opposition to them . |
| 28 | McIllvanney enjoyed making the accusation . |
| 29 | Faccenda had made the mistake of not having such an express term in their employment contracts . |
| 30 | Kim Kennedy , mitigating , said Cardwell denied making the threats and also did not accept making the number of calls alleged . |