Example sentences of "[coord] made [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now one of the comments of Pausanias is that before a battle the Celts neither employed a Greek soothsayer nor made sacrifices according to national custom — if indeed , as Pausanias pointedly remarks ( 10.21.1 ) , there is such a thing as Celtic divination . |
| 2 | They used the doctor 's appearance and concern as a reason for stopping the interview and made plans to return the next morning . |
| 3 | The old lady took all her money out of the bank and made plans to leave Sheffield the next day . |
| 4 | At the same time , we cut back on proposed capital expenditure and made plans to repay borrowings . |
| 5 | You became decently engaged and made plans to get married six months or a year ahead , and in the meantime you lived decorously at home with your parents . |
| 6 | John Hayward was already assiduously collecting Eliot 's letters and drafts for inclusion in what he called the " Archives " and Virginia Woolf noted in her diary that he had acquired a certain kind of writer 's egotism and made remarks like , " Coleridge and I … " |
| 7 | Her remark that she could always have stayed home and made cookies has discomfited Republicans , not least Barbara Bush . |
| 8 | The waiter , a cocky Italian who flicked his buttocks at her at the least opportunity , eyed her patronisingly and made attempts to chat her up in feeble English . |
| 9 | White liberals have recognised the problem and made attempts to recruit black parents in the 1970s ( ABAFA , 1976 ) . |
| 10 | In recent years the generative linguistic community has recognised this failing and made efforts to produce more general systems that can form the basis of further research . |
| 11 | This concern was also based in Switzerland and Kentucky and made moves to expand in the Fort Knox area until the intervention of James of Universal Export . ’ |
| 12 | came unto the workmen and beat and terrified them , threatening to kill them , if they would not leave their work , threw some of them in the river and kept them under water with long poles , and at several other times , upon the Knelling of a Bell , came to the said works in riotous and warlike manner , divided themselves into companies , to take the workmen and filled up the ditches and drains , made to carry away the water , burned up the working tools and other materials of the Relator and his workmen , and set up poles in the form of gallows , to terrifie the workmen and threatened to break their arms and legs , and beat and hurt many of them and made others flee away , whom they pursued to a town with such terror and threats , that they were forced to guard the town . |
| 13 | The justices adjourned the matter for the trial to take place on June 19 , 1991 and made orders prohibiting publication of the defendant 's name and address and those of his business and the allegations made against him . |
| 14 | I said that I thought it would be alright and made arrangements to meet him again at the church on the following Saturday afternoon to discuss details . |
| 15 | He did not relish a repeat performance , and made arrangements to stay overnight . |