Example sentences of "[vb past] made [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three of the schools visited made regular use of a video recording of The Machine Gunners as a basis for a further topic work . |
| 2 | Just because she 'd made one mistake … |
| 3 | I mean obviously once she 's been through the learning process herself , so Doug came away feeling quite pleased that he 'd made that contact and he also sort of made one or two , he , he had one or two wise observations I think about the evening , he made one or two new contacts himself and the suggestion and things , he spoke very well about it , at our committee on our last meeting last week |
| 4 | Once I 'd made that decision nothing was going to stop me . |
| 5 | His words went straight to her heart , and she remembered the private wish she 'd made that day , that Nicolo would tell her he loved her . |
| 6 | ‘ I wish I 'd made that point to the Committee . ’ |
| 7 | Only a few hours later and Fabia was wishing with all she had that she had touched wood when she 'd made that statement . |
| 8 | She got a lodger and she , the lodger said she 'd made five phone calls . |
| 9 | I 've got a handout for this one , What would you and your family have to give up in retirement if you 'd made inadequate provision ? |
| 10 | You would have the right only if you 'd made good use of your experience of life . ’ |
| 11 | All the reading and yet she was n't even sure she 'd made any progress . |
| 12 | He 'd thrown rocks at windows of offices and works they 'd sacked him from , he 'd defaced buildings , scratched officials ' cars and mutilated bonnet mascots ( though that was largely for his own safety ) and he 'd made bomb-hoax telephone calls . |
| 13 | After 6 months of specialist treatment here at the National Spinal Injuries Unit , doctors said they 'd made miraculous progress . |
| 14 | Detectives leading the hunt for Mrs Campbell 's killers said today they 'd made vital progress . |
| 15 | Detectives leading the hunt for Mrs Campbell 's killers said today they 'd made vital progress . |
| 16 | The fresh air she breathed made pure blood for you , and often during the day she wondered what you would be like , whether your eyes would be blue or brown , and prayed God to make you a good child . |
| 17 | And Celie , I was so tired and sleepy and full of chicken and groundnut stew , my ears ringing with song , that all that Joseph said made perfect sense to me . |
| 18 | I was the prime suspect this time because of the Golden Syrup job , and although I knew she did n't have any proof , nothing I said made any difference . |
| 19 | Nothing she said made any difference . |
| 20 | Despite the shock she had received , she could see that what Oswin said made some kind of sense . |
| 21 | The women had made great play with brooms and buckets , sweeping the pavement around the policeman 's feet till he was forced to jump over them to avoid being floored . |
| 22 | Already it had made great play of how it had saved certain famous churches from its own bulldozers by moving them out of the path of destruction . |
| 23 | She had made great capital out of a fortnight 's bus tour to Lake Garda . |
| 24 | The CNAA , he and others believed , had made great progress in improving the standards of business studies , and had begun to do the same for management studies , but ‘ the job of improving management studies has hardly begun . |
| 25 | In mid-October a breakthrough seemed imminent after senior trade officials from Canada , the EC , Japan and the USA , meeting in Ontario on Oct. 17-18 , claimed that they had made substantial progress in resolving the deadlock ( responsible for the suspension of an earlier round of talks between US and EC officials in Brussels on Oct. 11-12 ) . |
| 26 | Even his great friend and business partner in the Second Dominion , Hebbert Nuits-St-Georges , called Peccable by those who knew him well , a merchant who had made substantial profit from the superstitious and the woebegone in the Second Dominion , regularly remarked that the order of Yzordderrex was less stable by the day , and he would soon take his family out of the city , indeed out of the Dominion entirely , and find a new home where he would not have to smell burning bodies when he opened his windows in the morning . |
| 27 | Both Edward I and Edward II had made substantial use of the traditional feudal levy for raising an army , summoning all tenants-in-chief of the crown to serve unpaid with a set quota of men for forty days . |
| 28 | He mentioned oil , chemicals , engineering and electrical engineering , all of which had made solid progress . |
| 29 | Bob went on from there , season in , season out , to the end of 1931–32 , by which time he had made 293 League appearances for Crystal Palace ( a club record at the time , but of course they did not make much of such things in those days ) and even today , almost 60 years later , there are fewer than only half a dozen Palace men who have played more times for us than that . |
| 30 | It was Britain which had made sure finance ministers would be at the summit so the recovery talks can go ahead , he said . |