Example sentences of "[vb past] made [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | Once I 'd made that decision nothing was going to stop me . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I wish I 'd made that point to the Committee . ’ |
| 5 | Only a few hours later and Fabia was wishing with all she had that she had touched wood when she 'd made that statement . |
| 6 | All the reading and yet she was n't even sure she 'd made any progress . |
| 7 | I 'd made some plans for Rainbow 's next tte — tte , scripted some frank revelations , an impassioned plea … |
| 8 | We 'd just feel happier if we 'd thought you 'd made some provisions for the future . ’ |
| 9 | I 'd made some mistakes and as far as he was concerned the pottery could have been another . |
| 10 | Erm , so Jan had these butties , she said oh I made them lovingly last night , tuna , mayonnaise and onion and er she said trust Viv to ring today like when I 'd made these butties ! |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Nothing she said made any difference . |
| 13 | Despite the shock she had received , she could see that what Oswin said made some kind of sense . |
| 14 | Under the privatisation proposal it was offering almost £14million for the rest of PPFE , which had made little progress since the Hong Kong flotation . |
| 15 | By 1907 ITF activity was regarded by the shipowners as sufficiently serious to justify the setting up of an International Shipping Federation " to combat the growing forces of socialism and aggressive trade unionism " , but in reality it had made little progress in establishing international standards and the British market for seamen was still being substantially undercut by lower rates of pay of foreign labour . |
| 16 | A Constitution Drafting Committee , which had been established soon after the formation of the LPDR in late 1975 [ see pp. 27541-43 ] , had made little progress during the LPDR 's first decade . |
| 17 | A Lake Chad Basin commission with representatives of Chad , Cameroon , Nigeria and Niger ( which all bordered on the lake ) had been established in 1964 but had made little progress . |
| 18 | The 10-day round of talks had made little progress by the end of February . |
| 19 | Leaders noted that islanders in the region had made little contribution to the problems which now threaten their way of life . |
| 20 | Lacking adequate finance , information and technical expertise , and saddled with a piece of legislation riddled with loopholes and contradictions , the Institute was faced with an impossible task and had made little headway by the time the political climate changed in autumn 1933 . |
| 21 | Her willingness to talk verged on a compelling need and after all his previous attempts to gain her confidence , which had made little headway , he knew he must not let such an opportunity pass him by . |
| 22 | The 13-member Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPEC ) had made little headway in curbing over-production during 1990 . |
| 23 | The New York Times demonstrated how he had made little impact on the movie world , until that point in time , with the observation that the lawyer Hanson was ‘ … played by Jack Nicholson whose sharp , regular features may be vaguely familiar to kids who go and watch drive-in movies . ’ |
| 24 | Whatever had been achieved by the 1976 Act , it had made little impact on this case except for the removal of her name from the media . |
| 25 | France 's diplomatic successes had made little impact on English opinion , and English military leadership was markedly weaker than it had been during the first phase of the war . |
| 26 | Instantly she defended herself , just as she had when he had made that accusation before . |
| 27 | It was the third trip she had made that year , leaving husband , sons and job to visit her father . |
| 28 | Though relieved at the arrangements she had made that day , Harriet could not help feeling chastened ; and when she entered the back gate of Four Winds and heard the inevitable wailing of her grandchild , her mood deepened to despair that she had not brought up her own daughter to be the kind of helpmeet which she was certain Edna Rafferty would be . |
| 29 | He added that he had made that decision in spite of an embargo on similar junctions after the Bellgrove train crash two years earlier . |
| 30 | I believe a close examination of his recorded opinions , and of the idiom in which those opinions were expressed ( an idiom , even to the end , as much British as American ) , would show that Pound too was not insensible to the ideal of the aristocratic amateur in the arts , and was at least sometimes resentful , just as Yeats was , that political and socio-economic developments had made that attitude to the arts impracticable and sterile . |