Example sentences of "[vb past] made [adj] [noun] " 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 | But it seemed to me you 'd made certain assumptions … ’ |
| 3 | He 'd made major strides in establishing the kind of company he wanted , which was n't the kind of company David wanted , and I think David saw that when he got to New York . |
| 4 | ‘ But whenever we left him in his cot and then went back to him , we 'd notice that he 'd made terrible scratches on his face with his fingernails and he would rip the backs of his legs with his toes . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | You would have the right only if you 'd made good use of your experience of life . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | After 6 months of specialist treatment here at the National Spinal Injuries Unit , doctors said they 'd made miraculous progress . |
| 9 | Detectives leading the hunt for Mrs Campbell 's killers said today they 'd made vital progress . |
| 10 | Detectives leading the hunt for Mrs Campbell 's killers said today they 'd made vital progress . |
| 11 | Well and they 'd made little buns . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Other regimes had made tentative steps towards amelioration ; what distinguished the Emperor 's plan from the preceding ones was its all-over view of the problem — urbanization based on urban planning . |
| 15 | Paisley and I issued a joint statement spelling out that the authorities had made inaccurate claims about the shooting and referred to the information in the forensic report . |
| 16 | The government had made serious proposals during 1988 about reforming the graduate assignment system because of its glaring inefficiencies . |
| 17 | Certainly the boards we studied in more depth had made serious efforts to understand their duties and responsibilities . |
| 18 | The Authority was less successful in its attempt to ensure that disciplinary proceedings were brought against a detective superintendent , whose early retirement from the Metropolitan Police in 1989 meant that he avoided questions about his links with drug smuggling and criminal gangs , queries that had arisen after a World in Action television programme which had made serious allegations about corruption in the London police . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In his letter Prawiro said that Indonesia had made great efforts to forge a relationship with the Netherlands after " an exceedingly painful historical past resulting from centuries of inhuman colonial subjugation " . |
| 22 | She had made great capital out of a fortnight 's bus tour to Lake Garda . |
| 23 | Despite the market uncertainties and many other problems there were a number who had made great strides and it seemed that many would succeed . |
| 24 | Magnus , said Pinchbeck , had made great strides under his predecessor , Rick Haythornthwaite , developing the asset management system which has resulted in greater teamwork and enhanced empowerment of the individual . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | David had made great friends with them because they would come into his apartment at night and he would sing them songs and things . |
| 27 | The industry 's many critics had made great demands and threatened many a crisis but they had not halted the growth of the movies as mass entertainment . |
| 28 | While I was in the Gulf , one of our teachers vanished temporarily after a call to a colleague in which he had made disparaging remarks about members of the local royal family . |
| 29 | He had made various bids at drawing her out , to no avail ; now he felt in sympathetic collusion — thus had he survived his own schooldays . |
| 30 | These results were backed by solid gains at local elections and it became clear that the Nationalists had made substantial inroads into the Labour vote , at any rate between general elections . |