Example sentences of "made that " in BNC.

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1 And yet how few of us have made that pilgrimage !
2 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 .
3 Having worked as an agent , I always take care of Dire straits ' concert bookings and I have made that sort of mistake with them .
4 By coming to the house on Sunday Moran had made that stretch of road like all roads .
5 When the various negatives are put together , a case can begin to be made that sport is a destructive influence on American public life .
6 Tell that story to one of America 's many grumblers about Japanese investment and the response is that Mr Dukakis would never have made that mistake at a Japanese firm : he would have been able to tell the difference .
7 An earlier appeal-court ruling had made that distinction , but the lords did not .
8 Many horses are aggressive , but fortunately few are mean , and those that are have most frequently been made that way by people .
9 A lot of people have made that mistake and the kids think ‘ Hang on a minute , we 're just beginning to like that stuff ’ , then you change to something completely different .
10 But having made that reservation I would like to press the analogy between drama and game even closer .
11 There were affairs inevitably , and important friendships were made that year .
12 Implicitly , many decisions may have been made that disadvantage older people .
13 Anhydrite in minor quantities has been reported at different Devonian horizons in two wells in France and Belgium , and in more substantial thickness in the Dinantian in Belgium ( Massa and Oudin 1980 ) ; intriguing speculations have been made that halite might be present deeper in the Namur and Dinant basins .
14 It was agreed that the face of the medal should show the head of Coleman , and the first awards were made that year .
15 I think if I had had more time to myself when I first retired I would n't have made that mistake and would have looked for interests nearer home .
16 He had made that appointment five days ago and it was one that he would keep .
17 In the soul-searching and breast-beating following the defeat , many statements will be made that Labour had the best campaign and was ‘ winning the argument ’ .
18 We have made that concession to modern times . ’
19 He has made that very clear . ’
20 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 .
21 At this point I do n't think they have made that decision .
22 He insisted : ‘ I could not have made that statement .
23 It was the third trip she had made that year , leaving husband , sons and job to visit her father .
24 In an effort to reduce overproduction of food , the suggestion has been made that land in lowland Britain be taken out of agricultural production and forested .
25 Remember that you will have been out enjoying yourself and you will still have made that lovely garter stitch sweater as well .
26 Big-hearted Dudley Thomas immediately left his courtroom and returned minutes later clutching the wrapped sandwiches his wife had made that morning .
27 This is not always the case , though — I once had a kestrel that I 'd decided from its plumage was a male and it turned out to be a female , and although this has never happened to me with a barn owl , I know people who 've made that mistake .
28 I was enormously glad she had made that little speech for the mere sight of Erich — the knowledge that a man who worked as a painter in a Ford Taunus factory and was , in his own way , a type-specimen of Atlantic man , with no known connections with the new Ocean , had somehow fetched up on a remote Pacific island — was disturbing the entire thesis I wished to construct .
29 And you 've made that plain enough . ’
30 After we 've made that hole in the top we 'll lift the fuselage high enough to drain most of the water from it . ’
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