Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] make [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a year I had worked to make this creature , but now it looked terrible and frightening . |
| 2 | The Ambassador replied that he realized that no statement could be made on this subject and he himself had avoided making any such statement which he felt might prove embarrassing . |
| 3 | She regretted that she had had to make this incoherent and disingenuous speech , partly because , as she went on , she had begun to listen to what she was saying and had realized that at some level her apprehensions about her family were justified . |
| 4 | Frigidity becomes the spectre hovering over this transition , should it not be properly accomplished , and the frigid woman was one who had failed to make this transference . |
| 5 | It was a stupid idea but nothing she said seemed to make any difference . |
| 6 | The girls were very bright with one nine-year-old working on her machine from six in the morning to six at night — so we did manage to make some progress . |
| 7 | In the end he stopped bothering to make any pretence of cuddles , it became fucking pure and simple . |
| 8 | Once or twice he 'd — well he 'd tried to make some sort of advances to her . |
| 9 | It was disquieting , though , the way he seemed to have to make these excuses to himself , as if his conscience which he had , so he thought at the age of sixteen , successfully buried , had suddenly reawakened to plague him , not about the fundamentals of belief and morality but about such comparative trivialities as whether or not one should attend the church bazaar . |
| 10 | When he did try to make some real contribution to society , it seemed that all he got for his trouble was The Prince was too sensitive , too intelligent , to play the part mapped out for him , the part that his courtiers were there to help maintain . |
| 11 | Until his family was safe , he had declined to make any formal statement , but now he went with them to the American Embassy and swore out an affidavit about what he had seen as a DIA agent assigned to DEA NARCOG , Nicosia . |
| 12 | He had planned to make this tour in January , but postponed it because of the Gulf war . |
| 13 | It was a week now since Clarion Call had vanished and , despite backup from Roquelaure , he had failed to make any progress in tracing the whereabouts of the directors of Spidex International Trading . |