Example sentences of "[pron] have make [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know it sounds bizarre to say that when someone has made an awful lot of money and had a lot of fame and adulation , but you can wreck their minds , you can wreck their self-ego and esteem by giving them the whole wrong picture of themselves by pretending they are good at one thing when they are not and boosting other things . |
| 2 | I remember before that the wind changed pretty suddenly from southwest to nearer west I think and I 'd made a new hen house I thought indestructible . |
| 3 | At first it looked as though I 'd made a big mistake . |
| 4 | On the day I left Woodline you knew that I 'd made an enormous mistake , yet you — ’ |
| 5 | But if so I felt that I had a chance of retrieving the situation , once I 'd made the Fraxillian delivery . |
| 6 | I was so afraid tonight when you did n't show up that I 'd made the biggest mistake of my life in letting you go back to England without trying to extract a promise from you . ’ |
| 7 | We all just sat there like Mickey Mouse was dead or something , and then we got on the train and went back home and did n't say anything to each other , and all the kids at school thought I 'd made the whole thing up . |
| 8 | Perhaps I had made a ridiculous fuss about nothing . |
| 9 | It is as if I had made a small betrayal . |
| 10 | It certainly was n't too late to tell somebody that in fact I had made a terrible mistake and that I wanted to go home . |
| 11 | I suddenly realized I had made a serious mistake . |
| 12 | Well , for one thing , he did n't know about it and I had made a conscious decision that if I was ever to be ( he nearly says ’ become someone ’ ) . |
| 13 | They thought I had made a huge mistake in getting rid of the old collection in preference for collecting what they unanimously regarded as ‘ junk ’ . |
| 14 | I had made an interesting discovery . |
| 15 | Then I too realized I had made the right decision to stay put in hospital . |
| 16 | I should still have thought that in securing him from Bolton Wanderers I had made the best bargain of my life . ’ |
| 17 | As I said , I was somewhat annoyed in view of the definitive nature of the arrangement I had made the previous day , and the fact that no explanation or apology had been forthcoming . |
| 18 | I had to make a polite pretence at reluctance . |
| 19 | But I had to make a bigger adjustment to studying . |
| 20 | So I said I had to make a quick decision either I was going to go up me chain past his whatsit and into the roof , or else go thirty feet down and run right across the chamber into whichever er level they could go to . |
| 21 | They dragged me to the Police Station where I had to make a detailed statement of everything that had happened the first time intercourse took place . |
| 22 | I had to make an instant decision , so I steered Foinavon to the right — the outside — to get away from the main part of the melee . |
| 23 | To tell my story : because I was very conscious that out of the static situation of the servant being the one who was menacing the Judge I had to make an ongoing story . |
| 24 | As a result , I had to make an expensive taxi journey to arrive at the meeting on time . |
| 25 | I 've made a great deal of progress , as you can see . ’ |
| 26 | Since then I 've made a new start . ’ |
| 27 | I 've made a new term planner actually but I 've forgotten to bring it . |
| 28 | I 've lost count of the times I 've made a good catch and returned the next night ( or day as the case may be ) only to blank or , at best , catch a fraction of the previous night 's catch . |
| 29 | I 've made a complete fool of myself and I do n't think I can bring myself to ask what I came to . " |
| 30 | Well possibly and less likely to enjoy it , I mean I 've made a complete failure of my life , so I 'm , I 'm not and I never really enjoyed from the beginning I must say |