Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] made a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | At first it looked as though I 'd made a big mistake . |
| 3 | Perhaps I had made a ridiculous fuss about nothing . |
| 4 | It is as if I had made a small betrayal . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I suddenly realized I had made a serious mistake . |
| 7 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ At first I was prepared to think you 'd made a genuine mistake — that you 'd got the wrong boat . ’ |
| 10 | So you 'd made a verbal contract over the phone with a lady who you found living on the premises so you had every right to believe that she owned the furniture . |
| 11 | ‘ Stella said you 'd made a huge difference to the place . ’ |
| 12 | She was feeling as if she 'd made a long , exhausting hike instead of just the kilometre or so that she 'd actually walked , but it was n't a bad feeling . |
| 13 | She 'd made a helpless gesture with one beautifully manicured hand . |
| 14 | She 'd made a funny face . |
| 15 | Did he imagine she 'd made a special attempt to impress him ? |
| 16 | Of course , she 'd made a big fuss about not having a Brownie ‘ Nuform ’ , but she calmed down when Mum let her wear her new blue party dress . |
| 17 | She had made a firm promise . |
| 18 | She felt she had made a right fool of herself . |
| 19 | The horse made another noise , more a groan than a grunt this time , and , as his stride faltered , Kelly knew that she had made a serious mistake . |
| 20 | Oh , lord , she inwardly groaned ; if this was Vendelin Gajdusek , then she had a rather unhappy feeling that she had made a terrible start ! |
| 21 | It was quite another to feel she had made a complete fool of herself and taken her daughter alone so far from the safety of Four Winds . |
| 22 | She had made a complete fool of herself and had successfully lived down to every low opinion that Piers harboured about her . |
| 23 | I asked if she had made a separate tension swatch for the stocking stitch , to which she replied yes and that although she used stitch size 7 for the Fair Isle and 5.2 for the stocking stitch , it had matched exactly ( ? ) . |
| 24 | Davidson , who had previously been married for a total of less than five years to three different wives , said after falling for Tracie that she had made a new man of him . |
| 25 | She had made a new life for herself now in London , a better , much more successful life than Dublin . |
| 26 | Susan and Gay were the people she liked best in the world , and when her father died she had made a mental vow that she would do everything in her power to make life happy for this sister of hers who had worked so hard and shown such courage . |
| 27 | She admitted she had made a dreadful mistake and appealed for a reconciliation . |
| 28 | As she revealed to writer Sherwood Anderson , she had made a conscious decision to limit the type of image she believed had been most susceptible to critical misreadings in 1923 : |
| 29 | She had made a lengthy visit with him to Italy in 1664–5 and enjoyed the company of learned men , including G. W. Leibniz . |
| 30 | As it was , she had made a big enough fool of herself already . |