Example sentences of "[pers pn] have make [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 None of them has made a hash of things like the British government .
2 This growth of alternative markets for short-term money and the instruments that go with them has made the supply and demand for short-term money extremely competitive .
3 ‘ I can see I 've made a fool of myself again .
4 ‘ Look , you can see I 've made the effort . ’
5 Well , I 'd made no appointment with him , of course .
6 I was proving to the convenor that I 'd made a mark opposite that deliverance on which to call you .
7 I asked why should I bother to do that when presumably if I had set the trap I would expect Harry 's car still to be there after the races , and he just wrote down my answer as if I 'd made a confession . ’
8 Besides , despite the fact that I 'd got a good grade for my speech , I thought I 'd made a bit of a mess of it and was just relieved it was all over .
9 Also , before I did that I 'd made a hoax call saying that Boots ’ chemist was on fire .
10 I realised I 'd made a mistake as soon as he tightened his arms around my neck .
11 ‘ I began to wonder whether I 'd made a mistake over the arrangement .
12 And even if I 'd made a mistake I 'd be honest enough to admit it .
13 For a wild moment I thought I 'd made a mistake , had put it elsewhere , but that was nonsense of course .
14 I do n't like being proved wrong , and there was no way I was ever going to admit I 'd made a mistake .
15 But erm but I thought I 'd made a mistake somewhere .
16 I 'd made a commitment to the Branch Secretaries and to the Representatives that there will be a full Representatives Conference of which those proposals will be debated and discussed .
17 I 'd made a joke of it .
18 So , with this weird combination of reluctance and eagerness , I confessed to her that I 'd made a copy of my cock and a cock tracing and that I 'd put them in her in-box late one night and then thought better of it .
19 I reported last time that I 'd made an approach to Chris .
20 Where 's the corkscrew ? ’ and he 'd answered — dead straight — ‘ What do you want a corkscrew for ? ’ and so I 'd made an excuse and left quickly .
21 " I thought you might want to break off the match after I 'd made an exhibition of myself . "
22 TWO WEEKS after I 'd made an appointment to see Neil Spencer ( editor ) with writing samples and DJ charts from the UK , it was time to hand in my first article for the beloved , much-worshipped NME .
23 I 'd made the decision .
24 how , how well they 've enjoyed it this morning I thought well I wished I 'd made the effort
25 I began to realize how inadequate my picture of Laura was ; that I had made no room in my thoughts for an independent life of her own , let alone one as earthed and pragmatic as the potter 's craft .
26 I had made no arrangements for that first night .
27 I thought within myself , ‘ With what eyes these poets see nature ! ’ and ever after , when I saw the sun-set stream upon the objects facing it , conceived I had made a discovery , or thanked Mr Wordsworth for having made one for me !
28 I wanted to shout after him that I had made a mistake and that I had really understood him very well .
29 But I had made a mistake and not put the fellow 's name and address in my book .
30 ‘ But over a couple of months of pilot programmes , I simply felt I had made a mistake by leaving .
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