Example sentences of "[pers pn] had make a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I had made a ridiculous fuss about nothing . |
| 2 | It is as if I had made a small betrayal . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I suddenly realized I had made a serious mistake . |
| 5 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | I had made an interesting discovery . |
| 8 | I had to make a polite pretence at reluctance . |
| 9 | But I had to make a bigger adjustment to studying . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As a result , I had to make an expensive taxi journey to arrive at the meeting on time . |
| 15 | She had made a firm promise . |
| 16 | She felt she had made a right fool of herself . |
| 17 | Crown counsel informed defence counsel of an inconsistency between the sister 's testimony and her first statement without showing him that statement or revealing that she had made a second statement confirming the first statement in that respect . |
| 18 | Worse still , after she had made a little money from the publication of a pamphlet containing her beastly poems about him , she commissioned a rubber dress from ‘ her designer ’ . |
| 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 . |