Example sentences of "[pers pn] had made [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought I had made that plain . ’ |
| 2 | It was the first time I had made this mistake , but Bamba immediately turned and ran back to us . |
| 3 | In that time I had made some friends , gained much self-confidence , and finally lost my hatred of the Reeds . |
| 4 | It was the third trip she had made that year , leaving husband , sons and job to visit her father . |
| 5 | Though relieved at the arrangements she had made that day , Harriet could not help feeling chastened ; and when she entered the back gate of Four Winds and heard the inevitable wailing of her grandchild , her mood deepened to despair that she had not brought up her own daughter to be the kind of helpmeet which she was certain Edna Rafferty would be . |
| 6 | The landlord was aware of the fact that she had made that application but , notwithstanding that , on 4 December 1989 he applied for execution . |
| 7 | She had made that declaration and that commitment that she would go with her mother-in-law wherever she went that her God , Naomi 's God would be Ruth 's God , and that Naomi 's people , would be Ruth 's people . |
| 8 | It was not that she lacked sympathy for Sarah ; she had made that plain in her letter to John . |
| 9 | On European flights , she felt no such unease ; she had made such excursions recently on behalf of her college fund-raising activities . |
| 10 | She was still not sure why she had made this arrangement . |
| 11 | She told us that she had made several visits to the London Zoo and so was familiar with the appearance of modern apes . |
| 12 | She had made enough money to maintain Cliff Top as the substantial manor house it had become . |
| 13 | Although she had made some photocopies to study later , it was possible that Adam might be able to clear the matter up in a few moments . |
| 14 | She would open them after she had made some coffee . |
| 15 | Whether it was to share his moment of regret at the passing of time , or to express disillusion with Parkin himself — she had made some comment in the car about how he was one of the few television reporters she knew and respected — Dexter did not know . |
| 16 | She had made some preparations for their dinner but she did n't object to going out . |
| 17 | I was sad to leave the boat , we had made many friends despite the trip being only a few hours long . |
| 18 | To the crew it was a routine trip and one they had made many times before by night . |
| 19 | They had made many Hollywood films here . |
| 20 | Had the time come to forget the promise they had made each other , the guarantee they had given never to meet or speak ? |
| 21 | the probation service held their own inquiry to see if they had made any mistakes . |
| 22 | The children themselves appeared , and after a second summer spent playing at the M's farm , and becoming ‘ socialised ’ by contact with that family , it seemed they had made some progress . |
| 23 | The districts were chosen because they had made some progress in care programming . |
| 24 | But between them , he told himself , they had made this nest comfortable . |
| 25 | By 1907 ITF activity was regarded by the shipowners as sufficiently serious to justify the setting up of an International Shipping Federation " to combat the growing forces of socialism and aggressive trade unionism " , but in reality it had made little progress in establishing international standards and the British market for seamen was still being substantially undercut by lower rates of pay of foreign labour . |
| 26 | Whatever had been achieved by the 1976 Act , it had made little impact on this case except for the removal of her name from the media . |
| 27 | Before a prayer had formed itself , a young brown hand covered mine and I looked round to see the turbaned head of the Youngest Son , his face half covered by his head-scarf , his eyes laughing , his whole figure straight against the storm as though he and it had made some truce . |
| 28 | Not that he had made much progress on anything else . |
| 29 | He had made many contacts , many friends , and as he quickly learned the technicalities such as paper-sizes , weights , and the varying processes involved , the business was rapidly developing . |
| 30 | He had made many attempts to put his arms around me , but I had always evaded him . |