Example sentences of "[pers pn] made [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most interesting show out of London is Miro : Sculpture , which has opened at the Southampton City Art Gallery ; 37 bronzes are on show , each one of them made by a Catalan , anarchist , sex-mad Santa Claus |
| 2 | Although bathed in a sentimentality of its own , the concept appeals to me because it reminds me of a trip I made as a student to the Maison Savoye in the summer of 1957 , when this great Corbusier villa was a ruin surrounded by waist-high grass and nettles . |
| 3 | I wish that the Minister would respond to a point that I made in a debate last week when I spoke of the tragedy that the employment advisory service — available to prisoners both before and after their release — had been withdrawn by the Government . |
| 4 | I decided to make a development of a circular pedestal table that we made for a client last year . |
| 5 | Oh , by the way , ’ Luke said , locking the door behind them , ‘ Bob Tilling in Accounts just happened to mention the other day that you had settled an invoice for a piece we made for a client in Sherwood Forest . ’ |
| 6 | He saw the daft circles they made as a wind lifted the flames and turned them ; he saw their hysterical galloping back and forth , and saw the cherry-red line crackling across the stumps of corn , towing its apron of smoke . |
| 7 | He could never entirely regret it , because it reminded him of working with Willie , and the passing resolves he made as a grown-up to lose some of it always contained a tang of unease about betraying his professional qualifications in the eyes of a man who would have belted him for such a thing . |
| 8 | He made for a line of scrub between two gates and waited until the street outside was fairly clear , then climbed the railings and dropped down . |
| 9 | As soon as we had cleared customs he made for a bank of telephones , and when he rejoined me he was smiling . |
| 10 | At 18 , Couples hooked his drive out of bounds , one of the few mistakes he made on a day that turned cold and windy by the time the five-hour 25-minute round had ended . |
| 11 | All this on top of the irony of an innocent request he made to a man with a radio listening to the cricket immediately he arrived in England after spending time with his family in Barbados . |
| 12 | The sport 's governing body is also considering suing the American athlete for libel over accusations he made during a campaign to clear his name after he tested positive for steroids in Monte Carlo in August 1990 and was subsequently banned for two years . |
| 13 | His new house , built of hammer dressed limestone , with Westmorland slates for the roof , abutted on to the remains of the original house which he made into a service wing , and on the south side he made the grand entrance . |