Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] made [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they should know that anyway , or I made that point yesterday , so er th the point they quoted was that erm erm rang up the team and got told no you 've got ta put it on a fax , find it hard to believe that that was if that was the manager on the phone but it 's just important that the people on the team know who the senior managers are . |
| 2 | I did make the point that Mr Maxwell 's company wants co-operation on the eastern edge of the City , vis-á-vis their football stadium , and we ought to have some co-operation on the western edge of the City where all these houses are boarded up and empty , bought at double the market value , and I made that point publicly . |
| 3 | Apart from the accumulation of translated index cards , Edward and I made little progress , but our humour was good . |
| 4 | My son spent a year at Liphook Junior School , during which time my husband and I made frequent visits to discuss our concerns regarding this apparent lack of progress . |
| 5 | I felt she desperately needed my help , and I made frequent visits and tried innumerable remedies I consulted my colleague Siegfried on the problem and he suggested a diet of charcoal biscuits . |
| 6 | E/A kept on steady course at about 220mph until attacked , when he dived down to sea level at about 250–280pmh [ sic ] and I made two attacks one at 16000 when E/A took slight evasive action by executing gentle turns . |
| 7 | Sasbach was no exception and I made good progress with Pascal 's Pensées . |
| 8 | The snow improved as the slope steepened and I made good time up the 100 metres to the ridge top and along to the ‘ summit ’ . |
| 9 | However the one thing that you must never do is to go between a cow and her calf and I made this mistake one morning and I had to take to my heals and run . |
| 10 | And then I , and I made this bit of a faux pas , I says , oh you must have got a very good rate , cos I knew she 'd been retired years and years , you see . |
| 11 | Then dad and I made some cakes and I put notices about the sale through the neighbours ' doors in Swadlincote in Derbyshire , where we live . |
| 12 | There was , of course , a great deal of fun as well , and I made some contribution to the musical life of INSEAD by setting up an 11-piece band which played at the summer ball amongst other events . |
| 13 | I was present at the public meeting at Hutchison Crossway on 26 Nov. and I made some comments , warmly welcoming the proposals and asking about the upgrading of a parallel cycle route . |
| 14 | I thought she meant her sons had died in the war and I made sympathetic noises . |
| 15 | Okay and you made six sets of |
| 16 | He asked her to come back as suited her to sign her statement , and she made all kinds of difficulties about when this would be possible . |
| 17 | The most important of these was the Save the Children Fund ( SCF ) ; Nina Boyle went to the USSR in 1921 to work in an SCF famine-relief programme , she wrote articles for SCF publications , and she made frequent speeches as a representative of the organization . |
| 18 | We put up posters , we persuaded work colleagues to vote Labour and we made financial contributions . |
| 19 | Edinburgh district council estimated the cost of clearing the backlog at £25.5 million and we made that allocation to it over a two-year period . |
| 20 | And we made two cars one big and one small . |
| 21 | We called ourselves January — so inspiring — and we made this record which sold 3000 copies . |
| 22 | Our profits are disappointingly small in relation to , er er , the , er first half of last year er then , we had buoyant conditions and we made more money than we ever had before . |
| 23 | They disliked having so young a couple in the vicarage and they made that plain . |
| 24 | Well I , I , as I say , I did follow it up and in fact , I even went to a committee where I sat and spoke to the er the police face to face and they made all sorts of promises but nothing materialized . |
| 25 | peters also introduced him to small-boat cruising and they made many cruises between Marblehead and the Canadian border . |
| 26 | I designed and made the drawings for some jigs and we made them I 'd two or three men with me and they made these jigs and them underneath the sets . |
| 27 | Gloucester never got themselves into gear and they made hard work of what should have been a straightforward game … in the second half they hammered away at Scottish … all but lived on their line but failed to get over it … |
| 28 | AWARD-winning Belfast agency , A.V. Browne turned in a significant increase in sales , despite curtailment of advertising budgets last year , and they made another milestone in another direction . |
| 29 | Lord Berner 's Triumph of Neptune was another work he conducted quite frequently over a long period , and he made two recordings of the ballet suite . |
| 30 | His adoption of classical atomism was , consequently , not a wholesale one , and he made various changes in its basic principles . |