Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Betty 's letter said , ‘ Last year , as he was going to take part in the World Championship in Canada , he asked me to make some gold socks to match his waistcoat .
2 Dad kissed me on the forehead and asked me to make another pot of tea and he sat down in his chair and smoked a quiet pipe of tobacco looking happier than he had for days .
3 They 'd got ta be secure as you could imagine and er not easily picked , if you follow what I mean and er yes , made I made four locks for Lord 's cricket ground .
4 Thus , in Dorchester Finance Company Ltd v Stebbing , two non-executive directors were held to have been negligent in equipping an executive director with signed blank cheques who used them to make unrecoverable loans .
5 He found himself making imploring promises to God then retreated into hating himself and Maxim of course .
6 Agrippa claimed he used it to make sure wine was free of poison , though I do n't think it was possible for Agrippa to die .
7 While they ate he made polite conversation , avoiding with care any of the deeper , more important issues that needed to be talked about and resolved .
8 But as European and Japanese business turned their attention to the US market their relatively low wage costs allowed them to make substantial inroads .
9 Theorists can now solve the problems of solid-state physics in terms of the local structure , whereas previously they could deal only with materials where the complete structure was periodic and crystalline symmetry allowed them to make colossal simplifications .
10 I felt that she may have either directly or indirectly encouraged him to make this decision for several reasons : she was suffering ; she knew that he was n't going to leave the hospital and she accepted that ; and she did n't like seeing him talk himself into more suffering for him and for her ; and I do n't think there 's any question that in some sense she must have gotten this across to him that he ought to give up much more than anyone else .
11 ROCK drummer Mitch Mitchell won substantial libel damages in the High Court yesterday after a book claimed he made racist comments to Jimi Hendrix when he played in his band , the Experience .
12 Moreover , histopathological examination of fundic argyrophil cell growth allowed us to make several observations .
13 In the years that followed I made many flights with those ‘ intrepid bush pilots ’ and watched the development of aviation in Canada .
14 Wakelate left the room , and Cleo heard him making gruff remarks through the privy door on the landing outside .
15 She heard him making little noises with his lips and tongue as if preparing to speak .
16 He taught her to make easy corn dollies .
17 Frank Grimwood sat down , watched her making big business of cleaning her spectacles .
18 Indeed one 's own reason for looking to this community was presumably that , as a Christian , one needed oneself to make some reference to Christ .
19 Most papers did not mind , however , for the government restrictions kept their paper and printing costs low and enabled them to make good profits from the big demand for advertising space .
20 When the water boiled she made more tea in the silver pot , refilled the milk jug , found clean cups and a plateful of almond biscuits , and carried the tray back to the terrace .
21 This understanding enabled him to make sound judgements in selecting the work of young children for display to teachers , revealing its natural qualities for them to recognise .
22 He thought he made some kind of strangled gasp ; he knew his eyes would have expressed his emotions .
23 Did I make any deals , brush up any publishing contacts ?
24 But when and how did I make this escape ?
25 Did you make that mess there ?
26 ah , thank you you made the suggestion , to whom did you make that suggestion ?
27 Did you make this mark on her neck ? ’
28 Did you make this thing ?
29 And , she added jokingly , did you make any money ?
30 So how did you make any friends ?
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