Example sentences of "[vb past] and make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She spent a pleasant few minutes thinking of her small business where she designed and made exclusive wedding gowns for a rapidly growing circle of customers , but Dana 's early-morning phone call refused to be dismissed . |
| 2 | Once on the first aerodrome , Brueckner stopped and made some excuse about engine problems , saying that he had to try to get a key for the toolbox . |
| 3 | The meadow began to mushroom with tents and huts and the street theatre erupted into an explosion of living history , the performers flinging themselves to the ground and then leaping into the air as and when the idea occurred and making funny faces all the while . |
| 4 | Mr Venables disagreed and made some claim about tastebuds and their ‘ overstimulation ’ . |
| 5 | Mada Joyce had , it seemed , no husband but seven children from three different fathers , each apparently blacker than the one before and the latest , who occasionally visited and made half-hearted repairs to the shack , Nana dismissed as ‘ nothing but pure Negro . ’ |
| 6 | For them it was enough that 1 , a Westerner from a God-forgotten , immoral country , believed and made some attempt to practise . |
| 7 | Mick came and made some tea and sat her down with a cup in her hands and tried to talk some sense into her . |
| 8 | Across the garden , the big yellow dog snorted and made digging motions with his paws . |
| 9 | The demonstrators ' tactic of walking into the police lines , while it was a principled assertion of their right to march , invited the violent response that followed and made further violence much more likely . |
| 10 | He traversed the deserts of Persia and Baluchistan by camel , crossed central Africa at its widest point ( Across Wildest Africa , 1907 ) , and explored the Matto Grosso of Brazil ( Across Unknown South America , 1913 ) where his men mutinied and made two attempts on his life . |
| 11 | They settled on the terrace , Fei Yen busying herself laying out the table while Wu Tsai sat and made pleasant conversation with Tsu Ma . |
| 12 | Occasionally she groaned and made half-hearted kicks at her agonizingly swollen belly . |