Example sentences of "[vb past] make [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | For a moment she could n't think what he meant , then she remembered with dismay that she 'd already asked him to join her and Elaine and a few of the island friends they 'd made on the new power-boat Stephen had treated them to as the hotel neared completion . |
2 | It was the decision she 'd made on the silent journey back to the hotel , and one she intended to keep . |
3 | It was the first in a series of brutal references to the ‘ Jewish Question ’ which Hitler came to make during the following years . |
4 | When on two occasions Ewen turned to make for the open sea , Neil , increasing our speed slightly , held on to what looked like a collision course . |
5 | Erm I would imagine Tukuse that the the difference that you put in difference that you would get between the reportage , to use a French expression , of Princess Diana 's abdication from public life was probably quite pronounced between say for example the Sun newspaper and the Independent newspaper I would imagine that the Independent newspaper probably did n't play in any great significance , it was probably on the front page , perhaps not with a picture but erm there was a couple of columns of report erm the Independent is famous as being the newspaper which when Prince Charles and Lady Diana got married many years ago , they reported it with a single paragraph saying Prince Charles and Diana , the whole world went made at the Royal Wedding and the Independent had one paragraph , which many people , including myself , said right on . |
6 | This was seen by some as an attempt to improve his image abroad after remarks which he had made during the presidential election campaign to the effect that he was " untainted " with Jewishness . |
7 | He showed pictures of a recent trip he had made along the Cumbrian Way . |
8 | And so , she said , ‘ You seem to have been busy this morning , Isabel , ’ but absently remembering the bumping noises from above and the journeys her sister had made to the front sitting room ( locking the door after her ) and back again to the attic ( locking the door ) . |
9 | He did n't know ‘ what statement Mr. Gibbon had made to the other gentlemen or what reasoning they could have employed so as to sign a paper declaring the fact of urinous vomiting to be utterly impossible — here I must be at issue with them believing as I do … from my little physiological knowledge , that vomiting of urine for 26 weeks is by no means impossible … ’ . |
10 | In recognition of the enormous contribution that their Service had made to the successful conclusion of WWII , the Air Council set up after the war a war memorial committee . |
11 | He made a series of trips to Algeria reminiscent of those that he had made to the French provinces in the autumn of 1944 . |
12 | They said that something had to be done to put right the mess which the Government had made of the Self-Governing Schools etc . |
13 | The Foreign Office requested an assessment from the War Office in December 1949 to clarify or confirm the analysis the Foreign Office had made of the respective strength of the two sides . |
14 | On that first morning after transmission , none of the production team had the slightest idea of the impact the film — well , Hannah Hauxwell — had made on the general public . |
15 | The comprehensive victory of the National government showed how little impact fascism in particular and political extremism in general had made on the British public by 1935 . |
16 | Almost the first experiments I had made with the passive avoidance model after completing the work with Marie , and even before we had located IMHV and LPO as the sites of change , looked at the effects of training on protein synthesis in general , using the precursor techniques that have already been described in earlier chapters . |
17 | Bernard immediately renewed a contact he had made with the Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation ltd ( ICFC ) to secure a loan , the company 's first major borrowing . |
18 | His mother was bending over the baby in the basketwork cradle his father had made for the first Wooldridge child , and she was mopping the fevered little body with a damp cloth . |
19 | He closely questioned Charles Lisner , who had come from Australia to join the Sadler 's Wells Ballet , about a ballet which Laurel Martyn had made for the Victorian Ballet Guild using that score : her subject matter , general treatment and what Lisner thought of the ballet . |
20 | I had nothing against Dr Hill , except that he seemed to me an entirely incongruous appointment that Harold had made for the wrong reasons . |
21 | In spite of the sacrifice it had made for the High Dam at Aswan , whose turbines generated megawatts of electrical power , Wadi Half a still had no electricity . |
22 | He decided the wisest course was to pool all he had made over the last two years , enabling Julian to purchase the lease of a high street property . |
23 | Turning to the specific task on hand , he commended the gas turbine division as a whole for the great strides it had made over the last few years and stressed the important role that LTS had played in the division 's growth . |
24 | He had burned it himself on the fire he had made against the fruit-garden wall and it might be that no copies of it existed , yet in his mind 's eye it recreated itself , the child for ever stilled , its face a waxen mask , the old doctor haggard with sorrow and lack of sleep , the mirror no breath had misted held in his hand , the parents in each other 's arms . |
25 | Few of the cast would have seen him in the revues of the late thirties where his career started , but they would all have caught up with the films he had made in the immediate post-war years . |
26 | Springfield and Fenton pulled back the flaps of the cut they had made in the chain-link fence , allowing Grant and Larsen to duck through into hostile territory . |
27 | It drew upon a series of speeches he had made in the late autumn , particularly an address to an all-union student forum . |
28 | Afterwards he was haunted by the sound his footsteps had made in the brooding post-dawn silence , the crunch and crackle of his shoes breaking ice . |
29 | The heirs of the executed and forfeited rebels lacked the means and the backing to use force to regain what their fathers had lost , and the enemies Edward had made in the extreme north by concluding a truce with the Scots were in no position to make their influence felt . |
30 | Within days Charlie had lost all the profit he had made in the past year and suddenly found himself back to square one . |