Example sentences of "[vb past] made the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if so I felt that I had a chance of retrieving the situation , once I 'd made the Fraxillian delivery . |
| 2 | Now for a moment I wondered if he 'd made the entire story up — the elusive animal , the bizarre hunting technique . |
| 3 | Laura had never had any doubts that she 'd made the right decision . |
| 4 | We all just sat there like Mickey Mouse was dead or something , and then we got on the train and went back home and did n't say anything to each other , and all the kids at school thought I 'd made the whole thing up . |
| 5 | I took him out for a boozy lunch , and in the end he admitted he 'd made the whole thing up . |
| 6 | Perhaps she 'd made the wrong choice , after all , she was thinking . |
| 7 | I was so afraid tonight when you did n't show up that I 'd made the biggest mistake of my life in letting you go back to England without trying to extract a promise from you . ’ |
| 8 | She 'd made the oldest mistake in the book , had n't she ? |
| 9 | The case had made the front page ; eight column inches in the bottom right-hand corner : |
| 10 | ‘ But who knows what would have happened if we had made the early breakthrough tonight ? |
| 11 | I should still have thought that in securing him from Bolton Wanderers I had made the best bargain of my life . ’ |
| 12 | The third was Private Eye 's Adrian Mole-style Diary of John Major , which it was claimed had made the Prime Minister such a figure of ridicule that it might be a significant factor in his losing this election . |
| 13 | He and colleagues reviewed 70 referral letters from general practitioners and , not surprisingly , found that only 27% of the general practitioners had made the correct diagnosis . |
| 14 | An SFA selection committee had made the odd decision to pick a team months before the finals and conspired to select a pool of only 13 players which barely reflected the best talent available . |
| 15 | Nobody since the first Napoleon made his Corsican brothers kings of half Europe had made the political code of the Latin world of the Mafia so obviously the basis of his policy as Nicolae Ceauşescu . |
| 16 | But both authors recognise that experience in office in the coalition government had made the Labour leaders more cautious than they would otherwise have been : Dr Marwick comments that ‘ Middle-class radicalism and official trade unionism were much stronger influences than left-wing Socialism ’ , and Dr Addison speaks of an ‘ Attlee consensus ’ to which the Conservatives , when they returned to office in 1951 , also subscribed . |
| 17 | At the same time he found it interesting that prison had made the former district governor more passionate about the cause championed by Akhenaten . |
| 18 | Moses had made the arduous climb to the top of the mountain , but on the summit he did not experience God himself but a thick cloud of unknowing . ’ |
| 19 | The rural district council relied on the assumption of responsibility by the corporation in 1945 , while the corporation denied responsibility for the former rural district families and claimed that the 1956 Housing Act had made the rural district council responsible for all the families in the camp . |
| 20 | It was a fine bright day and he felt sure he had made the right decision . |
| 21 | Then I too realized I had made the right decision to stay put in hospital . |
| 22 | ( Schlesinger had made the right decision , because The April Fools , finally directed by Stuart Rosenberg , was a real failure . ) |
| 23 | But at half-past seven the next morning they knew they had made the right decision . |
| 24 | The few moments that Merrill spent in front of the mirror told her that she had made the right decision to wear the black dress which exposed one bare shoulder . |
| 25 | Imagine if your local electrical store allowed you to take a TV home for a month to sample its quality before parting with your money , you would be sure you had made the right decision before it cost you the earth . |
| 26 | She had made the right decision to first appease Rainald . |
| 27 | She had known as soon as they had arrived at the lodge that her heart had made the right decision , even though it felt irresponsible and utterly childish to be spending a summer like this , at her age , and after all the work she had done to put the initials MD after her name . |
| 28 | Hank silently drank down his beer , and hoped he had made the right move in telling his father . |
| 29 | She had decided on making her career in industrial nursing after leaving general nursing , even though at first she had had reservations and wondered if she had made the right move . |
| 30 | June welcomed Kay Evans and thanked her for sparing time once again to attend our training day ; also Rita Quick who had made the long journey south from Newcastle to assist with the training . |