Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] made a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must 've made a mistake — Marie said she 'd write to me . |
| 2 | A solicitor for the Robinson family said that the staff at the hospital should have made a call to the Southern General . |
| 3 | Jacques Tati should have made a film here . |
| 4 | He should have made a point of looking at the evening coverage before doing his own piece ; but he 'd seen the people they 'd sent to the press conference at the hospital , dismissed them as unlikely to do a decent job on it , and promptly forgotten them . |
| 5 | I should have made a point of following up his sickness , thought Cadfael , touched , but I thought he , of all people , would make good sure he got all the treatment he needed . |
| 6 | It is astonishing that he should have made a riposte about housing benefit being available to the poor for housing costs and to have given the impression that he was in favour of housing benefit . |
| 7 | I should have made a list . |
| 8 | The Government should have made a statement on the way in which the police national computer operates ; it should not have been necessary for me or the National Council for Civil Liberties to prise information from them . |
| 9 | Threat to insurers AS THE £1.1bn takeover bid by Australian Mutual Provident , Australia 's largest life insurer , gets underway for the Pearl Group , a new survey suggests that perhaps the Australians should have made a bid for a building society . |
| 10 | It was not , perhaps , as improbable as it sounds that McCarthy should have made a target of the Army . |
| 11 | I could n't help thinking that he must have made a mistake . |
| 12 | ‘ You must have made a mistake . |
| 13 | He , too , checked with the police and rang back to confirm that Derek had not been arrested and that he felt she must have made a mistake . |
| 14 | She waited a moment for the signal to appear somewhere on the grid , then leaned forward to key the search sequence again , thinking she must have made a mistake . |
| 15 | Edward , shying away from disagreeable exposures , supposed that mother must have made a mistake . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm sorry , sir , I must have made a mistake . ’ |
| 17 | Said he must have made a mistake and it was the Cynthia T. The Cynthia had one of the new masters whom I did n't know , so I could n't do anything . |
| 18 | She must have made a mistake herself . |
| 19 | ‘ But they must have made a mistake — that ca n't possibly be right ! ’ |
| 20 | Must have made a fortune ! |
| 21 | Must have made a mint out of the wars . |
| 22 | But she i if they say she 's made a payment , she must have made a payment . |
| 23 | I told Michael what he wanted to hear , pretty much , without actually promising anything , because I could tell he was going to make it easy for me He was falling asleep on my shoulder When he did , I slipped out from under him , picked up his sexy uniform , which did n't seem quite so sexy any more , and took his glider key off the chain Then I got dressed quick , holding the key in my teeth , and then I went over to the kite , but I must have made a noise ; because Michael woke up I looked back and saw him putting both feet in one leg of his trousers , calling my name , trying to back out of it |
| 24 | Individually or collectively , they must have made a decision to keep their wits about them for the committee meeting . |
| 25 | One of the guards must have made a substitution . ’ |
| 26 | The original owner must have made a representation ( by statement or conduct ) that the seller was entitled to sell the goods . |
| 27 | He had a good degree in art history , and had he not gone in for politics he might have made a name for himself as an art historian . |
| 28 | A European director might have made a film explicitly depicting and condemning the chain-gang system and he almost certainly would have suggested that the system was a metaphor for life itself , but Hollywood had made a more accessible and universally popular film by showing an innocent man hounded by a combination of events and social forces of which the chain-gang was the most obviously dramatic . |
| 29 | As a boy Waugh had longed to go to Eton , which might have made a radical of him and where he might have met Orwell , and did not ; his first aristocratic wife left him after a year , and for an Etonian ; and his sojourns in a great Elizabethan house in Worcestershire as a young man , the guest of a friend , allowed him to glimpse a world of moats , battlements and rolling parkland from which in spirit he never awoke . |
| 30 | Gin had been the great popular comfort of Paradise Street in her childhood , gin and tea , so she took it as someone from another background might have made a dish of bread and milk . |