Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] had made a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I followed this with a suitably modest smile to indicate without ambiguity that I had made a witticism , since I did not wish Mr Farraday to restrain any spontaneous mirth he felt out of a misplaced respectfulness . |
| 2 | I wanted to shout after him that I had made a mistake and that I had really understood him very well . |
| 3 | Not surprisingly I have never heard from any of them since , although I felt that I had made a number of new and lasting Russian friendships that night . |
| 4 | I realized that I had made a mistake : the no boundary condition implied that disorder would in fact continue to increase during the contraction . |
| 5 | Private Eye is appealing against the record £600,000 damages paid to Mrs Sutcliffe after a seven-day trial last May , in which she alleged the magazine had libelled her by claiming in its ‘ Street of Shame ’ column that she had made a £250,000 deal with the Daily Mail for her story after a night of ‘ carousing ’ with the paper 's journalists in a hotel . |
| 6 | Down on the steps , Marie had decided that she had made a mistake . |
| 7 | She was beginning to feel that she had made a mistake , and allowed herself to be exploited . |
| 8 | I was terrifically embarrassed , but Karen did not once so much as glance in my direction , and after a while I began to suspect that she had made a mistake too . |
| 9 | The horse made another noise , more a groan than a grunt this time , and , as his stride faltered , Kelly knew that she had made a serious mistake . |
| 10 | Davidson , who had previously been married for a total of less than five years to three different wives , said after falling for Tracie that she had made a new man of him . |
| 11 | She knew that she had made a fatal mistake . |
| 12 | She had never seen her in the morning and she knew instinctively that she had made a mistake in arriving without warning . |
| 13 | But Albert was so sure that she had made a Will … |
| 14 | Crown counsel informed defence counsel of an inconsistency between the sister 's testimony and her first statement without showing him that statement or revealing that she had made a second statement confirming the first statement in that respect . |
| 15 | She never said to whom that fresh statement was made , but it was apparent to the jury that she was saying that she had made a statement contrary to that incriminating one , and she was suggesting that the second statement set out her case as she was putting it in the witness box . |
| 16 | A girl lunged over the grid , screaming that she had made a mistake , fingers just missing the disappearing chips . |
| 17 | Despite her defiant words , though , she had the feeling that she had made a bad mistake during these last few minutes . |
| 18 | And , although she was rapidly coming to the conclusion that she had made a fool of herself all down the line , she still did n't quite know how . |
| 19 | Oh , lord , she inwardly groaned ; if this was Vendelin Gajdusek , then she had a rather unhappy feeling that she had made a terrible start ! |
| 20 | You were right to break with him if you decided that you had made a mistake in accepting him , but oh , my dear , your uncle Orrin tells me that he dare not inform your father of the dreadful things Havvie is hinting about you for fear of what he might do to Havvie . |
| 21 | He explained that we had made a grave error — it was Saturday afternoon . |
| 22 | It 's unfortunate that yet again the Mercury got it wrong they stated that we had made a decision to close four homes |
| 23 | People from other lineages might not know of these particular marriages , but they had similar marriages of their own , similar reminders in their own genealogies that they had made a special and enduring peace with other lineages . |
| 24 | Evidence that they had made a sound choice came with the £36 bill for the 6,000 mile service . |
| 25 | It was almost as if he felt that they had made a fool of him in 1945 – 46 and was trying to atone for his naiveté . |
| 26 | Coun leader Arthur Taylor told the full council yesterday that they had made a sensible deal with the bus companies which could save the free pass scheme . |
| 27 | I HAVE no doubt that the vandals who defaced Bomber Harris 's statue are feeling pretty smug and probably thinking that they had made a point for Dresden . |
| 28 | This view had clear implications for the state as actor , but the events of the 1960s showed that it had made a false assumption . |
| 29 | His unconventionality , his unorthodoxy and his accent all helped the party to feel that it had made a step forward : " the dawn of the new regime " . |
| 30 | The African colony to which he returned was regarded by the British government as ‘ advanced ’ — in African terms — which meant that it had made a start on the road to self-government ; however , the Colonial Office reckoned that the goal was still distant . |