Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THERE ARE SO many people who helped to make this time special that I am sorry not to be able to mention them all by name . |
| 2 | In IRC v Plummer [ 1979 ] STC 793 , a " Reverse Annuity Scheme " was entered into under which a charity paid money to the taxpayer who covenanted to make annual payments to the charity for the period of five years or during the remainder of the life of the taxpayer whichever be the shorter . |
| 3 | Eventually , in the middle of the afternoon , Golding arrived with his superior , Detective Superintendent Miller , and a squad of technicians , who began making intricate modifications to the telephone in order to monitor incoming calls . |
| 4 | It was you who started making veiled references to my love-life . |
| 5 | For example , a man who wished to make certain grievances clear to his boss decided that this was best approached , in the first instance , by writing to his boss because he realized that , were he to try to do this face to face , he would find it difficult to express himself without losing his temper . |
| 6 | Modern science could only have come from a belief that there was a God who had made all things to a certain design . |
| 7 | There was a Being who had made all things and who was to be feared . |
| 8 | He had been awarded £3,000 in damages , and in early 1990 damages were also awarded in out-of-court settlements to 19 other prisoners involved in the 1983 breakout who had made similar claims . |
| 9 | He slides among suspicious groups of heat-seeking , light-shunning nomads , who had made temporary camps up lesser conduits , who milk sweet , pure water from above from the gleaming concrete walls . |
| 10 | The determination or disposal is treated as a transfer of value by the beneficiary and the rate of tax payable is arrived at by reference to the total of it and any previous chargeable transfers by him unless the determination or disposal took place before 10/12/74 when , in implement of the undertaking in the White Paper ( Cmnd 5705 ) that in these circumstances any tax chargeable would be no greater than that which would be due if the trust were an individual who had made chargeable gifts equal to the capital becoming chargeable , the rate is arrived at by reference solely to the total of the determinations or disposals which have taken place in the trust since 25/3/74 , if by so doing the amount of tax payable would be reduced . |
| 11 | After Cromwell , new squires , successful tradesmen , farmers and impoverished Cavaliers who had made good marriages then began to build new houses . |
| 12 | Even his great friend and business partner in the Second Dominion , Hebbert Nuits-St-Georges , called Peccable by those who knew him well , a merchant who had made substantial profit from the superstitious and the woebegone in the Second Dominion , regularly remarked that the order of Yzordderrex was less stable by the day , and he would soon take his family out of the city , indeed out of the Dominion entirely , and find a new home where he would not have to smell burning bodies when he opened his windows in the morning . |
| 13 | For the first time since the process of unification began it placed a question mark over the future of Kohl , who had made 14 campaign appearances and admitted that the result represented a " bitter defeat " . |
| 14 | Seve , who had made four trips to the course during its construction , completed the tough par-73 course in 75 but announced himself satisfied with the lay-out . |
| 15 | Despite the market uncertainties and many other problems there were a number who had made great strides and it seemed that many would succeed . |
| 16 | In June a major scandal began to emerge involving securities dealers who had made secret compensation payments to favoured clients for losses incurred through taking their advice . |
| 17 | Following the trial Walsh was reported to be considering forcing North and Poindexter to testify before a grand jury in order to determine if there were others within the Reagan administration who had made false statements to Congress but had not yet been charged . |
| 18 | It was odd to sit here , so far away , in sun and shouting , and see the small dark and light rounds of the face of the man who had made those images . |
| 19 | Moreover , the establishment of the Bank of England in 1694 , and the emergence of public deficit financing , led to the appearance of a new force in politics , that of the " monied interest " , men who had made huge fortunes as a result of investing in the national debt . |
| 20 | It was the women who had to make hard decisions and choices as to what expenditure to cut or what bill could be postponed for yet another week . |
| 21 | Curtis , who refused to make any comment yesterday , virtually ran the club for previous chairman John Poynton . |
| 22 | Whatever its pitfalls , he viewed this procedure as infinitely preferable to the procedure of most other politicians , who tended to make snap decisions without advance preparation , often on the basis of an accommodation between competing interests . |