Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] made a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why ? ’ is a useful question when someone has made an error but you want them to diagnose it . |
| 2 | It was a cool night and someone had made a bonfire on the sand . |
| 3 | I knew what I was going out to and I was only concerned that there might be some hitch or delay , that I might get there and find that someone had made a mistake and I was n't due out for another six months — such was my anxiety to be released . |
| 4 | In among the monochrome massacre , someone had made a mistake ; there were brightly coloured Doris Day and James Garner in Move Over Darling . |
| 5 | Someone had made a pronouncement on it already . |
| 6 | Maximilian laughed as if someone had made a joke . |
| 7 | Of the senators involved Bush said : " They ought not to panic and run like a covey of quail because somebody has made an allegation against a man whose word I trust , and who , as I understand it , has n't been fingered by what 's coming out of this process … |
| 8 | Somebody had made a speech . |
| 9 | It may sound strange to be pleased to discover that one has made a mistake , but it is , in fact , one of the most exciting things for a social scientist to discover — one really feels that one has found out something that went beyond what one might have expected through ‘ common sense ’ reasoning ! |
| 10 | But the real wonder of pop biopics is that no one has made a movie about Jim Morrison before now ( The Doors opens on March 15 ) . |
| 11 | One can , for example , no longer say that , if one has made an observation of the velocity , then the velocity will be the same one period later . |
| 12 | He checked the bathroom and kitchen and only then stood up to look through the windows to be certain that no one had made a run for the trees . |
| 13 | and erm one 's made a nest in this bird box |
| 14 | It is like trying to predict the outcome of a game of chess before anyone has made a move . |
| 15 | While she stood staring at it , breathing heavily and conscious that if anyone had made a fool of herself during the past few minutes it was Melissa Craig , the phone began to ring again . |
| 16 | One was to be gold , since no-one had made a gold guitar before and such an instrument would be a perfect attention-grabber , and the other was to be black , black because it looked smart and also because it was the best colour for showing off the hands of the guitarist — provided the guitarist were Caucasian , of course . |