Example sentences of "he [vb past] made [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd made major strides in establishing the kind of company he wanted , which was n't the kind of company David wanted , and I think David saw that when he got to New York . |
| 2 | I mean obviously once she 's been through the learning process herself , so Doug came away feeling quite pleased that he 'd made that contact and he also sort of made one or two , he , he had one or two wise observations I think about the evening , he made one or two new contacts himself and the suggestion and things , he spoke very well about it , at our committee on our last meeting last week |
| 3 | ‘ But whenever we left him in his cot and then went back to him , we 'd notice that he 'd made terrible scratches on his face with his fingernails and he would rip the backs of his legs with his toes . |
| 4 | He 'd thrown rocks at windows of offices and works they 'd sacked him from , he 'd defaced buildings , scratched officials ' cars and mutilated bonnet mascots ( though that was largely for his own safety ) and he 'd made bomb-hoax telephone calls . |
| 5 | Bob went on from there , season in , season out , to the end of 1931–32 , by which time he had made 293 League appearances for Crystal Palace ( a club record at the time , but of course they did not make much of such things in those days ) and even today , almost 60 years later , there are fewer than only half a dozen Palace men who have played more times for us than that . |
| 6 | Not that he had made much progress on anything else . |
| 7 | Naturally , he had made extensive preparations , but could n't be absolutely certain they would work . |
| 8 | This charge against Latimer was almost certainly baseless , though it is more difficult to assess whether he had made undue profits for himself out of the campaign in Brittany . |
| 9 | He had made good use of the last few days . |
| 10 | He had made many contacts , many friends , and as he quickly learned the technicalities such as paper-sizes , weights , and the varying processes involved , the business was rapidly developing . |
| 11 | He had made many attempts to put his arms around me , but I had always evaded him . |
| 12 | THE ARCHBISHOP of Canterbury admitted yesterday he had made many mistakes during his two years in office . |
| 13 | The New York Times demonstrated how he had made little impact on the movie world , until that point in time , with the observation that the lawyer Hanson was ‘ … played by Jack Nicholson whose sharp , regular features may be vaguely familiar to kids who go and watch drive-in movies . ’ |
| 14 | He had made various bids at drawing her out , to no avail ; now he felt in sympathetic collusion — thus had he survived his own schooldays . |
| 15 | He knew this was disingenuous : he had made poor Jonas sound like a companion , to arouse sympathy . |
| 16 | ‘ So , by the time he had made one broom the floor of the hut was covered in bits of twigs , and he had to use the broom he 'd just made to sweep the floor of his hut clean before he could start making the next broom . |
| 17 | The boy repeated none of the simple errors he had made first time round . |
| 18 | Frank Williams would n't reveal whether he had made last-ditch efforts to persuade Mansell to drive on . |
| 19 | An FPÖ federal deputy , Helmut Weiss , was in October 1989 forbidden by the FPÖ chair , Haider , to take up his seat in the Nationalrat and was also obliged to give up his seat in the Bundesrat , after he had made controversial statements about the Nazi era . |
| 20 | I drew this to the attention of Mellowes , my line manager , at an early stage and he had made vague noises about something being in the pipeline . |
| 21 | He added that he had made that decision in spite of an embargo on similar junctions after the Bellgrove train crash two years earlier . |
| 22 | Instantly she defended herself , just as she had when he had made that accusation before . |
| 23 | He had made that fact clear enough . |
| 24 | He had made that appointment five days ago and it was one that he would keep . |
| 25 | He had made official representations to many governments , but had received only two replies . |
| 26 | Accepting defeat I withdrew , but I was gratified to learn afterwards that although the bulk of unsuitable candidates remained , he had made certain alterations following my visit . |
| 27 | He had made major speeches at conferences and was the instigator of the HTV programme . |
| 28 | While I was in the Gulf , one of our teachers vanished temporarily after a call to a colleague in which he had made disparaging remarks about members of the local royal family . |
| 29 | He had made considerable progress during his week in Aberdeen 's Royal Cornhill Hospital and was anxious to get back to his job and re-establish his life . |
| 30 | In his first Report to the Governors , Daniels noted that it was difficult to teach three languages , and so he had made German alternative to Latin in the Upper School , and French alternative in the Lower . |