Example sentences of "have made a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Like his men , he has made a blanket-roll to carry immediate necessities rather than burdening himself with a blanket bag or other form of knapsack .
2 Monte Samana is his , I know that now , and he deserves his profits , because he has made a holiday place that sits on the side of the hill as though it were set there by the Spaniards themselves , the Andalusians and the descendants of the Moors . ’
3 ‘ Perhaps Martin Edwards will admit that he has made a mistake selling to the person he has done and the way in which he has sold it .
4 Jay has made a cabinet to house the tank in , which also hides the filtration equipment .
5 Although Labour has made a commitment to buy back the national grid , Williams argues that its policy on British Coal 's future has been left largely unsaid .
6 As part of this , MI5 has made a bid to adopt a more proactive intelligence-gathering role in dealing with the IRA ( now the cold war is over , it has to find something else to do ) .
7 Some will weigh the evidence one way and some will weigh it another , but no one , having made a decision to believe in God , will be able to say that their assessment can not change as the argument proceeds .
8 The relief of having made a decision did not last .
9 I might have made a mistake to turn down offers when they were there .
10 Individually or collectively , they must have made a decision to keep their wits about them for the committee meeting .
11 A very weird man — who , if The Pistols had stayed together , could have made a fortune flogging those snaps to a Sunday dreadful .
12 He realised that he was , in fact , looking at a man , so heavily clothed , hatted and booted in furs that he could have made a fortune doing tricks at the Glasgow Fair .
13 Sheridan might have made a difference given the chance — but then we 'll never know quite what sent the skilful midfielder packing to Sheffield Wednesday after hardly a sniff of the City Ground .
14 He might have made a pass given time .
15 Only enhanced staffing and , in particular , the PNP coordinators were thought to have made a slight to moderate impact .
16 They 've made a mistake have n't they ?
17 still we want this , we want this , they 've made a request to have this done and it 's government funded and so it 's quite an interesting project really just to record things
18 I 've made a decision to go and say , hey , this might be worth having .
19 Right , now there 's one , we 've made a decision to defer consideration of this report , but because both Mr and Mrs had indicated they wanted to speak before I took the vote , I 'm prepared to take the speeches , but I do n't know that there 's very much of a motion that can legally be moved .
20 I just think women find humour sexy and if you 've made a woman laugh you 've won half the battle .
21 It 's unfortunate that yet again the Mercury got it wrong they stated that we had made a decision to close four homes
22 Between them she had made a decision based only on panic and no common sense .
23 If Francis had made a will have you any idea how it would have gone ? ’
24 It was the first time two West Indian batsmen had made a century stand for the sixth wicket in each innings of a Test and it took the game right away from England ; when the last wicket fell , Logie was left unbeaten on 95 , the score was 397 , and England had to survive for the best part of two days .
25 ‘ The full weight of the Children 's Department came down on us for that scene and , in retrospect , I realised I had made a mistake letting that go through .
26 In 1170 he had made a bid to capture Bourges itself but withdrew when Louis VII came up with an army .
27 While these negotiations were under way , Chart Thai and Chart Patthana had made a move to form a coalition with the New Aspiration Party , whose leader Gen. Chaovalit Yongchaiyut publicly rejected the offer .
28 A great anger had heated up , one of Robertson 's new windows had been shattered by a stone , and the womenfolk had made a move to drag the teacher out and throw him in the river .
29 Her second canoe , with Archie Hart and Eric Folder , had made a rough-and-tumble landing in heavy surf near Gela .
30 While city leaders in Leipzig held talks with reformists , reports indicated that police in Halle had made a baton attack on about 3,000 people as they were leaving a church to march in silence round the town .
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