Example sentences of "they [vb past] made [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd made thirty-five pence last year , she said , which was considered good . |
| 2 | Detectives leading the hunt for Mrs Campbell 's killers said today they 'd made vital progress . |
| 3 | Detectives leading the hunt for Mrs Campbell 's killers said today they 'd made vital progress . |
| 4 | Well and they 'd made little buns . |
| 5 | After 6 months of specialist treatment here at the National Spinal Injuries Unit , doctors said they 'd made miraculous progress . |
| 6 | They had made exaggerated claims about their membership size , among other shortcomings , the NEC said . |
| 7 | The scale of the defeat was laid firmly at the doors of several established players , who failed to turn out because they had made other arrangements on the basis that the match would fall victim to the frost . |
| 8 | They had made one album , which had failed , partly , it was felt within the company , because they had thrown away the chance of a prestigious tour , supporting Talking Heads , by their novel plan to simply switch on their machines and tape-recorders and then sit in the auditorium with the audience and watch the show themselves . |
| 9 | They had made two attempts to bomb United States military trains in Lower Saxony in 1987 and 1988 . |
| 10 | In mid-October a breakthrough seemed imminent after senior trade officials from Canada , the EC , Japan and the USA , meeting in Ontario on Oct. 17-18 , claimed that they had made substantial progress in resolving the deadlock ( responsible for the suspension of an earlier round of talks between US and EC officials in Brussels on Oct. 11-12 ) . |
| 11 | To the crew it was a routine trip and one they had made many times before by night . |
| 12 | They had made many Hollywood films here . |
| 13 | They had made good time . |
| 14 | In 192 ( 71 per cent ) cases , DNs were solely responsible for current treatment ; in a further 26 ( 10 per cent ) , they had made joint treatment decisions with the GP and/or consultant , so the DN was wholly or partly responsible for 81 per cent of treatment decisions : Table 3 lists DN responses . |
| 15 | Had the time come to forget the promise they had made each other , the guarantee they had given never to meet or speak ? |
| 16 | No doubt they had made considerable preparations before the news came of the cancellation ; it is hoped that they were not inconvenienced too much . |
| 17 | This improved the performance of the combine-harvester slightly ; but it was not until they had made serrated edges on all the knives that the loss of grain lessened appreciably . |
| 18 | the probation service held their own inquiry to see if they had made any mistakes . |
| 19 | It was over a week since the children had been removed , and both police and the Social Work Department had said they had made independent investigations which had led to their decision to take such drastic action . |
| 20 | The children themselves appeared , and after a second summer spent playing at the M's farm , and becoming ‘ socialised ’ by contact with that family , it seemed they had made some progress . |
| 21 | The districts were chosen because they had made some progress in care programming . |
| 22 | Although they had made high mileage cars look like low mileage ones , they had sold them at high mileage car prices . |
| 23 | But between them , he told himself , they had made this nest comfortable . |
| 24 | The point was that their claims had gone to different adjudication officers and they had made different decisions . |
| 25 | Of the teachers we spoke to , two-fifths reported that they had rearranged their furniture , and well over nine-tenths of them had made some kind of change to their classrooms as a direct consequence of suggestions or recommendations made to them as part of the Primary Needs Programme . |