Example sentences of "they have made a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of them has made a hash of things like the British government . |
| 2 | Then there was another one , outside the church , they 'd made a hole for a man to sit in there , and he used to sell papers . |
| 3 | I spent the whole of my first year waiting to be tapped on the shoulder and told they 'd made a mistake . |
| 4 | They 'd made a mistake . |
| 5 | I think it 's very instructive that er H B F did n't deny that they 'd made a mistake on this number and just talking about old people , er the fact is that eighty five percent of deaths in the county occur to people aged over sixty five . |
| 6 | Oh so they 'd made a mistake . |
| 7 | I knew they 'd made a lot of money . |
| 8 | They 'd made a vow , you see , all that time ago … |
| 9 | There they 'd lit a fire and cooked the rice , but before starting to eat they 'd made an offering to Ban Bhāi , god of the forest , asking permission to plunder his lands . |
| 10 | They 've made a contribution towards |
| 11 | I thought you were gon na say they 've made a mess . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | I mean , they should n't want more than seven per cent because the cost of living , you know , the inflation 's gone down , but then when a bloke gets forty five thousand quid , you know eh , on a firm where they 've a , they 've made a profit , but he got an increase of forty five thousand pound which was of , no , no about forty per cent rather , forty per cent increase in his salary , I mean it 's bloody , I mean , how can , how can they expect , you know , the ordinary working man to put up with bloody awful increase , if , if they go and give bosses increases like that , I mean it does n't make sense . |
| 14 | They can either admit they 've made a mistake , or they can make it compulsory . |
| 15 | They 've made a mistake have n't they ? |
| 16 | er they say , and if then they 've made a mistake you have done what you are told , I mean if you take a big ladder and it 's only a wee fire , a small car bump and then there is a big fire later on , somewhere else and they have n't got their , the right appliances because you 're at that place with the wrong stuff , then that would cause problems would n't it ? |
| 17 | Doctors believe they 've made a breakthough in the treatment of breast cancer using drugs instead of surgery . |
| 18 | Nearly a thousand years ago the first settlers made the Glemmtal valley their home , and ever since they 've made a point of extending a warm welcome to all-comers . |
| 19 | they snapped it up at that price that his er sold and then they could n't pay er when , when the time came , you know the everything went off , so they sold it and bought something else and they 've made a lot of money on that so they 've paid it off and have er a lot of money on the house |
| 20 | Jack said : ‘ They 've made an offer of 200,000 but it 's not enough . |
| 21 | Best of all , they had made a plan together . |
| 22 | Last night the investigating team said they had made a breakthrough when a missing hood from James 's anorak was discovered by officers searching the area . |
| 23 | They had made a friend — a very good friend — and they dearly wanted him to come and see them again . |
| 24 | By 1990 turnover had increased to £150,000 and they had made a profit of £32,000 . |
| 25 | It was almost as if he felt that they had made a fool of him in 1945 – 46 and was trying to atone for his naiveté . |
| 26 | I felt like Plain Jane , and Dustin felt they had made a mistake in choosing him for the film in the first place . |
| 27 | They had made a mistake , that was all , and sent it to his son . |
| 28 | In January this year , the Legal Aid Board decided they had made a mistake , and withdrew legal aid . |
| 29 | That was the strong inside bet from Central Park yesterday as the champions angrily denied they had made a move for Sydney St George coach Brian Smith to succeed Monie . |
| 30 | The police soon traced the couple 's movements and found they had made a number of telephone calls to Paris . |