Example sentences of "she had make a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She had made a firm promise .
2 She felt she had made a right fool of herself .
3 Crown counsel informed defence counsel of an inconsistency between the sister 's testimony and her first statement without showing him that statement or revealing that she had made a second statement confirming the first statement in that respect .
4 Worse still , after she had made a little money from the publication of a pamphlet containing her beastly poems about him , she commissioned a rubber dress from ‘ her designer ’ .
5 The horse made another noise , more a groan than a grunt this time , and , as his stride faltered , Kelly knew that she had made a serious mistake .
6 Oh , lord , she inwardly groaned ; if this was Vendelin Gajdusek , then she had a rather unhappy feeling that she had made a terrible start !
7 It was quite another to feel she had made a complete fool of herself and taken her daughter alone so far from the safety of Four Winds .
8 She had made a complete fool of herself and had successfully lived down to every low opinion that Piers harboured about her .
9 I asked if she had made a separate tension swatch for the stocking stitch , to which she replied yes and that although she used stitch size 7 for the Fair Isle and 5.2 for the stocking stitch , it had matched exactly ( ? ) .
10 Davidson , who had previously been married for a total of less than five years to three different wives , said after falling for Tracie that she had made a new man of him .
11 She had made a new life for herself now in London , a better , much more successful life than Dublin .
12 Susan and Gay were the people she liked best in the world , and when her father died she had made a mental vow that she would do everything in her power to make life happy for this sister of hers who had worked so hard and shown such courage .
13 She admitted she had made a dreadful mistake and appealed for a reconciliation .
14 As she revealed to writer Sherwood Anderson , she had made a conscious decision to limit the type of image she believed had been most susceptible to critical misreadings in 1923 :
15 She had made a lengthy visit with him to Italy in 1664–5 and enjoyed the company of learned men , including G. W. Leibniz .
16 As it was , she had made a big enough fool of herself already .
17 She had made a big mistake , but now it was over .
18 Now , for a second great war , she found herself in a country which was not her own ; although she had made a few friends , it was not at all like living among her own people .
19 Only once the others had become used to her , once she had made a few allies , would she risk stirring up so sensitive a subject .
20 She had made a wrong choice a year ago , had put Steve and her career before the man she loved , but there had been more to it than that .
21 She knew that she had made a fatal mistake .
22 Nor could he avoid reminding Charlotte of the hopeful turn Colin 's case had taken — a turn to which she had made a significant contribution — while her niece 's plight seemed only to worsen by the day .
23 In the difficult job of getting through one 's life happily , she had made a bad start .
24 Despite her defiant words , though , she had the feeling that she had made a bad mistake during these last few minutes .
25 At the end of the road she had to make a right turn when , a few hundred yards later , she came across the most elegant four-storeyed building .
26 She recognized that she had to make a sensible framework of her own .
27 She had to make a determined effort not to look back .
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