Example sentences of "made a mess [prep] " in BNC.

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1 My last chance and I 've made a mess of it .
2 She may have made a mess of her life ; she may have faced problems beyond your comprehension .
3 Established stable star , Golden Freeze , who misses the King George after grazing a knee in a fall on the road , has responded well to antibiotics and is expected to be sidelined for only two weeks , but this injury and all the firm ground have made a mess of Mrs Pitman 's plans .
4 The government has made a mess of its showpiece , the privatisation of the profitable Muslim Commercial Bank .
5 There is nothing which can be guaranteed to alienate the affections of a statistician more than the surveyor who goes for advice after he has made a mess of sampling and needs someone to get him out of the mess .
6 We may have made a mess of most of them , including parliamentary democracy , but the cricket culture we have successfully assimilated and , as Graham Gooch may tell you , perfected .
7 We learn that John has had an affair with a fashion model ( Sunny Griffin ) , who moves in with her dresses , wigs and dog , but decides to leave after she has made a mess of the kitchen by boiling the spaghetti over .
8 Finally , if the model is low and slow and you think you have made a mess of things , remember that ‘ chickening out ’ and switching off the ‘ hold ’ will probably just produce a more expensive crash !
9 I might , after all , have made a mess of the whole thing .
10 The Federal Assembly has made a mess of the country 's name , rejecting the Czecho-Slovakia with a hyphen and finally agreeing on the Czech and Slovak Federated Republic ( CFSR ) .
11 Do [ if she did ] , she 'd ha' made a mess of me !
12 ‘ Oh dear , Riley , we have made a mess of things , have n't we ? ’ said Linley unkindly .
13 And they identified in nineteen fifty nine eighteen areas of management activity that management consistently made a mess of .
14 ‘ I 'm sorry I nearly made a mess of things . ’
15 I told her that her precious sister-in-law had made a mess of my life yet again , so I suppose she felt obliged to make amends . ’
16 It may be that Gary McAllister simply made a mess of his penalty kick .
17 You 've made a mess of it now look !
18 You have made a mess of this drawer !
19 That 's made a mess of table !
20 But he had made a mess of it .
21 It 's made a mess of everything !
22 We 're making a mess , we 've made a mess of the table .
23 A hundred , I says , no wonder the er it it you 've made a mess on it I said .
24 You have made a mess on it , do n't mind me saying so but you have .
25 Now I 've made a mess on your the these need wiping because I 've got butter on my fingers .
26 See you 've made a mess on the board as well .
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