Example sentences of "'ve made a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | My last chance and I 've made a mess of it . |
| 2 | You 've made a mess of it now look ! |
| 3 | We 're making a mess , we 've made a mess of the table . |
| 4 | Instead of plays being acted by the city craftsmen once a year , we 've made a craft of play-acting . |
| 5 | He did n't interfere here , Uncle saw to that , so I 've had a free hand in the shop and although I say it myself I 've made a go of it . ’ |
| 6 | I know at once that I 've made a fool of myself . |
| 7 | This house , two children , a failed marriage , and a job which I 'm frightened of losing because it 's the only thing I 've made a success of . " |
| 8 | ‘ You 've made a success of your work , therefore I had assumed that you must enjoy it . |
| 9 | Look , I know you 're clever and you 've made a success of a career in a male-dominated area , but there 's no need to ram that fact down everyone 's throat . ’ |
| 10 | Barbara Coleman said : ‘ I 've made a pot of coffee . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , Pip , dear boy , I 've made a gentleman of you ! |
| 12 | This is the wage rate in agriculture , right , now if we discount , sorry I 've made a cock-up of this , that 's erm , that 's not discounted , right , if we discounted , it 's going to look |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Then , as her face fell , he added , ‘ However , since Kirsty 's been staying with me I 've made a point of packing up just after five . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 've made a list of payments I have made so far . ’ |
| 16 | er , six erm , I 've made a list of all the different words that are used for crap on reports right ? |
| 17 | I was going to suggest that this is er , I mean I 've made a note of this question , that we ought to return to it next time |
| 18 | this is how much tax I 've paid , this is , I mean if you go on the dole too unless you 've made a note of it there is no record of how much you 've been paid on the dole , they , they give John the what he calls a giro , takes it to the bank and cashes it and there is no , no record of and when he 's been on the dole . |
| 19 | I 've made a note of a potting of that briefing paper to you . |
| 20 | ‘ So you 've made a study of my lifestyle ? |
| 21 | Well it certainly is , and we think that we 've had an examin of our co , examination of the constitution , we 've made a number of changes , but the task for Labour now is to press on with the issues of looking at our policies , and making sure that our economic policy and our social policy a actually meets the changes that are out their in the world . |
| 22 | I think that one of the great problems , and I 've made a number of studies of individual Puritans in the seventeenth century , is that we talk about Puritanism and we think of Victorian Nonconformity . |
| 23 | For years people have described records I 've made as being depressing , and admittedly I 've made a lot of melancholic records , but I do n't find records like that depressing . |
| 24 | I know I 've made a lot of mistakes and there are probably a lot of things I should be sorry about but I would n't change my life , I would make the same mistakes because they 've taught me so much . |
| 25 | ‘ You 've made a lot of accusations but you have n't come up with a single shred of evidence to back them up . ’ |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | You 've made a lot of progress on that . |