Example sentences of "made a [noun] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , if you had n't spent so much on a ‘ super duper ’ multi-flange guitar pedal , you could have made a profit by having more band T-shirts on sale at your gigs . |
| 2 | Virani has made a fortune from acting as middle-man , between the English property tycoon and the Asian shopkeeper . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've made a fortune by combining your talent for yacht design with a keen business brain . |
| 4 | At the end of the book , though , Zuckerman confronts Roth with the opinion that the latter has made a mistake in trying to tame or to shed his imagination in the foregoing text , that fiction is superior to fact , and that the factuality of The Facts is specious . |
| 5 | He wondered whether he had made a mistake in sending the terrorist away . |
| 6 | I felt like Plain Jane , and Dustin felt they had made a mistake in choosing him for the film in the first place . |
| 7 | You were right to break with him if you decided that you had made a mistake in accepting him , but oh , my dear , your uncle Orrin tells me that he dare not inform your father of the dreadful things Havvie is hinting about you for fear of what he might do to Havvie . |
| 8 | His mind is open to the possibility that he might have made a mistake in hiring Stephanie to head Advertising and Promotions . |
| 9 | In an article in Capital Gay in February 1988 , Paul Davies argued that lesbians and gays had made a mistake in allowing our politics ‘ to be colonized by the Left ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ All through The Graduate Nichols thought he 'd made a mistake in casting me . |
| 11 | It would be so simple to check if the doctor had made a mistake in reading her mother 's notes . |
| 12 | I 'd feel differently if she 'd made my father really happy , but , believe me , he soon learnt he 'd made a mistake in marrying Bertha . ’ |
| 13 | She had never seen her in the morning and she knew instinctively that she had made a mistake in arriving without warning . |
| 14 | From time to time he wondered whether he had made a mistake in sleeping with her . |
| 15 | Standing in his hotel bedroom , Matt hoped he had n't made a mistake in agreeing to see her . |
| 16 | A loose leg on a dining-chair was dealt with immediately but a charge of two spiders in the bath was met with , ‘ Have you made a mistake in booking ? |
| 17 | That is to say , he could not admit he had made a mistake in siding with the Axis , without jeopardizing his continuation in power . |
| 18 | Some said that Ryan had made a mistake in failing to get everything ready in the block before he sent Sawyer off . |
| 19 | I have already mentioned the argument on this occasion which convinced Lanfranc that he had made a mistake in sweeping the former archbishop Elphege out of the ecclesiastical calendar . |
| 20 | ‘ But over a couple of months of pilot programmes , I simply felt I had made a mistake by leaving . |
| 21 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials conceded to a congressional committee looking into the costs that the agency had made a mistake by letting the contract ‘ run over cost , over time . ’ |
| 22 | The talks , repeatedly postponed since April 8 apparently because of failure to agree an agenda , soon got into difficulty , although it was reported on May 9 that the MNR had made a concession in allowing relief columns through to Mozambican refugees in Malawi . |
| 23 | Anita Roddick has made a virtue of flying in the face of business convention . |
| 24 | Most of the big names since then — including Clint Black , Alan Jackson , Trisha Yearwood , Reba McEntire and , especially , Garth Brooks — have made a virtue of sticking close to country 's roots . |
| 25 | So I have made a point of looking you up . ’ |
| 26 | He should have made a point of looking at the evening coverage before doing his own piece ; but he 'd seen the people they 'd sent to the press conference at the hospital , dismissed them as unlikely to do a decent job on it , and promptly forgotten them . |
| 27 | He had made a point of reading some of his articles last night , and the man knew what he was writing about . |
| 28 | The young man who had peered over the rampart to see this extraordinary collection of scarecrows was known to more than one of the garrison of Krishnapur , for he was none other than that Lieutenant Stapleton who had danced so often with Louise in Calcutta the previous cold season and who had been given a lock of blonde curls as a keepsake ; he had made a point of wearing this lock of hair next to the rather wispy blond hair that grew on his own chest . |
| 29 | He was fair and quite softly-spoken and actually a little shy-looking , and he 'd made a point of taking off his uniform cap when he talked to her . |
| 30 | In recent years he had made a point of appeasing the fundamentalists at the same time as co-opting left-wing opposition . |