Example sentences of "it made a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I nearly slipped on the convex peel as it made a squishing sound underfoot , doing small damage to my shoe . |
| 2 | She said it made a real change to have a bit of humour round the place . |
| 3 | ‘ It made a real holiday for Francis . |
| 4 | It made a fearful mess , though it was only a superficial wound . ’ |
| 5 | According to the Chilean Human Rights Commission the distinction was unacceptable because it made a prior judgment of guilt . |
| 6 | It made a strong impact on me . |
| 7 | It made a strong impact . ’ |
| 8 | MIPS says it made a strong effort at the beginning to get the SCO on very favourable terms but the sponsorship just was n't there . |
| 9 | And it made a long garage . |
| 10 | It made a lasting impression on me . |
| 11 | I zipped back along the M20 , letting Armstrong have his head as I thought it made a nice change for him not to plod through heavy traffic at ten miles an hour . |
| 12 | It made a nice change from Share My Lettuce to which he switched every evening . |
| 13 | oh it made it made a nice change . |
| 14 | The evening was an enjoyable affair and it made a pleasant change not to have to leave Sally behind . |
| 15 | It made a perfect setting for Murder in the Dark . |
| 16 | I guess it made a stimulating change for him not to be surrounded by fawners and flatterers the whole time . |
| 17 | In the nine months to March 31st , it made a net profit of $188m ( up 38% on the same period of the previous year ) on sales of $1.7 billion ( up 40% ) . |
| 18 | It had a beautiful soft tail and it made a sad sound : ‘ Eee-eee ! ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I only had a couple of hours with him , but it made a tremendous difference . |
| 20 | It made a strange sort of sense . |
| 21 | It made a pre-tax operating loss of £398m , and restructuring took another £218m for a total pre-tax loss of £616m , up from a loss last time of £124m ; turnover fell 6% to £3,751m ; domestic sales and exports were each off 6% at £1,606m and £2,145m . |
| 22 | For the year to March 31 it made a pre-tax loss of £9.8m , compared with a massive £448.4m last time . |
| 23 | Fortunately , the classroom located below this block was the smaller of the two , and because it adjoined the kitchen , it made a logical dining-room . |
| 24 | It was indeed hierarchical : both in theory and practice it made a great difference where a man was born . |
| 25 | I remember reading the novel as a child , when it made a great impression on me , but the deplorable pastiches and plagiarizations put out by the mass media have obliterated my memory of the original details . |
| 26 | It made a small noise in its nostrils , then lowered its head slightly , as if bowing to her . |
| 27 | It made a small noise as he opened it and he paused . |
| 28 | Apple Computer Inc has always jealously guarded its Macintosh environment , but it made a striking gesture when it allowed IBM to build machines that would run the PowerPC version of Macintosh System when the chip is ready . |
| 29 | What was funny it made a loud noise but it hurt my ankle as well . |
| 30 | But as I thought then and it has proved since , it made a good story — The pump and towing car did not fare so lightly ; they caught the blast , we missed it . |