Example sentences of "had [adv] make a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not surprisingly , they believed they had only made a stab at it , From the start Wave and HHCL were determined to build the campaign around an organisation with a sound commercial and practical justification for funding such advertising ; someone with a vested interest in curbing consumer greed . |
| 2 | I suppose I had better make a move to get some clothes on you think ? |
| 3 | Oh well , I suppose I had better make a start with the Christmas shopping . |
| 4 | Perhaps she had better make a bolt for it . |
| 5 | Greenpeace , the environmental pressure group which had already made a name for itself by chasing whalers on the high seas , sent its own vessel , the Rainbow Warrior , to shadow the nuclear ship out into the Atlantic . |
| 6 | She had been a feature writer here for two years and at twenty-five she had already made a name for herself . |
| 7 | I think also there was the sense that the sorts of books that a lady was expected to write were perhaps rather different from the sorts of books that a gentleman is required to write , and George Eliot had already made a name for herself as a writer of erm considerable independence of mind who , I think , wanted to be regarded as a writer , rather than as a lady novelist . |
| 8 | It should also be remembered that the Branch had already made a donation some 10 years ago of more than £13,000 to Richard Peck House . |
| 9 | Fabric boots had already made a comeback in quantity , encouraged by several years of hot , dry summers and a wider market . |
| 10 | For instance , nothing is more likely than that Prothero , when he said that association with Blast ‘ stamped a man too disadvantageously ’ , had in mind among other things Ford 's connection with the magazine and the scandal of Ford 's relations with Violet Hunt — a scandal that had already made a breach between Violet Hunt and the cruelly timorous Henry James , as told painfully in I Have This to Say . |
| 11 | But it had already made a difference in the balance of class origins of future generations . |
| 12 | I had already made a number of smaller works with Lascaux Aquacryl on watercolour pads and clocks , so I was aware of the colour range and paint handling . |
| 13 | Cohen had meanwhile made a surprise afternoon announcement to the press in London that the US government was " recommending that the forces of the EPRDF enter the city as soon as possible to stabilize the situation " . |
| 14 | Every muscle in his body had ached as if stretched to its limit , but it had not made a scrap of difference to his height . |
| 15 | She stood to gain substantially from her husband 's death , since he had not made a will . |
| 16 | But could she have known that her father had not made a will ? |
| 17 | Asked why , knowing that such practices were illegal yet widespread , he had not made a stand against them , Sir Henry replied : ‘ Because we should not have got the players . ’ |
| 18 | The Northern Echo reported last week that Darlington Council had not made a contribution to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the opening of the North Road railway station . |
| 19 | He had not made a mistake . |
| 20 | Nuadu , aching in every bone , the lower part of his face constrained within the harsh red mask fashioned from the Robemaker 's ropes of light , had not made a sound . |
| 21 | James Graham 's solution was to suggest that the Duke of Montrose dismiss William Weir , but that was easier said than done , for Weir had been appointed in order to oblige one of Montrose 's friends , and James Graham had not made a solution any easier to obtain by promising his substitute that Woodrop should have the appointment of procurator-fiscal to give as he chose . |
| 22 | A National Consumer Council report suggests that only 31% of council and housing associations tenants were satisfied with the way in which their complaints were handled , and that one in six tenants dissatisfied with the service provided by their landlord had not made a complaint at all . |
| 23 | In 1936 it looked as if the game had finally made a breakthrough when a national competition , involving teams from Gorky , Minsk , Baku and Moscow , was organised ; but someone at the Kremlin decreed that rugby was a capitalist pastime , and the game sank into oblivion once again . |
| 24 | He had just made a pilot for what was hoped to be a series called Beyond Our Ken — although the Ken in the title was not he but one of the most respected performers on radio , Kenneth Horne . |
| 25 | From being a child to being an adult this apparent choice changed to the overriding , deep-rooted belief that I was actually a boy , that nature had somehow made a mistake biologically but that I was really a boy . |
| 26 | You 'd think no-one else had ever made a film except him and you can see him coming on all good mates with the crew so they 'll make things easier for him when he gets in front of camera , so he looks five years younger and I get the shiny nose . |
| 27 | Nobody had ever made a fuss of Gerry before and he was real chuffed . |
| 28 | Adrian Longden , NALGO 's district officer , said that although times were hard , the company had still made a profit of more than £1 billion in the last financial year . |
| 29 | If the old Thames trades had still persisted , if boatmen had still made a living from taking the coins from the pockets of the drowned , then this was the hour for them to watch . |
| 30 | Hari rubbed her hand over her eyes , it had been a strange day , an eventful one in which she had quite clearly made an enemy but perhaps she had also made a friend of Edward Morris . |