Example sentences of "had make [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On a good pitch , England struggled after Gooch and Larkins had made a solid start , and 188 for 8 was disappointing . |
| 2 | Observers attributed the almost unanimous endorsement primarily to the united stand taken by the politburo ; even the leading conservative politburo member Yegor Ligachev had made a cautious speech at the plenum giving his backing for reform and democratization of the party . |
| 3 | I 'd made my usual lousy start , Niki had made a reasonable one and Clay [ Regazzoni ] had made a super start . |
| 4 | On 8 December , the former prime minister , Stanley Baldwin ( Lord Baldwin ) , had made a successful radio appeal on behalf of refugees , ‘ the victims … of an explosion of man 's inhumanity to man ’ . |
| 5 | In 1715 , Thomas Doggett , an Irishman who had made a successful career in London as an actor , theatre manager and author , instituted a race between six young watermen , donating the prize of an ornate jacket , cash in pocket and silver badge to the winner . |
| 6 | Livingstone himself had made a tentative start with the publication of the Londoner , a heavily subsidized but snappy tabloid free-sheet widely distributed throughout the GLC area . |
| 7 | Mrs Meacock and Araminta had made a first appearance in a short story , ‘ The Prerogative of Love ’ . |
| 8 | Within two months they had made a first attempt to get a suitable building site — part of the field in which the new Presbyterian School was to be built . |
| 9 | The PR Department had made a good start in the CASB period with Colonel Glass in charge . |
| 10 | Founded and endowed by Leo Bonn , a deaf merchant banker and financier , the bureau had made a good start , but went into decline during the war . |
| 11 | ‘ It does n't matter , ’ said Loretta , grateful that her unpremeditated action the day before had made a good impression on Veronica . |
| 12 | The elderly lay proprietor , Miss Cordelia Claybury , had inherited the madhouse from her father who had made a good living out of the rich and insane . |
| 13 | He must have been sixty or so , but you had to get close to see it and if his hair was grey , someone had made a good job of disguising the fact . |
| 14 | The malai photographers had made a good job of it , this genuine FAKINTIL atrocity . |
| 15 | Incidentally , I was interested to read in the Financial Times and other newspapers today that the foreman in the Guinness 2 trial of Mr. Seelig and Lord Spens said that the prosecution had made a good job of identifying the structure of that case . |
| 16 | Tuathal had made a good job , then , of his ambush . |
| 17 | A London agent , apparently acting for someone anxious for an island property , had made a good offer ‘ sight unseen ’ , and Neil 's solicitors ( who knew the place and the difficulties involved ) had strongly advised him to accept it . |
| 18 | Rogers was thinking about a cricket match in which he had made a good score , reliving the running between the wickets as he bucketed about between the shell-bursts . |
| 19 | Others have had a boomerang effect by wiping out natural predators or by obligingly clearing the habitat for another , though equally troublesome , pest-Herbicides which killed poppies in wheatfields cleared the way for wild oats , so that until the ( very expensive ) sprays had been developed to cope with them , a trip through the eastern counties in midsummer could create the strong impression that oats had made a spectacular comeback as a cereals crop . |
| 20 | And they got a huge boost hours later when it was revealed that the president had made a spectacular recovery in the polls . |
| 21 | The ANC secretary-general , Cyril Ramaphosa , said the government had made a major concession on the issue of devolution of power to regional governments . |
| 22 | General Motors of America believed they had made a major breakthrough into the British market in 1985 when they persuaded Foster Yeoman to buy four specially constructed 3,300hp locomotives to haul heavy stone traffic from their Merehead quarry to locations in the South East . |
| 23 | The Empire had made a major contribution , in men and resources , to the French war effort , much national pride was invested in it , and it was seen as a source of continuing French influence in the world . |
| 24 | Probably because it started the 1980s with a fleet of new 125mph HSTs which had made a major impact on its market , the East Coast main line was far better placed to withstand the rigours of the recession than its West Coast neighbour . |
| 25 | Returning from a break in Wales , we found annual nettles , chickweed and seedling thistles had made a major takeover bid for the plot ; a bit of a blow , but not entirely unexpected . |
| 26 | But the Germans really had little to boast about ; they too had made a major blunder early on by concentrating on the construction of Zeppelins , and their maintenance of technical superiority during most of the war was almost entirely thanks to the brilliance of a twenty-five-year-old Dutchman , Tony Fokker . |
| 27 | Callaghan had made a forced landing in a field , but they had seen him get out . |
| 28 | One afternoon we had made a forced march around the local countryside with our rucksacks on . |
| 29 | Worse still , after she had made a little money from the publication of a pamphlet containing her beastly poems about him , she commissioned a rubber dress from ‘ her designer ’ . |
| 30 | He had had the benefit of meetings with QC and QC , and had made a personal approach to the Lord Chancellor seeking possible improvements in the payment on account scheme , especially a reduction of the waiting period . |