Example sentences of "had made the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the Republican intervention had made the election into a plebiscite on partition , pressure was put on Porter to withdraw to avoid unionist vote splitting . |
| 2 | It has already been noted that some science students had made the choice between science and arts on the basis that it was easier to keep up with arts in one 's spare time than it was to keep up with science . |
| 3 | And in the afternoon , at the time he was drowned , her mother would call her inside and bolt the door , and they would kneel together and say the rosary for the soul of the father she had never known ; and when all those Hail Mary 's had been said , and the Glory Be 's and the Our Father , and they had made the sign of the Cross together , her mother would pull out the silver Madonna she always kept hidden at her breast and press her lips to it in a way that said everything you needed to know about love and death and being a woman . |
| 4 | In a sense , this huge construction had made the whole of Old Navan redundant , a quaint fringe on the edge of Shopping-Centre Land . |
| 5 | No. 65 was used for this run ; it was the one which had made the trials on Anerley Hill before public service commenced . |
| 6 | Just after the GP had made the request for respite care this daughter-in-law suddenly died . |
| 7 | Arens said that he had made the request for a permanent upgrade during talks with the US Defence Secretary , Dick Cheney , in late May [ see p. 38310 ] . |
| 8 | She had made the mistake of assuming they would think as she did . |
| 9 | There , whilst waiting , he had made the mistake of sitting down , and now discovered to his chagrin that when he wanted to stand again his legs would not respond . |
| 10 | He had made the mistake of going via Salisbury because his bride of six months , who was twenty years younger than him , wanted to look at the cathedral . |
| 11 | Geoff 's psychiatrist and other staff had made the mistake of dismissing his reported drinking as being a symptom of his depression rather than checking out its true origin . |
| 12 | According to this view , Idealism had made the mistake of subordinating political considerations to moral considerations . |
| 13 | Somebody , not informed of Branson 's excitable nature , had made the mistake of arranging the buffet luncheon around an open-air swimming-pool ; within minutes , waiters , guests and chairs were all in the pool . |
| 14 | I had made the mistake of volunteering to sleep on the couch in the living room on the nights that Janice stayed at our flat ; this offer was made with what I thought was obvious sarcasm one evening while Gav and Norris were attempting to develop a technique for cooking poppadoms in the microwave . |
| 15 | Auguste and Sid had made the mistake of sharing a machine . |
| 16 | Robert had made the mistake of looking Hasan up in the work in question , at the end of which he had almost decided to call in an exorcist with some experience in the Islamic field . |
| 17 | Bartocci was staring angrily at Zen , who realized that he had made the mistake of speaking as though the letter really existed , as if the kidnapping was genuine . |
| 18 | Faccenda had made the mistake of not having such an express term in their employment contracts . |
| 19 | On the debtor 's instructions a summons was issued in Manchester by Coleman & Co. , as agents for Marshalls , seeking disclosure of the liquidator 's report on the basis of which the court had made the order for the examination of the debtor . |
| 20 | The grounds of the appeal were , inter alia , that ( 1 ) there was no sufficient evidence that the requirements of section 31 of the Children Act 1989 had been satisfied ; ( 2 ) the justices had made the order on the ground that to do otherwise would cause harm to the boy , when the Act required the justices to find that ‘ significant harm ’ would be caused before making the order ; and ( 3 ) the justices failed to state their reasons adequately . |
| 21 | In later proceedings , " The Independent " and several other newspapers were held to have been in contempt of the court which had made the order against " The Guardian " and were fined , notwithstanding that by this time the Government had lost its original action against " The Guardian . " |
| 22 | However , in the end it had seemed as though Ross had made the decision for her . |
| 23 | Their grandparents had made the lounge into a bedroom so that Grandad did n't have to do the stairs with his bad legs and a bedroom had been turned into a sitting room and furnished with a table , chairs and sideboard that her parents had acquired when they got married though they had no house to put it in . |
| 24 | Middlemass had finished The Times crossword by quarter to ten and had made the rest of the paper last as long as possible . |
| 25 | Nurse Jones , bless her , had made the pot of tea . |
| 26 | At the very least he had made the subject of Islam one of widespread fascination in the West . |
| 27 | A hefty contingent of English spectators had made the trip to Paris to support Mill Reef , and at the off his price on the Pari-Mutuel was 10–7 on . |
| 28 | She wondered whether the detectives on the case had made the link between Veronica and the letter in her husband 's sock drawer . |
| 29 | In nine counties the forests were ordered to be kept by the same bounds as before the war between King John and his barons ; on 27 October 1228 the juries who had made the perambulations of the Yorkshire forests of Galtres and Farndale , and the forest between Ouse and Derwent , obediently amended their verdicts . |
| 30 | The jurors who had made the perambulations in 1225 were summoned to explain why they had put out of the forest districts which had been forest before 1154 , and also royal demesnes . |