Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] made [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they 'd definitely made progress . |
| 2 | But these scabs went back and made slates , and there was erm two officials there , they they 'd never made slate when we were working up there . |
| 3 | Yes , they had been neighbours in Shrewsbury , but of course they had only seen each other during the school holidays , and of course they had n't made friends over some grotty little terrace-house garden fence ; he 'd first noticed her from the tree house in his parents ' garden while she was learning to ride her new pony in her parents ' ten acres of mature woodland and well-kept pasture . |
| 4 | They had n't made university and the difference between their comfortable life style — houses on an executive estate , en suite bathrooms , artificial coal fires in what they called the lounge , working wives , a new car every two years and timeshares in Majorca — provided both with agreeable hours of self-satisfied comparisons which he knew would always end with the same conclusion , that he ought to pull himself together , that it was n't right , not after all the sacrifices Mum and Dad had made to send him to college , and a fine waste of money that had proved . |
| 5 | They had just made love again ; this time more slowly though just as wonderfully . |
| 6 | Not until the anonymous informant had rung again on 4 August and there had been more calls to Lawrence , and they had finally made contact with John Lewis , did the Panel begin to find out what had really happened . |
| 7 | On the other hand , she thought miserably , what if they had already made love , and were now dozing ; before waking to start all over again ? |
| 8 | She sat and ate it with them now , and oh , it was torture that in deference to propriety and Matey they had not made love again as they had done that golden afternoon , always to be remembered . |
| 9 | But he denied they had ever made love . |
| 10 | Over the years they had often made love like this , in his back bedroom when the parents were in the house — Rachel seemed to enjoy the danger — although never on the floor before ! |