Example sentences of "they have made a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Then there was another one , outside the church , they 'd made a hole for a man to sit in there , and he used to sell papers .
2 I spent the whole of my first year waiting to be tapped on the shoulder and told they 'd made a mistake .
3 They 'd made a mistake .
4 I think it 's very instructive that er H B F did n't deny that they 'd made a mistake on this number and just talking about old people , er the fact is that eighty five percent of deaths in the county occur to people aged over sixty five .
5 Oh so they 'd made a mistake .
6 I knew they 'd made a lot of money .
7 They 'd made a vow , you see , all that time ago …
8 They 've made a contribution towards
9 I thought you were gon na say they 've made a mess .
10 still we want this , we want this , they 've made a request to have this done and it 's government funded and so it 's quite an interesting project really just to record things
11 I mean , they should n't want more than seven per cent because the cost of living , you know , the inflation 's gone down , but then when a bloke gets forty five thousand quid , you know eh , on a firm where they 've a , they 've made a profit , but he got an increase of forty five thousand pound which was of , no , no about forty per cent rather , forty per cent increase in his salary , I mean it 's bloody , I mean , how can , how can they expect , you know , the ordinary working man to put up with bloody awful increase , if , if they go and give bosses increases like that , I mean it does n't make sense .
12 They can either admit they 've made a mistake , or they can make it compulsory .
13 They 've made a mistake have n't they ?
14 er they say , and if then they 've made a mistake you have done what you are told , I mean if you take a big ladder and it 's only a wee fire , a small car bump and then there is a big fire later on , somewhere else and they have n't got their , the right appliances because you 're at that place with the wrong stuff , then that would cause problems would n't it ?
15 Doctors believe they 've made a breakthough in the treatment of breast cancer using drugs instead of surgery .
16 Nearly a thousand years ago the first settlers made the Glemmtal valley their home , and ever since they 've made a point of extending a warm welcome to all-comers .
17 they snapped it up at that price that his er sold and then they could n't pay er when , when the time came , you know the everything went off , so they sold it and bought something else and they 've made a lot of money on that so they 've paid it off and have er a lot of money on the house
18 Best of all , they had made a plan together .
19 Last night the investigating team said they had made a breakthrough when a missing hood from James 's anorak was discovered by officers searching the area .
20 They had made a friend — a very good friend — and they dearly wanted him to come and see them again .
21 By 1990 turnover had increased to £150,000 and they had made a profit of £32,000 .
22 It was almost as if he felt that they had made a fool of him in 1945 – 46 and was trying to atone for his naiveté .
23 I felt like Plain Jane , and Dustin felt they had made a mistake in choosing him for the film in the first place .
24 They had made a mistake , that was all , and sent it to his son .
25 In January this year , the Legal Aid Board decided they had made a mistake , and withdrew legal aid .
26 That was the strong inside bet from Central Park yesterday as the champions angrily denied they had made a move for Sydney St George coach Brian Smith to succeed Monie .
27 The police soon traced the couple 's movements and found they had made a number of telephone calls to Paris .
28 I HAVE no doubt that the vandals who defaced Bomber Harris 's statue are feeling pretty smug and probably thinking that they had made a point for Dresden .
29 Usually they really believe this and do not accept that they have made a mistake .
30 If Hamer have sought to redesign this feature so that it looks better overall then I 'd suggest that they have made a mistake .
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