Example sentences of "they had made [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ See you tomorrow , then , Cavell , ’ she confirmed an arrangement they had made during the course of the evening , ignoring Luke now but still acutely conscious of his attention as she thanked the Estwicks again and departed with Florian and Nicky . |
| 2 | He was quite likely to forget the agreement they had made about the night watchman and , given the slightest excuse , batter the old boy . |
| 3 | Another criticism generally expressed was that headhunters , having approached a candidate and then been turned down , did not hesitate to make the most of the contact they had made despite the rejection and go on to ask , ‘ Well , can you recommend someone who would be interested ? ’ |
| 4 | Their store rooms were crammed with piles of objects , from furniture to fencing , and some of the corridors were blocked with the mounds of things they had made over the years . |
| 5 | Whatever the case , the alliance which they had made with the family of L'Isle jourdain ( closely related to the Duèse clan ) , stood them in good stead with the Avignon papacy until John XXII 's death in 1334 . |
| 6 | For those children going straight to foster families , without even the support of the friends they had made on the journey , natural feelings had to be forced down as adjustments to a new environment and a new language were made . |
| 7 | ‘ A couple of years ago the kids who had been on the trip from Bawnmore just turned up at the self-help group premises and wanted to see the friends they had made on the holiday again , ’ Adree said . |
| 8 | Statements they had made to the police would be submitted . |
| 9 | The barge anchors were unrecognisable as such , more like crustaceans , specimens of some giant type long since discarded by Nature , but still clinging to their old habitat , sunk in the deep pits they had made in the foreshore . |
| 10 | Springfield and Fenton pulled back the flaps of the cut they had made in the chain-link fence , allowing Grant and Larsen to duck through into hostile territory . |