Example sentences of "she [verb] made a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You must tell your friend , ’ continued the lady , ‘ that she has made a mistake . |
| 2 | She has made a choice not only of person , but of class . |
| 3 | We learn that John has had an affair with a fashion model ( Sunny Griffin ) , who moves in with her dresses , wigs and dog , but decides to leave after she has made a mess of the kitchen by boiling the spaghetti over . |
| 4 | At times the loneliness of her position has brought her to the edge of despair , so much so that she has made a number of suicide attempts , some more half-hearted than others . |
| 5 | She has made a career as a backbencher , taking an interest in penal affairs and animal welfare . |
| 6 | She has made a list of the items the business owns . |
| 7 | She knew she 'd made a hash of the whole thing , and she 'd let her tongue run away with her . |
| 8 | As he poured the tea , Peter wondered if she 'd told James about how she 'd made a fool of him ; perhaps they had laughed at him together . |
| 9 | He never pretended to feelings he did n't have and if he thought she 'd made a fool of herself he 'd say so , but never to do her down , never to boost himself at her expense . |
| 10 | Azmaveth considered something for a few moments and then nodded to herself , as if she 'd made a decision . |
| 11 | She phoned Meg again and told her she was so silly , she 'd made a muddle with the dates of two concerts , and it would be perfectly all right for them to come tonight but only if Meg was absolutely sure it would n't be too much trouble , it was so sweet of her … |
| 12 | She 'd made a point of spending every spare minute she could with her . |
| 13 | She used to sing at parties and school discos when she was ten years old , and wishes she 'd made a record . |
| 14 | She had made a change in her life , broken away from her mother . |
| 15 | In the process she had made a lightning circumnavigation of the British Isles and was now steaming hard down the west coast while we returned by the eastern route . |
| 16 | Private Eye is appealing against the record £600,000 damages paid to Mrs Sutcliffe after a seven-day trial last May , in which she alleged the magazine had libelled her by claiming in its ‘ Street of Shame ’ column that she had made a £250,000 deal with the Daily Mail for her story after a night of ‘ carousing ’ with the paper 's journalists in a hotel . |
| 17 | She had made a fool of him and he would n't let that go . |
| 18 | That was when she had made a fool of herself . |
| 19 | And , although she was rapidly coming to the conclusion that she had made a fool of herself all down the line , she still did n't quite know how . |
| 20 | She had made a fool of herself . |
| 21 | Between them she had made a decision based only on panic and no common sense . |
| 22 | Down on the steps , Marie had decided that she had made a mistake . |
| 23 | She was beginning to feel that she had made a mistake , and allowed herself to be exploited . |
| 24 | Ah , Elisa said , yes , of course , she had made a mistake . |
| 25 | I was terrifically embarrassed , but Karen did not once so much as glance in my direction , and after a while I began to suspect that she had made a mistake too . |
| 26 | She had never seen her in the morning and she knew instinctively that she had made a mistake in arriving without warning . |
| 27 | A girl lunged over the grid , screaming that she had made a mistake , fingers just missing the disappearing chips . |
| 28 | She dropped the dear , she had made a mistake there , he was not the sort you called dear . |
| 29 | She had made a mistake and would make many more before she was finished . |
| 30 | She squeezed her eyes shut and lowered her head , hiding behind her curtain of auburn curls , battling with the tears , battling with the fact that it mattered because she had made a mistake again . |