Example sentences of "and made [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She relieved him of it , and made five bullets count , dropping Minutemen and Daughters where they stood . |
| 2 | ‘ They laid cardboard sheets meticulously and made small piles of combustible material to start the fire . |
| 3 | It was soon dark , but a watery moon penetrated the iron grille and made silver stripes across the floor . |
| 4 | some ( about 45% ) liked it a lot and made useful suggestions . |
| 5 | Basically , what has happened is that progress in technology , allied with rising affluence , has transformed availability of media and made personal choice both possible and affordable . |
| 6 | She held it on her finger and sang to it and made little kissing noises with her lips that he tried to imitate . |
| 7 | In England the codes of the Anglo-Saxon kings , although they covered only a fraction of the area covered by custom , and although they contained numerous traditional items , involved some new legislation and made little pretence of not doing so . |
| 8 | It looked very different to a nautical chart and made little sense to me , but I gradually deciphered some of the meaning from its weird markings . |
| 9 | The former Bournemouth player squandered three first-half chances and made little impact after the interval . |
| 10 | Like other wild creatures , he moved with the seasons in search of food and made little impression on the countryside . |
| 11 | She then went to Ibiza and made similar claims against four men . |
| 12 | Mada Joyce had , it seemed , no husband but seven children from three different fathers , each apparently blacker than the one before and the latest , who occasionally visited and made half-hearted repairs to the shack , Nana dismissed as ‘ nothing but pure Negro . ’ |
| 13 | Occasionally she groaned and made half-hearted kicks at her agonizingly swollen belly . |
| 14 | Starting on a sad note , THE FACE pays respect to Savile Row 's Tommy Nutter , the man who dressed Mick Jagger and Jack Nicholson ( in Batman ) and made flared trousers hip ( the first time around . |
| 15 | Ever Ready , a battery maker , was losing market share to Duracell and made pre-tax profits of only £4.2m when Hanson bought it in 1981 . |
| 16 | ‘ I sat back a little bit more than usual and made sure things were organised . |
| 17 | They had executed him and his family , and made sure Shallot paid the price . |
| 18 | The Government has curtailed the growth in expenditure on the traditional welfare state , and , as has been seen , abolished some benefits and made real cuts in the value of others . |
| 19 | and on the corner here is this road , where you go park road there , they used to have a place where they killed pigs and made black puddings in the middle of main street |
| 20 | Common lawyers detested the right of benefit of clergy , and made strenuous efforts to legislate against the practice in the parliaments of 1512 and 1515 . |
| 21 | Unaware that the papacy had lost much of its earlier counter-Reformation vigour and that relations between Rome and Paris were far from harmonious , many English Protestants remained convinced that their church was increasingly at risk from the growing ambition of Louis XIV , and made strenuous efforts to divert Charles and James from their pro-Catholic paths . |
| 22 | Brian Pearse FCIB , Deputy Chairman , responded and made strong reference to the need for a return to high standards of banking education . |
| 23 | The reason for breaking our vows were pecuniary and made financial sense . |
| 24 | What they were based on , and I I have to say it though , that since poverty in all its forms has proved an intractable enemy to us , and given the limited Council resources that were available , plus the Government , which has consistently attacked Local Authorities and made financial constraints upon us almost impossible to operate , we have we recognise that to analyse the job in hand , first of all we needed an accurate picture of need , we needed to share the commitment with the workforce of Council and all those in partnership of consultation . |
| 25 | Does it count for nothing that Romania , according to her own claims , has repaid her entire hard currency debt and made future borrowing from the West illegal ? |
| 26 | She spent a pleasant few minutes thinking of her small business where she designed and made exclusive wedding gowns for a rapidly growing circle of customers , but Dana 's early-morning phone call refused to be dismissed . |
| 27 | Spalding also suggests that the introduction of highly technologised industry , leading to high levels of unemployment , has weakened the labour movement and made political alliances necessary . |
| 28 | Although this extension of the frontiers beyond the Danube , even to the banks of the Dniester , gave Rome access to the rich grain-growing areas of Wallachia and the mineral wealth of Transylvania , it also stretched the imperial lines of communication and made central control from Rome more difficult . |
| 29 | Eyvør woke up and made food-begging noises , so the Birdman finished his story and cut up some more strips of herring which he fed to the little bird . |
| 30 | Having thoroughly inspected the two houses and made various suggestions — such as , ‘ You must provide electric blankets for all beds in this climate ’ — to our great relief she took us on . |