Example sentences of "it [adv] made [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I tried to explain to them about the golf-ball it only made matters worse . |
| 2 | Its latest figures show that on £1.2bn of business it only made £18m profit . |
| 3 | It only made sense to put tea back a bit . |
| 4 | But it only made things worse . |
| 5 | She found it only made things worse if she struggled , bringing her even more intimately against his muscular shape . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , I considered most carefully what might be the most opportune occasion to bring the matter up with him ; for although I would not for one moment , as I say , suspect Mr Farraday of inconsistency , it nevertheless made sense not to broach the topic when he was preoccupied or distracted . |
| 7 | Although the Royal Navy was slow to appreciate the danger posed by Exocet in the Falklands conflict , it soon made amends . |
| 8 | It always made Alice wince . |
| 9 | It also made Julia angry , pointing up the unnecessary rudeness of Comfort 's dismissal of David . |
| 10 | It also made statements on pressing issues in the church and the world . |
| 11 | Whores would sometimes don men 's apparel , leading to Charles I to issue an order forbidding it , because it now made whores more difficult to detect , but this was generally ignored by the soldiery . |