Example sentences of "it [vb past] make a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It happened when a Chipmunk light aircraft from RAF Benson in Oxfordshire hit the ground as it tried to make an emergency landing in Wales . |
| 2 | When I mentioned Spain , it seemed to make a big difference . |
| 3 | Not that it seemed to make a lot of difference . |
| 4 | At this stage it began to make a noise , or , rather , Twoflower started to hear the noise it had been making all along . |
| 5 | Many people have also been distressed when a few minutes after their dog was pronounced dead , it started to make a series of gasping movements . |
| 6 | The revenue figure is 20% down on 1991 and the company revealed it did make a loss last year , though the size was not disclosed . |
| 7 | But it did make a difference — she realized that in the long hours she lay awake thinking about it . |
| 8 | They found that , although it did make a difference in a few cases , most babies got enough iron from solid food to make up for any loss through drinking cow 's milk . |
| 9 | Good Lord ! it did make an impression on me , reading the letters of those men . |
| 10 | He pointed out that when the council was barred from making further payments on the transactions , it had made a profit . |
| 11 | Clifford Howard commented on how Hollywood could ignore all criticisms as ‘ mere wind ’ and ‘ envy ’ for it had made a success of its own business and it had displayed ‘ a Yankee genius for sensing the taste of the public and giving the world what it wants ’ . |
| 12 | In the second half of last year , it had made a loss of £1m , and broke even in the first half of 1992 . |
| 13 | This view had clear implications for the state as actor , but the events of the 1960s showed that it had made a false assumption . |
| 14 | His unconventionality , his unorthodoxy and his accent all helped the party to feel that it had made a step forward : " the dawn of the new regime " . |
| 15 | The African colony to which he returned was regarded by the British government as ‘ advanced ’ — in African terms — which meant that it had made a start on the road to self-government ; however , the Colonial Office reckoned that the goal was still distant . |
| 16 | Of course , it had made a bloody marvellous spectacle — not to mention £125,000 for doing absolutely nothing — but ‘ the boys ’ were growing increasingly restive at having their records , and themselves , banned . |
| 17 | But then the weather changed and although things were given and flowering it was cold and windy and it seemed strange there should be all that blossom , wrong like , as if it had made a mistake and popped up at the wrong time — that was because I had felt the warmth of those few nice days . |
| 18 | It acted as a retreat house and training centre for people attached to the Society of Saint Sylvester but , under Racy 's leadership , it had made a name for itself specialising in an area of the church 's work which Theodora thought was undervalued . |
| 19 | Why initially did the stock market react favourably to the increased dividend declared by Lloyds Bank after it had made a loss of 224 million in the financial year 1986–87 ? |
| 20 | Doncaster Health Authority confirmed yesterday that it had made an undisclosed payment to Mr Rod Brodie and his wife , Valerie , both 38 . |
| 21 | It had made an investment and wanted a quick return , and more . |
| 22 | AST Research Inc is determined to come out as one of the winners in the bitter battle for share in the personal computer market , and yesterday it announced that rather than let the business go in the spin-off of the TE Electronics manufacturing operations , it had made an offer for Tandy Corp 's personal computer manufacturing operations , which had been accepted . |
| 23 | None of the cases in this court to which Mr. Munby has invited our attention are binding on us because seemingly the court never considered what powers it had to make a suitable order under section 13 of the Act of 1960 . |