Example sentences of "they [vb past] make [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even among the former they failed to make a decisive impact upon the labour market before 1914 , due partly to workers ' suspicion of bureaucratic intervention in the labour market and to the indifference of employers , who had little difficulty in finding labour when they needed it . |
| 2 | Alas , they failed to make a complete list and about 60 names of the fallen were left off the temporary plaque . |
| 3 | But diversifying companies found it much harder to exploit economies of scale and scope in these new fields — usually , says Mr Chandler , because they failed to make the same kind of first-mover investments they had made in their primary businesses . |
| 4 | He had no great difficulty in getting together the numbers he required , and simply told them that if they failed to make the grade in training , they would have to return to their original units . |
| 5 | The simple reason for which they failed to make the headlines and fire up the imagination of rugby pundits around the world is that they were blacks and coloureds in an apartheid-ridden South Africa . |
| 6 | They helped to make the 7th and 8th Centuries a time when Jarrow was the largest centre of civilisation west of Rome . |
| 7 | I do n't get the impression that they tried to make a statement by getting more and more obscure . |
| 8 | I was repeatedly threatened with rape and at one stage they tried to make a fellow detainee rape me . |
| 9 | But , once they had arrived in large numbers , they tried to make a reporter 's life as easy as possible , providing basic material about the country and the war , easy access to military experts and well-protected trips to watch the fighting . |
| 10 | They tried to make the Social Work Department follow its guidelines , but some of the parents believed the social workers did n't know much about the document at all . |
| 11 | When they tried to make an arrest , the police were subject to vicious abuse and assault . |
| 12 | Although a number of rather insincere sounding press interviews gave no hint of any rift ( in fact they seemed to make a point of stating the reverse , itself a suspicious fact ) it was said that Morrissey had taken exception to Marr 's increasing amount of non-Smiths activities . |
| 13 | He was determined to let the clan see they 'd made no mistake in choosing him , and was off on a round of visits to all the main families , to impress them with his strength and intelligence , good sense and good humour . |
| 14 | They 'd made a vow , you see , all that time ago … |
| 15 | I spent the whole of my first year waiting to be tapped on the shoulder and told they 'd made a mistake . |
| 16 | Then there was another one , outside the church , they 'd made a hole for a man to sit in there , and he used to sell papers . |
| 17 | They 'd made a mistake . |
| 18 | I think it 's very instructive that er H B F did n't deny that they 'd made a mistake on this number and just talking about old people , er the fact is that eighty five percent of deaths in the county occur to people aged over sixty five . |
| 19 | But then why would Mao in nineteen forty five say that how that they 'd made a major concession to land to the tiller but that this is a correct one and they 're going to , that land reform has to be taken in stages and they 're going to first of all reduce rent and , I mean er |
| 20 | The Judge said they 'd made a strong case about how they 'd be affected by noise from the road . |
| 21 | The Judge said they 'd made a strong case about how they 'd be affected by noise from the road . |
| 22 | I knew they 'd made a lot of money . |
| 23 | Oh so they 'd made a mistake . |
| 24 | There they 'd lit a fire and cooked the rice , but before starting to eat they 'd made an offering to Ban Bhāi , god of the forest , asking permission to plunder his lands . |
| 25 | The engines roared and gushed , and Star Eye were on their way to the city , substantially richer than before they 'd made the diversion . |
| 26 | They 'd hesitated for almost a year before they 'd made the move , finally spurred along by the fact that they 'd grown sick of talking about it . |
| 27 | They began to make a head count , lingering over the names with relish , proud of being survivors . |
| 28 | But missionaries constantly encountered the idea of an interaction between supernatural power and material prosperity , and the complexity of this idea only served to increase the sensitivity which they needed to make an impact on the discussion . |
| 29 | Collections , raffles , sponsored events and a quiz night/disco were held to help the nurses raise the £3,000 they needed to make the trip . |
| 30 | After the ‘ Talk to Your Daughter ’ album came out , people started getting interested and so they started making the guitar again and people started buying it ! ’ |