Example sentences of "she [adv] made [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She quickly made friends with the Reverend Esme Beswick , general secretary of the Joint Council for Anglo-Caribbean Churches . |
| 2 | She always made Jack feel inadequate — a soft southerner in this hard north-eastern territory . |
| 3 | The first animal she ever made friends with was a pig : ‘ When I was small I always wanted to join a circus with a troupe of six Tamworth pigs . |
| 4 | And as proof in the healing power of accepted love her hands undid him , as he undid her , until , naked together , he lifted himself to enter her , and if for McAllister there was a moment of trapped fear it disappeared when she was truly his , and they were , at last , one thing , moving together in harmony in an experience quite unlike the shock and terror which she had felt with Havvie , and had always feared would happen to her if she ever made love again . |
| 5 | But she still made change . |
| 6 | Haunted by penury for the rest of her life , she habitually made notes over other people 's letters and wrote her own on the back of old laundry bills . |
| 7 | Although subsequently in the 1910s and early 1920s , she furthered her experiments with abstraction in watercolour and oil , examples of which include the ‘ Evening Star ’ series ( 1917 ) and ‘ Blue and Green Music ’ ( 1919 ) , she also made paintings that were decidedly realistic in character , like ‘ Plums ’ ( 1920 ) , or semi-abstract , like ‘ Light Coming on the Plains II ’ ( 1917 ) . |
| 8 | She really made Seles fight , in a hard-hitting baseline battle which at the same time surely set a new decibel record ! |
| 9 | She frequently made use of Coptic craftsmen and one of them , a leather-worker , who had been repairing a handbag she was particularly fond of , was bringing it to her flat with his small son when he was attacked by a gang of youths . |
| 10 | She even made pound cake — you know , a pound of butter , a pound of flour , a pound of eggs — without weighing anything . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You have never got out of the childish habit of trying to do several things at once , ’ Sally had said to her once ; Sally , so cool , so contained , so efficient she sometimes made Harriet feel as if she were still a child , though of course she would never admit it . |
| 12 | Somehow she again made contact with the young man . |
| 13 | She never made difficulties about little things . |
| 14 | Fru Gertlinger knew that Elisabeth did not want to unpick the past with her and she never made mention of it . |
| 15 | She certainly made threats against Angela and has bothered her recently . |