Example sentences of "had made [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another criticism generally expressed was that headhunters , having approached a candidate and then been turned down , did not hesitate to make the most of the contact they had made despite the rejection and go on to ask , ‘ Well , can you recommend someone who would be interested ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ See you tomorrow , then , Cavell , ’ she confirmed an arrangement they had made during the course of the evening , ignoring Luke now but still acutely conscious of his attention as she thanked the Estwicks again and departed with Florian and Nicky . |
| 3 | This was seen by some as an attempt to improve his image abroad after remarks which he had made during the presidential election campaign to the effect that he was " untainted " with Jewishness . |
| 4 | Fishing , which centuries of experience had made into a great food-supplying industry , and which was blessed by the exceptionally rich fishing grounds of the North Sea and the North Atlantic , also employed ships and provided a livelihood for thousands of men . |
| 5 | Except what he had made into a story . |
| 6 | And I saw a dear little shed that someone had made into a craft shop , and the woman said no one had been in for ages , and was n't she pleased to see me … ’ |
| 7 | In mechanics there were interactions in which momentum ( mv ) was conserved , and others in which vis viva ( mv 2 ) was unchanged ; but down to the middle of the nineteenth century there was no principle of the same generality as that which Lavoisier had made into the foundation of chemistry . |
| 8 | Then he stared at the barrier of earth Heather had made along the hayfield side of the fire . |
| 9 | He showed pictures of a recent trip he had made along the Cumbrian Way . |
| 10 | He persuaded a friend he had made through the gallery , Sheridan Dufferin , then an undergraduate at Christchurch , to go a good deal higher , and it worked . |
| 11 | William Day stated that he had made towards the shadow , but Tidbury had barred his way and ushered him towards home . |
| 12 | The fact that had struck them both , however , was the date the genotyping had given for the conception of the boy : a date which coincided with a visit Wyatt , Berdichev and Lehmann had made to a singsong house in the Clay . |
| 13 | In assessing the financial relief to be awarded to the former wife of a millionaire after their divorce , pursuant to section 25 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 ( as amended by section 3 of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 ) , the court should not calculate the wife 's share solely by reference to her needs , but could take account also of any exceptional contribution she had made to the creation of the husband 's wealth . |
| 14 | In recognition of the enormous contribution that their Service had made to the successful conclusion of WWII , the Air Council set up after the war a war memorial committee . |
| 15 | As a long-service employee she knew from first-hand experience the contribution Mark had made to the expansion of the Corporation over the years . |
| 16 | And so , she said , ‘ You seem to have been busy this morning , Isabel , ’ but absently remembering the bumping noises from above and the journeys her sister had made to the front sitting room ( locking the door after her ) and back again to the attic ( locking the door ) . |
| 17 | Loxton was reminded of an earlier statement he had made to the police stating that the time of the second appearance was between 6pm and 6.05pm . |
| 18 | The only change she had made to the property was to build a garage , and after he had unloaded and put away the Jaguar he decided to climb to the top chamber of the mill while it was still light . |
| 19 | In support of a recent complaint it had made to the EC Commission , Tretorn cites Article 85(1) ( d ) and Article 86(c) of the Treaty of Rome , which refers to ‘ dissimilar conditions to equivalent transactions with other trading parties , thereby placing them at a competitive disadvantage . |
| 20 | Participants were asked to write a letter to themselves as if from an imaginary — or real — ex-pupil , expressing their appreciation for the contribution that they , the teachers , had made to the pupil 's life . |
| 21 | He did n't know ‘ what statement Mr. Gibbon had made to the other gentlemen or what reasoning they could have employed so as to sign a paper declaring the fact of urinous vomiting to be utterly impossible — here I must be at issue with them believing as I do … from my little physiological knowledge , that vomiting of urine for 26 weeks is by no means impossible … ’ . |
| 22 | As he said these words he remembered again the vow he had made to the powers of Callanish which was that he would let Minch go before him . |
| 23 | Cade occurs frequently in the early pipe rolls of Henry II 's reign , where payments to him of around £5,600 are recorded , in settlement of various loans that he had made to the Crown . |
| 24 | Chairman Lord Rees paid tribute to the 20-year contribution Chris had made to the company . |
| 25 | ( In spite of his enduring understudy status and certain representations that George Birkitt had made to the Company Manager , Charles was still in there . ) |
| 26 | Gina gave a little cry , half-sigh , half-despair as she recognised the allusion he had made to the aquavit in Ib 's Club . |
| 27 | We discussed the present situation and the representations that we had made to the People 's Republic of China , and I reaffirmed the fact that I would continue to make such representations . |
| 28 | Comments which she had made to the Washington Post after the Los Angeles riots — including the remark that " if black people kill black people every day , why not have a week killing white people ? " — were , Clinton said , " filled with a kind of hatred that you do not honour tonight " . |
| 29 | He made a series of trips to Algeria reminiscent of those that he had made to the French provinces in the autumn of 1944 . |
| 30 | Roughly halfway between the target and the coast the rear gunner signalled that we were about to be attacked and my ham-fisted evasive action severed the repair that the Night engineer had made to the aileron controls . |