Example sentences of "had made [prep] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Then he stared at the barrier of earth Heather had made along the hayfield side of the fire . |
| 6 | He showed pictures of a recent trip he had made along the Cumbrian Way . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | William Day stated that he had made towards the shadow , but Tidbury had barred his way and ushered him towards home . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 … ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Chairman Lord Rees paid tribute to the 20-year contribution Chris had made to the company . |
| 21 | ( In spite of his enduring understudy status and certain representations that George Birkitt had made to the Company Manager , Charles was still in there . ) |
| 22 | Gina gave a little cry , half-sigh , half-despair as she recognised the allusion he had made to the aquavit in Ib 's Club . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 " . |
| 25 | He made a series of trips to Algeria reminiscent of those that he had made to the French provinces in the autumn of 1944 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Statements they had made to the police would be submitted . |
| 28 | Since this was Keith Jones ' last committee meeting , the committee expressed its gratitude for the valuable contributions he had made to the committee . |
| 29 | The Foreign Office requested an assessment from the War Office in December 1949 to clarify or confirm the analysis the Foreign Office had made of the respective strength of the two sides . |
| 30 | They said that something had to be done to put right the mess which the Government had made of the Self-Governing Schools etc . |