Example sentences of "had made [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Harris , Harris and Overdene Christmas party three years ago he had made what some considered to be the funniest impromptu speech anyone had ever heard inside the office . |
| 2 | Eduardo Mondlane found that African carvers in nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Mozambique had made their own use of Christian themes imposed by priests and missionaries : |
| 3 | In the later fifth century Christian aristocrats , now frequently bishops , had made their own the literary and rhetorical culture of the pagan aristocracy . |
| 4 | It was therefore with great joy that most people in Britain greeted the recent news that three Beluga whales , which are closely related to dolphins , had made their own bid for freedom . |
| 5 | The established main roads that had been used for traffic between the medieval towns , and had made their own width with the usage of centuries , were generally left untouched by any parish awards . |
| 6 | She had made them some food , then gone out again . |
| 7 | It is built in a style which England had made her own . |
| 8 | She had made her own , to love him again , and it was all she could live with at the moment . |
| 9 | Between January and May 1922 no money from any central agency was given to them , so they had to depend on the surplus of local revenues and gifts after the guberniia relief committee had made its own collections . |
| 10 | Ironically , we heard through the grapevine that the Soviet government had made its own translation of the OECD report for circulation within a narrow circle of officials in the State Committee for Science and Technology ! |
| 11 | In 1964 , he moved to Trinidad to become Dean of Students , which was a promotion , at the UWI campus there , continuing the work he had begun in Kingston by stressing to the students the importance of discipline , physical fitness , responsibility and such like — in other words , all the values that had made him such a successful captain . |
| 12 | She had made him some breakfast about 7.30 . |
| 13 | Another rifleman had bartered some of his Red Cross parcel for a loaf of bread ; ‘ The conditions of living and surviving had made us all as cunning as foxes ’ , so this rifleman that night slept with it under his neck , but someone crept up and cut off both the ends . |
| 14 | I felt that a Ben Johnson made angry by a Carl Lewis had made us all look second-rate . |
| 15 | If Poland was backward it was not because the Poles wanted it so , but because Germany and the other partitioning powers had made it that way , and because the Allies had failed to provide the necessary capital to finance Poland to do the job they required . |
| 16 | Absence from the scene , thought Meredith , and being involved in other countries in other people 's affairs had made it all seem rather long ago . |
| 17 | She did n't see him for a few days after that , and had time to wonder why she had made it all up . |
| 18 | When One had made it all he saw |
| 19 | Justin 's language about the distinction of the Father as God transcendent from the Son as God immanent , which Irenaeus had made his own , precipitated sharp debate ( the so-called monarchian controversy ) at Rome c. 190–225 . |
| 20 | Beethoven learnt more from Haydn than from anyone , and all that he had made his own from that study is put to fascinating use here ; but the music is no reversion , and has its own lightness and gaiety . |
| 21 | If he copies from another drawing in a book the translation from the three-dimensional plane to the two-dimensional drawing will have been done for him , so he will not have had to observe as carefully and think as much as he would have had to do if he had made his own translation . |
| 22 | He could outmanoeuvre them if he wished but he could not get rid of them and he was only groping round in circles about the tree he had made his own . |
| 23 | Such collaboration included participation in the campaign to free Henri Martin imprisoned for alleged subversive , anti-colonial activities , the publication of a series of enthusiastic reports on the Soviet Union following a visit to the USSR in 1954 , twenty years exactly after Nizan had made his own pilgrimage to the mecca of communism , and the production of a pro-communist play Nekrassov . |
| 24 | He had made his own translations of one of the Psalms and Prayers of Cardinal John Fisher [ q.v. ] ( although his theological books show a Puritan tendency ) and of ‘ The Life and Death of Edward II ’ , and he had part of the original manuscript of the Advancement of Learning by Francis Bacon [ q.v . ] . |
| 25 | The garden had been built by his great-great-grandfather , but , like his father and his father 's father , he had made his own small changes to the original scheme , extending the garden to the north , so that it now filled the whole of the ancient island of Manhattan . |
| 26 | And for Jack Henry Moore , who had made his own commitment to sexual politics by coming out years before , the subject was now part of his past . |
| 27 | We had made our own Garden of Eden . |