Example sentences of "made a [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Times caressed us with recondite information : no Pakistani batsman had made a century at Headingley ; Pakistan bowled their 100th no-ball in the series ( Wasim Akram , not out 63 ) . |
| 2 | Rufus put the receiver back , feeling a clutch at his stomach as if a hard hand had made a grab at the muscles . |
| 3 | The group 's Snob subsidiary is steadily raising its sales per square foot and management has made a breakthrough at the previously troubled Peter Brown menswear acquisition , which has performed markedly better since June . |
| 4 | Have you made a will at all ? |
| 5 | It may be unconscious , but we 've made a decision at some stage about how it 's going to be . |
| 6 | I 've just talked about what happens when a branch member wants to appeal but this is a branch as a whole that 's made a decision at a meeting that it does n't agree with something that 's happened . |
| 7 | A National Consumer Council report suggests that only 31% of council and housing associations tenants were satisfied with the way in which their complaints were handled , and that one in six tenants dissatisfied with the service provided by their landlord had not made a complaint at all . |
| 8 | Carlo was made a cardinal at 22 and Archbishop of Milan at 26 , though it has been suggested that these appointments were as much due to the boy 's uncle being Pope Pius IV as to any inherent abilities . |
| 9 | The pregnant woman , having just made a face at the taste of the spicy chicken wings , just as Belinda had done , was about to take a sip of Greg 's very strong gin and tonic . |
| 10 | Do n't tell me he has n't made a set at your pretty mistress ! ’ |
| 11 | Had he made a pass at her , wondered Lydia ? |
| 12 | She had made a pass at me , of course , but I had left her and her dead eyes in her big , empty house . |
| 13 | It seemed odd that he loathed her with such intensity and yet had made a pass at her . |
| 14 | Had he made a pass at her ? |
| 15 | Erm y'know that that sort of thing when they when they y'know when they might be , when they feel when they feel that some some other bloke 's making an approach to them , when they feel that er y'know erm somebody finds them attractive , when they think that some other bloke has made a pass at them or something like that y'know they sort of react in a hostile way but y'know there 's that suspicion that mm er y'know kind of er it 's because they 're insecure about their masculinity , it 's because they feel threatened or something like that . |
| 16 | more than sixty feet long and erm over the last two or three years er I 've made a patio at the bottom , right the whole width of the garden |
| 17 | Not surprisingly , they believed they had only made a stab at it , From the start Wave and HHCL were determined to build the campaign around an organisation with a sound commercial and practical justification for funding such advertising ; someone with a vested interest in curbing consumer greed . |
| 18 | Pauline had made a reservation at the Waterside Café in Bridgetown for 12.30 . |
| 19 | She had made a reservation at a restaurant next door to the pub where Culley had met Kelso . |
| 20 | There has been much comment by Cleese , as well as others , about how being 6ft at the age of 12 ( he 's now 6ft 5in ) , and not being made a prefect at his public school , and being the only child of older , lower middle-class parents , set for a career as a solicitor , began the problems and embarrassments that inspire his comedy . |
| 21 | The bald election result was bad enough , but then there were the personal touches : that brave but shattered look on Glenys ' face as Neil announced his resignation , the dreadful picture on the back of the Independent of a group of City dickheads celebrating their unexpected winnings , and the downright irritating news that my fellow chatterer on Stop the Week , Milton Shulman , had made a packet at Ladbroke 's predicting the correct result . |
| 22 | She did n't seem to be looking at the album , at least not any more ; she did n't seem to have made a start at getting ready , either . |