Example sentences of "already made a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd already made a bit of a name for herself , only locally but you know what the Germans are about music , and the district party bosses liked romantic pieces so she became the star turn at their more respectable booze-ups . |
| 2 | Greenpeace , the environmental pressure group which had already made a name for itself by chasing whalers on the high seas , sent its own vessel , the Rainbow Warrior , to shadow the nuclear ship out into the Atlantic . |
| 3 | A sort of cross between Kurt Cobain and a Fraggle , James has already made a name for himself in the office for dancing around and waving his arms wildly while he talks , not forgetting the regular swishing back of that blond mop . |
| 4 | Bowie has already made a name for himself as an actor in a string of top movies , including The Hunger and The Man Who Fell To Earth , but this is the TV break he has been waiting for . |
| 5 | She had been a feature writer here for two years and at twenty-five she had already made a name for herself . |
| 6 | I think also there was the sense that the sorts of books that a lady was expected to write were perhaps rather different from the sorts of books that a gentleman is required to write , and George Eliot had already made a name for herself as a writer of erm considerable independence of mind who , I think , wanted to be regarded as a writer , rather than as a lady novelist . |
| 7 | I I 've already made a ruling on that , on that point . |
| 8 | His team mates have already made a collection for him and twenty Benson and Hedges , plus two old betting slips allegedly once owned by Lou Macari , will be presented to Terry at half-time . |
| 9 | Fabric boots had already made a comeback in quantity , encouraged by several years of hot , dry summers and a wider market . |
| 10 | An extensive treatment of this issue is not the concern of this book , and it is assumed that the reader has already made a study of it elsewhere , usually in some introductory study of economics . |
| 11 | An alternative way of stopping date and time values from changing if you have already made a lot of entries into a spreadsheet is to use the /Range , Value command and specifying the relevant range of cells when prompted ‘ Convert what ? and then pressing enter twice so that the same starting point is used for ‘ To where ? ’ . |
| 12 | But it had already made a difference in the balance of class origins of future generations . |
| 13 | I should have mentioned that Joe Lawley and Graham Lloyd have already made a start with tree clearance . |
| 14 | They have already made a start on collating and indexing all the paraphernalia that has accumulated over the years . |
| 15 | All this might sound far-fetched ; but one firm , Sanyo , has already made a step in the direction of home automation . |
| 16 | For instance , nothing is more likely than that Prothero , when he said that association with Blast ‘ stamped a man too disadvantageously ’ , had in mind among other things Ford 's connection with the magazine and the scandal of Ford 's relations with Violet Hunt — a scandal that had already made a breach between Violet Hunt and the cruelly timorous Henry James , as told painfully in I Have This to Say . |
| 17 | I 've already made a list of the questions you should ask h — ’ |
| 18 | The commission has already made a number of improvements . |
| 19 | I had already made a number of smaller works with Lascaux Aquacryl on watercolour pads and clocks , so I was aware of the colour range and paint handling . |
| 20 | Archaeologists from Newcastle University have already made a number of test excavations at the site of the extension and found nothing of historical value . |