Example sentences of "[vb past] made " in BNC.
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| 1 | His objection to these studies was that the passages these investigators used made very little sense unless subjects did have some prior knowledge of their content . |
| 2 | Three of the schools visited made regular use of a video recording of The Machine Gunners as a basis for a further topic work . |
| 3 | I know we as a nation are not renowned for our ability to serve but the general level of indifference , apathy and downright rudeness I encountered made even me , a cynical bastard at the best of times , wince . |
| 4 | ‘ Well it 's a it 's a it 's a place and it 's a g-girl and a boy … and the-they 've got obviously something which is is made some made made made well it 's just beginning to go and be rather unpleasant ( ha ! ha ! ) um and this is in the this is the the woman and she 's put putting some stuff and the it 's it 's that 's being really too big t-to do and nobody seems to have got anything there at all at all and er it 's … |
| 5 | ‘ Good ideas , ’ Boyd says , ‘ none of which ever got made . ’ |
| 6 | But the film got made . ’ |
| 7 | They wanted to get on but that made me swear if I ever got made Sergeant , I would never treat a man the way I was treated . |
| 8 | If you passed for Sergeant , you got two ten-shilling special allowances , and when I got made Sergeant , I was on a bike allowance of seven shillings a week . |
| 9 | A. T. I passed for Sergeant seventeen years before I got made up . |
| 10 | We had the same bills after he got made redundant . |
| 11 | When he first got made redundant he got earnings-related dole , about £7 for himself , but I never had money of my own . |
| 12 | I 'd ask him to clean the bath when he got out or occasionally hoover , but he would n't so we rowed about that , especially after he got made redundant . |
| 13 | Erm and it became too much for them because people were working more efficient , and therefore there was a an increase in the productivity level , and so they had to increase the number of foremen and chargehands , which was n't a bad thing because it was always our members that got made up to these respective er positions . |
| 14 | Think it was with a bit of Ellie 's assistance that it got made like that . |
| 15 | But the the people I met made up for that . |
| 16 | The last time they 'd made love , or would , probably . |
| 17 | Perhaps it would have been too easy : they 'd made love the first night they met , both involved with women who gave them pain . |
| 18 | ‘ If you 'd made it you 'd presumably insist it was Irish stew . |
| 19 | Suddenly , they 'd made it : huge black fluttering blots on the smooth features of a full frame Elvis . |
| 20 | He 'd made major strides in establishing the kind of company he wanted , which was n't the kind of company David wanted , and I think David saw that when he got to New York . |
| 21 | I thought about all the young men who 'd climbed into those machines and the death they 'd seen and the death they 'd made and the death they 'd received . |
| 22 | Even up here in the wood miles away from the class-room Philip felt his face burn at the way he 'd made a fool of himself . |
| 23 | ‘ That 's cruel , ’ said Lee , holding on to Caspar with two hands through the loop he 'd made in the end of the wire . |
| 24 | He 'd made a regular spaghetti junction of his potato . |
| 25 | Way back , he found the sketch he 'd made of the hide . |
| 26 | And there were all the other women he 'd made lucky too — all the hairdressers he 'd flirted with , all the travel agents , florists and girls in bars . |
| 27 | ‘ … and you see , when Hitler became bosoms with Stalin just before this stupid war started — I still think it 's a stupid war — it dawned on me that he 'd made a nonsense of my belief in him . ’ |
| 28 | The engines roared and gushed , and Star Eye were on their way to the city , substantially richer than before they 'd made the diversion . |
| 29 | She would be taken care of ; he 'd made sure of that . |
| 30 | He told me of a visit he 'd made to California . |