Example sentences of "[verb] made a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thereafter , we allays made a point of asking the culprit , whenever we wanted to use the bucket for anything from watering the flowers to doing the ironing , ‘ Is this water in here or urine ? ’ |
| 2 | Then Willis bowled Lloyd , four more wickets fell cheaply — Sobers made a duck in his only one-day international — and the final score was 181 . |
| 3 | Do [ if she did ] , she 'd ha' made a mess of me ! |
| 4 | Here Forgive 'N Forget made a mistake and handed the initiative to Wayward Lad , but he was very tired and started to wander to the left towards the rails . |
| 5 | At the end of the book , though , Zuckerman confronts Roth with the opinion that the latter has made a mistake in trying to tame or to shed his imagination in the foregoing text , that fiction is superior to fact , and that the factuality of The Facts is specious . |
| 6 | She has made a crucial contribution to the race and representation debate in the U.S. Through works of self-investigation and transformation Piper explores her own racial identity and forces viewers to question their own values and beliefs . |
| 7 | An infant at eight months who retrieves a completely-occluded object has made a major advance in understanding the appearance-reality distinction , at least on the plane of action , because he now knows that , although the perceptual input at one time tells him that there is no rattle in his reachable space , really there is . |
| 8 | Adrian Jones , who studied for a number of years at Parnham House , has made a similar cabinet , and in the September issue he displays that piece and talks bout his work as a successful furniture-maker . |
| 9 | Age Concern England has urged the Government to monitor more closely the provision by health authorities of continuing care , and has made a number of recommendations about how this might be done . |
| 10 | Having done this , after carefully considering his actions , he has made a statement which may well become the accepted ethic of Lakeland/British climbing . |
| 11 | For example , when Dostoevsky abandons the ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ chapter but retains the brief exchange in which Shatov urges Stavrogin to go to Bishop Tikhon , and Stavrogin replies ‘ Thank you , I will ’ , let nobody persuade us the novelist has made a mistake . |
| 12 | Christopher Ricks , trailing his coat in the wake of the MacCabe Affair , claimed that the critic should have ‘ principles ’ rather than ‘ theory ’ , while Stanley Fish has made a comparable distinction between ‘ theory , ’ and ‘ belief ’ : ‘ A theory is a special achievement of consciousness ; a belief is a prerequisite for being conscious at all . |
| 13 | Fredric Jameson has made a vigorous statement of this difficulty : |
| 14 | In fact she has made a cryptic entrance already in the fifteenth line of this canto : ‘ … of Berengar his heirs was this Eleanor ’ . |
| 15 | IT SEEMS that Roland Franklin , the latest unbundler to appear in the UK , has made a fatal error in the preparation of his £697m break-up bid for stationery and packaging group DRG . |
| 16 | The country 's best known Mao impersonator , an actor called Gu Yue , has made a startling comeback in a new 90-minute epic portraying the last months of China 's civil war . |
| 17 | He lost Manoj Prabhakar , carried away by the exuberance of his own and everybody else 's strokeplay , but Kapil Dev survives - and he is the only Indian who has made a faster Test hundred than Azharuddin 's . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In some ways the share price performance has made a deal with one of the US car giants less likely since the numbers have changed quite dramatically . |
| 20 | Oldham v Barnsley Dobbin , the Barnsley midfielder carried off at Blackpool in midweek , has made a good recovery from a knee injury and may play . |
| 21 | Robson , who watched Rocastle last Saturday , said : ‘ He has made a good start to the season . |
| 22 | The astute Mr Quiles has made a promising start . |
| 23 | According to security sources , a UDR man recently charged with serious terrorist offences has made a series of detailed statements to police naming other members of the regiment as being involved in illegal activities . |
| 24 | ‘ Perhaps Martin Edwards will admit that he has made a mistake selling to the person he has done and the way in which he has sold it . |
| 25 | With The Cook , The Thief , His Wife And Her Lover ( 18 ) he has made a few changes , but certain basic principles hold good : the look of everything is still turned into art history , and the meaning of everything is still turned into nothing , a nothing that sometimes seems despairing and sometimes only smug . |
| 26 | Shares in Bennett & Fountain will hit a fresh low for this year on Monday after an out-of-hours announcement last night that ‘ the group has made a significant pre-tax loss for the year to 30 June ’ , due to difficulties in the retail division . |
| 27 | The singer , herself , has made a fortune out of the insatiable popular curiosity to watch her perform : leggy , tall and unfailingly feminine , with the controversial husk in her voice . |
| 28 | Ansoff has made a distinction between : |
| 29 | The South African Area continues to work hard in support of both the Association and the RAF Benevolent Fund , and has made a special effort this year , the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain . |
| 30 | Anita Roddick has made a virtue of flying in the face of business convention . |