Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] have made a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told Michael what he wanted to hear , pretty much , without actually promising anything , because I could tell he was going to make it easy for me He was falling asleep on my shoulder When he did , I slipped out from under him , picked up his sexy uniform , which did n't seem quite so sexy any more , and took his glider key off the chain Then I got dressed quick , holding the key in my teeth , and then I went over to the kite , but I must have made a noise ; because Michael woke up I looked back and saw him putting both feet in one leg of his trousers , calling my name , trying to back out of it |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm sorry , sir , I must have made a mistake . ’ |
| 3 | I should have made a point of following up his sickness , thought Cadfael , touched , but I thought he , of all people , would make good sure he got all the treatment he needed . |
| 4 | I should have made a list . |
| 5 | I might have made a mistake to turn down offers when they were there . |
| 6 | When we look when we look upwards in eclipse what you can actually see if if you can imagine that 's a circular quite like an if I was really together I could have made a circular |
| 7 | ‘ Well , I could have made a mistake . ’ |
| 8 | . I could have made a job |
| 9 | They looked about ten , with long hair , both so brown and handsome I could have hugged them ; if I were a woman I would have made a date with them for ten years ' time . |
| 10 | And Tim ever since has been going , ‘ If only I could be a cockney , Dennis , I would have made a fortune like you . ’ |
| 11 | As a boy Waugh had longed to go to Eton , which might have made a radical of him and where he might have met Orwell , and did not ; his first aristocratic wife left him after a year , and for an Etonian ; and his sojourns in a great Elizabethan house in Worcestershire as a young man , the guest of a friend , allowed him to glimpse a world of moats , battlements and rolling parkland from which in spirit he never awoke . |
| 12 | Most outstanding orders were completed , but two Extra Large Bloomers were cancelled , which would have made a total of five of that class . |
| 13 | ‘ I think you may have made a mistake . |
| 14 | She may have made a mess of her life ; she may have faced problems beyond your comprehension . |
| 15 | ‘ You must have made a mistake . |
| 16 | But she i if they say she 's made a payment , she must have made a payment . |
| 17 | He , too , checked with the police and rang back to confirm that Derek had not been arrested and that he felt she must have made a mistake . |
| 18 | She waited a moment for the signal to appear somewhere on the grid , then leaned forward to key the search sequence again , thinking she must have made a mistake . |
| 19 | She must have made a mistake herself . |
| 20 | Really to protect members of the management team who might have made a decision . |
| 21 | ‘ Ca n't you admit you might have made a mistake ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Do n't tell me you 've suddenly discovered that you might have made a mistake about me ? |
| 23 | If she had wanted to stay she 'd have made a song and dance , but it was better to move . |
| 24 | If she 'd jumped into the water she 'd have made a splash . ’ |
| 25 | Normally , she 'd have made a fuss about those things , but today it did n't seem to matter somehow . |
| 26 | If you 'd have made a story up that 's it something else , I wo I would n't have known it 's running . |
| 27 | For example , if you had n't spent so much on a ‘ super duper ’ multi-flange guitar pedal , you could have made a profit by having more band T-shirts on sale at your gigs . |
| 28 | Using leftovers and store cupboard items , you will have made a meal that many people pay several pounds for in restaurants . |
| 29 | We may have made a mess of most of them , including parliamentary democracy , but the cricket culture we have successfully assimilated and , as Graham Gooch may tell you , perfected . |
| 30 | But if we do that at the expense of other vital interests … we will have made a mistake . ’ |