Example sentences of "they had made " in BNC.
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| 1 | But between them , he told himself , they had made this nest comfortable . |
| 2 | They had made sure of the few proprietors between there and Dunkeld ; the Duke of Atholl 's authority was weaker here ; tomorrow would be the hard day when they made a drive up to Moulin and Faskally : perhaps they should go and terrify them now while darkness made them lonely ? |
| 3 | General Motors of America believed they had made a major breakthrough into the British market in 1985 when they persuaded Foster Yeoman to buy four specially constructed 3,300hp locomotives to haul heavy stone traffic from their Merehead quarry to locations in the South East . |
| 4 | They had made exaggerated claims about their membership size , among other shortcomings , the NEC said . |
| 5 | Until yesterday morning , the Ministry had not given the nuns any information on the tests they had made or what these had revealed . |
| 6 | Then , like a shoal of fish moving within a net , Rose and the girls started to clear the table , to brush away crumbs , to wash , to dry , to return each thing to its own place , all done with a muted energy ; whispers , jokes , little scolding asides — ‘ No , that goes in the other place ’ or reminisce how they had made the same mistake before in order to soften any harshness in the scold , bending low in apologetic laughter . |
| 7 | Already the tanks ahead were in action and it seemed as though they had made contact with , and destroyed the majority of the enemy flank guard . |
| 8 | A delegation of five Conservative MPs yesterday met the Prime Minister and left Downing Street convinced they had made ‘ enormous progress ’ in persuading Mrs Thatcher to make a one-off ex-gratia payment to the victims . |
| 9 | ‘ I want to know what tax concessions the Government believed they had made to British Aerospace . |
| 10 | McChrystal was one of the two young musicians , just leaving music college in 1988 , whom I and two other judges chose earlier this year as the latest Sutton Recording Prizewinners on the basis of tape recordings they had made . |
| 11 | People came to read their poetry , they distributed their art work , they hung paintings and pictures on the walls , and they came along with things they had made , joke jewellery and candles and posters , selling them in the conservatory . |
| 12 | In 1989 they had made $1.2 billion on $59.5 billion of revenues . |
| 13 | But diversifying companies found it much harder to exploit economies of scale and scope in these new fields — usually , says Mr Chandler , because they failed to make the same kind of first-mover investments they had made in their primary businesses . |
| 14 | Returning Edward the proofs of his book , Helen commented : ‘ This has indeed been a fair spring for us , though they had made it a winter . |
| 15 | Then , more naturally , I smiled again , thanked them , admired the present — asking if they had made the toffee themselves — and wished them , too , a very happy Christmas . |
| 16 | For what a poor showing they had made , the four of them , that afternoon ! |
| 17 | At this point , the Orange leadership began to retreat , suggesting that they had made their point with the church parade and calling on the Portadown loyalists not to break the law . |
| 18 | They had made the more usually British mistake of asking ‘ What shall we do ? ’ rather than the standard American approach of ‘ What has to be done to achieve our objectives ? ’ |
| 19 | Even when he was very successful as a young man they had made jokes about his music . |
| 20 | People from other lineages might not know of these particular marriages , but they had similar marriages of their own , similar reminders in their own genealogies that they had made a special and enduring peace with other lineages . |
| 21 | When the Bohemians realised the mistake they had made in electing Ferdinand , they deposed him and elected in his place the Palatine Elector , Frederick V , a weak if romantic figure . |
| 22 | The exquisite creation they had made of their own lives blinded them to the aspirations of less fortunate men and women . |
| 23 | Ipswich re-emerged five minutes after the end as if they had made certain of promotion . |
| 24 | Conner 's crew were incensed because they thought they had made the perfect forcing manoeuvre . |
| 25 | Evidence that they had made a sound choice came with the £36 bill for the 6,000 mile service . |
| 26 | Pushing it towards the door they could hardly contain their excitement until Endill stopped in his tracks , realising they had made a terrible mistake . |
| 27 | Their store rooms were crammed with piles of objects , from furniture to fencing , and some of the corridors were blocked with the mounds of things they had made over the years . |
| 28 | The police soon traced the couple 's movements and found they had made a number of telephone calls to Paris . |
| 29 | They had made him both look and feel foolish , and that was infuriating . |
| 30 | He explained that they had made plans for the evening and politely invited Modigliani to join them . |