Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [vb past] be make [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Margaret 's house was the same as Maura 's except it had been made into flats . |
| 2 | That last bomb had taken out those houses as if it had come with a great grasping fist and scooped them up and crunched them into rubble as easily as if they 'd been made of matchsticks . |
| 3 | Angelo Heilprin , an American geologist who visited the scene a few weeks later and wrote a book about the tragedy , described ‘ twisted bars of iron , great masses of roof sheeting wrapped like cloth about posts upon which they had been flung , and iron girders looped and festooned as if they had been made of rope ’ . |
| 4 | Critics also argue that , because statements made under the lobby rules mean that they can not be directly attributed to Mr Ingham , his colleagues or Government Ministers , they are less credible than if they had been made on the record . |
| 5 | Yet they were now learning to kiss as if they had been made for one another , she thought in panic . |
| 6 | The answer is probably that workers come a lot cheaper in China , but the money they have saved that way could surely have been doubled in extra sales — not to mention saving on shipping costs — if they had been made in a British factory . |
| 7 | The drawing-room was full of rugs that looked upsettingly as if they had been made from earlier Afghans . |
| 8 | Producer , Lyn Goleby was on a visit to the school to answer questions on the film , which ranged from how much say the author had in shooting the film , to whether ’ The Bridge ’ might have had to have a happier ending if it had been made with American money . |
| 9 | Though the stone was large , the ornate gold band was small , and it fitted as if it had been made for her . |
| 10 | It had all trees on it and looked as if it had been made for picnics . |
| 11 | She realized that she was feeling it too , frozen to the marrow in this bitter East wind which kept whipping her cloak off her shoulders as contemptuously as if it had been made of pocket-handkerchieves instead of tablecloths , her stomach hollow and aching , her head feeling light and aching a little too . |
| 12 | The payment would appear in your 1988 accounts , and in the Government 's accounts for 1988/89 , just as if it had been made in August . |
| 13 | ‘ It is not necessary to consider what would have been the effect of the payment of £20 if it had been made in full satisfaction of the demand against Hunter . |
| 14 | The court in attempting to discover the intention of the parties ignored the signed statement because it had been made after the making of the contract . |
| 15 | The army action was severely criticized by Joseph Kokou Koffigoh , the transitional Prime Minister , who declared that Kpodzro 's decision was invalid since it had been made under duress and had not been subject to a regular vote in the HCR . |
| 16 | The girl , who looked as though she had been made in heaven out of peaches and cream , was wearing a few pieces of string arranged as a bikini , high heels , the goose-pimples , and nothing else . |
| 17 | But in this warm and pleasant climate she was dressed in a long black dress which looked as though it had been made at the time of Heathcliff . |