Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb past] make a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was proving to the convenor that I 'd made a mark opposite that deliverance on which to call you . |
| 2 | So , with this weird combination of reluctance and eagerness , I confessed to her that I 'd made a copy of my cock and a cock tracing and that I 'd put them in her in-box late one night and then thought better of it . |
| 3 | I reported last time that I 'd made an approach to Chris . |
| 4 | I wanted to shout after him that I had made a mistake and that I had really understood him very well . |
| 5 | I realized that I had made a mistake : the no boundary condition implied that disorder would in fact continue to increase during the contraction . |
| 6 | And I followed this with a suitably modest smile to indicate without ambiguity that I had made a witticism , since I did not wish Mr Farraday to restrain any spontaneous mirth he felt out of a misplaced respectfulness . |
| 7 | Not surprisingly I have never heard from any of them since , although I felt that I had made a number of new and lasting Russian friendships that night . |
| 8 | Down on the steps , Marie had decided that she had made a mistake . |
| 9 | She was beginning to feel that she had made a mistake , and allowed herself to be exploited . |
| 10 | I was terrifically embarrassed , but Karen did not once so much as glance in my direction , and after a while I began to suspect that she had made a mistake too . |
| 11 | She had never seen her in the morning and she knew instinctively that she had made a mistake in arriving without warning . |
| 12 | A girl lunged over the grid , screaming that she had made a mistake , fingers just missing the disappearing chips . |
| 13 | But Albert was so sure that she had made a Will … |
| 14 | And , although she was rapidly coming to the conclusion that she had made a fool of herself all down the line , she still did n't quite know how . |
| 15 | She never said to whom that fresh statement was made , but it was apparent to the jury that she was saying that she had made a statement contrary to that incriminating one , and she was suggesting that the second statement set out her case as she was putting it in the witness box . |
| 16 | It did not stop her knowing that she had made an idiot of herself and upset Harriet Shakespeare , who had enough trouble without that . |
| 17 | She knew that she had made an impression on Nicky , simply by the way he had looked at her when he and his mother had said goodbye . |
| 18 | As women do , she probably knew that she had made an impression on him on the two or three occasions they had met at Muthaiga . |
| 19 | The experience so thrilled her that she decided to make a career of it , and by the age of 10 she had performed in three Broadway shows . |
| 20 | But he looked so hurt that she tried to make a joke of it , |
| 21 | This was partly because of events that were going on around me : Kathleen building towards her retirement and , as was to become highly significant , Katrina deciding that she wanted to make a move as well . |
| 22 | You were right to break with him if you decided that you had made a mistake in accepting him , but oh , my dear , your uncle Orrin tells me that he dare not inform your father of the dreadful things Havvie is hinting about you for fear of what he might do to Havvie . |
| 23 | It 's unfortunate that yet again the Mercury got it wrong they stated that we had made a decision to close four homes |
| 24 | I think it 's very instructive that er H B F did n't deny that they 'd made a mistake on this number and just talking about old people , er the fact is that eighty five percent of deaths in the county occur to people aged over sixty five . |
| 25 | It was almost as if he felt that they had made a fool of him in 1945 – 46 and was trying to atone for his naiveté . |
| 26 | I HAVE no doubt that the vandals who defaced Bomber Harris 's statue are feeling pretty smug and probably thinking that they had made a point for Dresden . |
| 27 | I do n't get the impression that they tried to make a statement by getting more and more obscure . |
| 28 | His unconventionality , his unorthodoxy and his accent all helped the party to feel that it had made a step forward : " the dawn of the new regime " . |
| 29 | The African colony to which he returned was regarded by the British government as ‘ advanced ’ — in African terms — which meant that it had made a start on the road to self-government ; however , the Colonial Office reckoned that the goal was still distant . |
| 30 | Not that it seemed to make a lot of difference . |