Example sentences of "and made " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the first time our national and international network had gathered together in one place and made us all realise just how much the work has grown . ’ |
| 2 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 3 | Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to . |
| 4 | Not killed , not annihilated , but held fast and made to talk . |
| 5 | Mr Venables disagreed and made some claim about tastebuds and their ‘ overstimulation ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Difficult , ’ agreed Henry , ‘ and made more so , I imagine , by the fact that both the Coroner and the Chairman of the Magistrates ’ Bench were there . ’ |
| 7 | In his speech , Charles praised my ‘ sterling contribution ’ to the school and shortly after it Paul came up to me and made the touching suggestion that I should give some classes in the summer term — if I was still free . |
| 8 | Instead , they could have stayed on the side they were flying and made a right , instead of a left circuit , with height to spare . |
| 9 | Jay was now In Love with the impossible Lucy , Dionne went for butch crewcut teenagers , and they hugged each other 's hurt away and made love like some people offer Kleenex and brandy in times of stress . |
| 10 | The light from the window spilled along her cheek and lips , and made a dazzling star in her glass . |
| 11 | They painted Astrid 's house and made love all the time . |
| 12 | The bold spirits stood and made a show until the muskets cut them down or sent them fleeing . |
| 13 | As he watched , a young lad suddenly stooped behind Stewart and made a piggy-back , another lad shouldered him , and over he went , falling heavily while people nearest roared and laughed . |
| 14 | Among many high-level tasks , he drafted an Appeal to the League of Nations on minority rights , and made many approaches to various government authorities through a wide range of memoranda , petitions and similar appeals . |
| 15 | I read and made notes . |
| 16 | At two she called Charles and David , went over their revised efforts and made one or two last-minute amendments . |
| 17 | He shrugged and made for the door . |
| 18 | She found large-eared Tony and made his ears larger . |
| 19 | A rabbit dodged between her feet and made it to the hedgerow . |
| 20 | It ran down between my eyes and made me see everything blood-red , even though seconds before my mind had conjured up a pleasing vision : the English boy 's sister . |
| 21 | Inventing farfetched excuses , she left me trapped in her flat and made no attempt to help me look for work . |
| 22 | Buddeke wrote bits of her speech into a notebook as he examined those around him and made note of the enthusiastic individuals who happened to be standing nearby , describing dress , attitude , or making little sketches . |
| 23 | The integral construction of bodies , new air-sprung bogies , air conditioning , excellent sound and heat insulation , and a high standard of luxury furnishing and decor for both second and first class , and above ali strength to resist compression and buckling forces in an accident to an extent never seen before , brought a new era to BR coach design and made the HSTs deservedly popular . |
| 24 | Its label tells you in French that it is guaranteed unpasteurised and made using malt ‘ d'orge de culture biologique ’ . |
| 25 | Undaunted , he returned a week later and made the first clean ascent . |
| 26 | After all , they 've had their say years ago and made a meal of it : undeclared top-roping , hold chipping , secret rests , etc . |
| 27 | The glass must be thoroughly cleaned and made dust-free . |
| 28 | His argumentation is diminished and made much less coherent through successive drafts of the novel , while the sheer rattle or patter of those smooth large grains which are his discourse gets carefully worked up . |
| 29 | Ryan is representative of that traditional kind of Marxism , variously represented by Trotsky or Lukàcs , that regards the great literature and art of the past as a common human inheritance , which should be wrested from the exploiting classes and made available to the whole of humanity . |
| 30 | Richards made it worryingly clear how far the Church was responsible for enshrining such illiberal attitudes , though to do it credit , the Church also introduced consent to marriage and made rape a crime against the person , rather than property . |