Example sentences of "[pron] had made a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought within myself , ‘ With what eyes these poets see nature ! ’ and ever after , when I saw the sun-set stream upon the objects facing it , conceived I had made a discovery , or thanked Mr Wordsworth for having made one for me ! |
| 2 | I wanted to shout after him that I had made a mistake and that I had really understood him very well . |
| 3 | But I had made a mistake and not put the fellow 's name and address in my book . |
| 4 | ‘ But over a couple of months of pilot programmes , I simply felt I had made a mistake by leaving . |
| 5 | ‘ The full weight of the Children 's Department came down on us for that scene and , in retrospect , I realised I had made a mistake letting that go through . |
| 6 | I realized I had made a mistake . |
| 7 | I realized that I had made a mistake : the no boundary condition implied that disorder would in fact continue to increase during the contraction . |
| 8 | I had made a flask of tea and some sandwiches but had run out of milk at home , so I brought a stoppered bottle along planning to buy some milk in Keld . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Prior to writing the script , I had made a list of the cast , designated local actors for the various roles and had them called for the 2pm ‘ woodshed ’ run-through . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I had made a start in Burmese at the School of Oriental Languages in London , going up from Stepney for a weekly lesson , so I could read haltingly and use a score or more greetings and questions , which deceived the kindly village people into thinking that I knew more than I did , with the result that an opening sentence of mine would elicit a whole string of Burmese from which I would only pick up a word or two . |
| 13 | It was a cool night and someone had made a bonfire on the sand . |
| 14 | I knew what I was going out to and I was only concerned that there might be some hitch or delay , that I might get there and find that someone had made a mistake and I was n't due out for another six months — such was my anxiety to be released . |
| 15 | In among the monochrome massacre , someone had made a mistake ; there were brightly coloured Doris Day and James Garner in Move Over Darling . |
| 16 | Someone had made a pronouncement on it already . |
| 17 | Maximilian laughed as if someone had made a joke . |
| 18 | Somebody had made a speech . |
| 19 | In Asturias strike action began in late December 1991 in all the mines owned by the state company Hunosa ( the biggest employer in the region , which had made a loss of 65,000 million ptas — US$674 million — in 1991 ) in protest at a restructuring plan which would involve the loss of 6,000 jobs by the end of 1993 at a saving of only 15,000 million ptas . |
| 20 | She had made a change in her life , broken away from her mother . |
| 21 | In the process she had made a lightning circumnavigation of the British Isles and was now steaming hard down the west coast while we returned by the eastern route . |
| 22 | Private Eye is appealing against the record £600,000 damages paid to Mrs Sutcliffe after a seven-day trial last May , in which she alleged the magazine had libelled her by claiming in its ‘ Street of Shame ’ column that she had made a £250,000 deal with the Daily Mail for her story after a night of ‘ carousing ’ with the paper 's journalists in a hotel . |
| 23 | She had made a fool of him and he would n't let that go . |
| 24 | That was when she had made a fool of herself . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She had made a fool of herself . |
| 27 | Between them she had made a decision based only on panic and no common sense . |
| 28 | Down on the steps , Marie had decided that she had made a mistake . |
| 29 | She was beginning to feel that she had made a mistake , and allowed herself to be exploited . |
| 30 | Ah , Elisa said , yes , of course , she had made a mistake . |