Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] i made a " in BNC.
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1 | It is not quite eight years since I made a beginning ; so that my plants must be considered as young ones . |
2 | Ronald Duncan , whom I came to know about this time ( our first meeting took place when I made a bicycle tour of Cornwall in the summer of 1947 ) , spoke of having received a telegram from Eliot cancelling an engagement and saying that he had to ‘ bury a woman ’ . |
3 | It 's going to cost you under thirty eight pounds , so I 've got a little bit of wei , leeway if I made a few mistakes . |
4 | On the one occasion when I made a direct appeal to her , in connection with the battle against the closed shop for journalists which I describe later , her response was gratifyingly supportive and it was no fault of hers that she was unable to persuade Lord Hailsham to a course of action that might well have altered journalistic history . |
5 | Mum meant it to be Israel , after her rabbinical father so I made a compromise later by labelling myself Israel Jack ) . |
6 | Seeing there are three of you , it would make sense if I made a fourth and helped to leg . ’ |
7 | And they went back to their chuckling 's and grinnings while I made a scowling withdrawal . |