Example sentences of "the [noun] it made " in BNC.
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| 1 | She lay for a few moments watching the patterns it made on the ceiling . |
| 2 | You can imagine the story it made . ’ |
| 3 | It was not a big watch but the noise it made was much bigger than you would have expected . |
| 4 | The noise it made caused her heart to leap into her throat , and it certainly startled the intruder . |
| 5 | wrong with the car — the noise it made |
| 6 | The heater of the van they drove in was hardly worth the noise it made , and no coffee was available . |
| 7 | She liked the noise it made . |
| 8 | But the demands it made upon my timid psyche gave it a quality and significance its components : loose rock , repetitive moves and so forth , would n't immediately suggest . |
| 9 | Perhaps under the circumstances it made sense to remain in the one place . |
| 10 | In the twilight the water , gushing and frothing , looked a long way down but the sound it made felt only a few feet below . |
| 11 | The sound it made rustling outside in the trees made him feel comfortable and protected . |
| 12 | He must have liked the sound it made because he gave it another couple for luck ; my courage rising , too , I gave it two more . |
| 13 | I can still remember the sound it made , a lovely special sound , as light and thin as the clothes were thick and heavy . |
| 14 | Michael Russell , the party 's vice-convener for publicity , accused Labour of selling out on all the promises it made to Scottish voters at the last election . |
| 15 | Following news that it was working on an open systems ‘ business specification ’ for commercial users and organisations ( UX No 373 ) , the X/Open Group Co Ltd is at last preparing make good some of the promises it made last year about giving users a bigger say in its affairs . |
| 16 | The difference it made was internal . |
| 17 | He 'd auctioned his wine cellar and chuckled at the £28,000 it made . |
| 18 | In one way , of course , Nick had been quite right when he had said that whatever the truth it made no difference . |
| 19 | When I caught all the balls it made the game a lot more fun for both of us . |
| 20 | In the event it made no difference : his property was confiscated under the Act of Attainder . |
| 21 | So do we understand from that that in the event it made only a few seconds difference , if at all ? |
| 22 | The rabbit might as well have been stuffed for all the movement it made , and I could see that it definitely was staring right at me , its little eyes not blinking , its tiny nose not sniffing , its ears untwitched . |
| 23 | There is no doubt that many of its customers have used loans in cases where they would previously have use ( more costly ) HP a 1977 survey showed that 59 per cent of the loans it made were for motor vehicle purchase . |
| 24 | At the peak it made a fortune — not from building houses or office blocks but from land inflation . |
| 25 | I turn now to consider the arguments advanced on behalf of Woolwich in support of its right to recover the payments it made as money had and received or as having been made under duress , two grounds which it was accepted shaded into one another . |
| 26 | Where it licked the Wizards ' Quarter it burned blue and green and was even laced with strange sparks of the eighth colour , octarine ; where its outriders found their way into the vats and oil stores all along Merchant Street it progressed in a series of blazing fountains and explosions ; in the streets of the perfume blenders it burned with a sweetness ; where it touched bundles of rare and dry herbs in the storerooms of the drugmasters it made men go mad and talk to God . |
| 27 | Among the points it made was that the Revival was ‘ simply the fruit of dilettante and antiquarian study ’ , and ‘ if thirteenth century architecture was so perfectly adapted to the circumstances of the day ’ , it can not therefore be so for the nineteenth . |
| 28 | The £917m it made in 1991 was just 3pc down on the previous year 's £945m . |
| 29 | I hated the way it made me feel , someone the sight of whom could contaminate , endanger a baby . |
| 30 | She just ignored Alain 's voice and ran up the stairs to her room , ignoring the way it made her dizzy . |