Example sentences of "[pron] make were " in BNC.
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| 1 | I listened to this tale of woe and as I dug with my tiny spade , wondered what I might find , an arm or perhaps a leg , but the only discoveries that I made were small pieces of coal washed up on the beach . |
| 2 | ( With a little re-working I even found the sweaters I made were nice enough to give as Christmas presents ! ) |
| 3 | I was never popular and I had few friends , but such friendships as I made were mostly lasting . |
| 4 | The references that I made were not to Labour party documents but to papers published by the chambers of commerce . |
| 5 | In a public statement Bradley , who was liable to fines for failing to report major investments , said : " The errors I made were not deliberate . |
| 6 | Among the points she made were the need for care of children , the importance of supporting the NCH , which was doing such a wonderful job for children in need ; and the necessity of seeking out the fathers who abandon their children and making them pay maintenance . |
| 7 | The recordings you made were mainly smaller-scale pieces . |
| 8 | Ironically , some of the breakthroughs we made were with others from the UK market . |
| 9 | The first advances she herself made were to Sylvia , Sue 's four-year-old daughter . |
| 10 | The first membranes they made were far too thin and would not survive transfer into air , let alone freeze-drying . |
| 11 | On average they had only five or six peasant households at their disposal , and since they lacked the capital , the expertise , and the time to raise peasant productivity , the exactions they made were onerous . |
| 12 | It is worth noting that although the children produced passages which facilitated greater learning , the changes which they made were not necessarily ones which would be picked up by a readability formula . |
| 13 | But perhaps the most crucial changes they made were to what Gordon referred to as the " macrostructure signalling " within the passage . |
| 14 | Such concessions as they made were mere delaying tactics . |
| 15 | Yes , there have been some very vigorous objections made by local residents , and that is particularly why the application that preceded this one was refused planning permission because er the objections they made were considered to be well founded by the Planning Committee and supported many of their views . |
| 16 | The eloquent points he made were irrefutable . |
| 17 | But the points he made were chiefly concerned with moral questions affecting the status of divorce , on which he had strong views : whereas I had been occupied more with the Baldwin government and its apparent wish to stifle certain political views , especially concerning unemployment , to which the King had given expression . |
| 18 | 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 . |