Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] have made " in BNC.

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1 I took the best I could , and this is how I 've made use of them . ’
2 As he poured the tea , Peter wondered if she 'd told James about how she 'd made a fool of him ; perhaps they had laughed at him together .
3 Er I think in this context strength to strength is talking about market share , erm Frank er was saying how we 've made considerable gains in relation to the opposition and er such an extent that in fact er it had to join up with the er er er with the other financial newspaper , but Frank would you , would you like to add ?
4 Then , like a shoal of fish moving within a net , Rose and the girls started to clear the table , to brush away crumbs , to wash , to dry , to return each thing to its own place , all done with a muted energy ; whispers , jokes , little scolding asides — ‘ No , that goes in the other place ’ or reminisce how they had made the same mistake before in order to soften any harshness in the scold , bending low in apologetic laughter .
5 How he 'd made their evening for them . ’
6 The New York Times demonstrated how he had made little impact on the movie world , until that point in time , with the observation that the lawyer Hanson was ‘ … played by Jack Nicholson whose sharp , regular features may be vaguely familiar to kids who go and watch drive-in movies . ’
7 Sometimes he would revert to a previous journey to a particular spot and described his personal experiences of several years before as in Vol I , pp. 111–113 when he describes how he had made sketches for plate Nos. 46 , 47 and 49 of Sixty Large Etchings .
8 How he had made him .
9 It was Fleury who , remembering how he had made a visor for his smoking cap , found the solution by whipping his Bible out of his shirt and tearing the boards off .
10 Only a sharp expression in the eyes suggested how he had made his way in the do-or-die world of modern publishing , where niceness gets you nowhere .
11 Having decided to show all the four seasons in one picture ( as opposed to other occasions when I have made them as a matching set of four separate pictures ) , I had to find a mount that would blend well with all the seasons and colours , so chose an earthy brown .
12 ‘ Mary , dear , one night when I have made a better meal than I did tonight , I plan to go a little berserk , too , in order to have your solace . ’
13 That was where I had made my bed , back in the mid-sixties .
14 Not through choice , not by a long way , but it was where I 'd made my destiny , even if as an alien .
15 " No , my dear , you are just as tired as I am , and I shall rest presently in the dressing-room where I have made up a bed for myself .
16 ‘ I guess that 's why I 've made the choices I 've made , Mandy .
17 reasons why I 've made little use of it .
18 I have , I 've been asked a lot in the last twenty odd years and it 's only just recently that I 've seriously considered it , which is why I 've made this new album , Midnight Postcards .
19 Madame interrupted with a seven-minute lecture summarising the economics of the real Marguerite Gautier 's career , explaining exactly how and why she had made her way through the Paris of the 1840s with such skill and courage …
20 She was still not sure why she had made this arrangement .
21 She laid her coat across a table then stood , not knowing what to do , wondering irritably why she had made such a fuss about coming …
22 I thought over her remark and why she had made it .
23 She did n't see him for a few days after that , and had time to wonder why she had made it all up .
24 That was when she had made a fool of herself .
25 Maria shook her head , still trying to reassemble the thoughts she had lost hold of when she had made her discovery in the lift .
26 Let me know when you 've made your arrangements . ’
27 But that 's where you 've made your big mistake , Eleanor . ’
28 A greater problem arises at the stage where you have made the article to order and it 's not quite right .
29 Her children have disappointed and saddened her to the point where she has made the decision to rule them out of future considerations surrounding the throne .
30 She reappeared , according to this , in Geneva , where she has made contact with Dimitri Volkov and became his mistress .
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