Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [conj] made " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daisy was still giggling when she got home to Snow Cottage and made the mistake at lunch of telling Perdita that Ricky had read the lesson . |
| 2 | But it was actually hearing Duane Allman that made me want to go for a powerful kind of electric sound . |
| 3 | It was a Frankie Howerd interview that made me realise I do not even want one . |
| 4 | Never once did we stop even in Templecombe village but made our way through the sleepy hamlet , the houses on either side all boarded up , the only sign of life being columns of smoke and the occasional villager foraging on the outskirts for fire-wood . |
| 5 | Burglars entered a house in Harrison Terrace , Darlington , on Saturday evening and made off with a man 's gold watch valued at £100 and two bottles of whisky . |
| 6 | England duly subsided a second time , the honours going to Downton who was promoted to open in place of Andy Lloyd and made a solid 56 , but wickets fell steadily and 235 all out meant that the victory margin was an innings and 180 runs . |
| 7 | Magistrates fined Levy £200 for the assault on Miss Batey but made no order of compensation for her injuries . |
| 8 | John Hampden 's Regiment of Foot guarded the inaugural meeting of the Hampden Society and made sure everyone paid their initial £5 subscription . |
| 9 | PARIS — The French Army , fatigued by khaki , is to get a new ‘ modular ’ uniform designed by Pierre Balmain and made up in a grey-blue colour known as Terre de France . |
| 10 | Of course , having always possessed an interest in astrology , she knew that it was her Arien opposition that made her react so whenever she was under threat . |
| 11 | One possible explanation for China 's changed attitude is that previous protests only gave the Dalai publicity and made it look silly . |
| 12 | The British sent troops to defend the Abadan refinery and made a secret deal with the Russians whereby at the end of the war the Russians would have control of Istanbul and the Dardanelles , and Iran would be divided between them , the Russians in the North , the British in the South , and the British influential in the " neutral " zone , where the oil was to be founded . |
| 13 | He called Whittaker to his office the following Monday morning and made him chief trainer , waving aside protests of inexperience and of indignation at Hardy 's sacking . |
| 14 | With Ernest Morgan that made five and we were fortunate to be able to persuade a young Japanese student , on holiday from U.B.C. , to join our party as cook and housekeeper . |
| 15 | But it was Gerry Conlon 's account of being interrogated after the Guildford bombings that made the scalp crawl . |
| 16 | Cleanliness and neatness are always the keynotes in such descriptions , whether in the country or the town , a point implied by Mrs Gaskell but made by Dickens quite explicitly . |
| 17 | When she encounters a mess , like the ridiculous raid on the Moncada barracks that made Mr Castro 's revolutionary reputation , she does not try to impose sense where there was none . |
| 18 | Girke 's surprising companion will be the architectural photographer Pedro Guerrero , now in his seventies , who in the 1940s photographed Taliesin in its early stages for Frank Lloyd Wright and made several portraits of Wright himself . |
| 19 | I was down for Jo Ro but made a last-minute escape . |
| 20 | He next went to Paris and was persuaded by Bernard de Jussieu to visit London , where he met Sir Hans Sloane and Philip Miller and made a number of drawings in the Physic Garden before proceeding to Holland in 1736 . |
| 21 | But the Cotswold valley that made the property so attractive will soon be the route of a new bypass . |
| 22 | A little farther on he cut across the strip of parched grass known as the Villa Comunale which separated Via Caracciolo from the long parallel sweep of the Riviera di Chiaia and made his way up the hill again , away from the bay . |
| 23 | What I read there was intriguing : violinist , pianist and composer , born 1899 in Moscow , died in a car accident in Stuttgart in 1974 ; first piano lessons from her mother , a pupil of Anton ( and , it turns out , Nicolas ) Rubinstein ; studied both piano and violin at the Paris Conservatoire and made her concert début in Berlin playing Beethoven sonatas for each instrument ; violin lessons with Huberman and tours with Edwin Fischer as a duo-pianist ; married the painter Walter Gramatté in 1920 , and in 1934 , five years after Gramatté 's death , the art-critic Ferdinand Eckhardt ; during 1936–42 composition lessons with Max Trapp , finally settling in Winnipeg in 1953 . |
| 24 | Yesterday , as the sun broke through on the peaceful setting of Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh they and others who fought with the International Brigades against General Franco and made the ultimate sacrifice , were remembered . |
| 25 | Her nerve almost failed her when , more than three hours later , they came into the city along Karl Marx Prospekt and made the turn towards Arsenal Street , where number nine waited for her like the transit house to a hundred-year-old hell . |
| 26 | A source who ought to know says that Unix System Laboratories has changed Destiny 's original Mac-like interface and made it look more like Windows : Sounds like a dumb move to us . |
| 27 | The bar of the Skein of Geese was the kind of drinking establishment Harry detested : fiddly little bowls of cashew nuts and olives littering every surface ; an effeminate barman who looked as if he would not know a handpump from a cocktail umbrella ; lighting so subdued a fellow could not see to count his change ; and a tape of Glenn Miller standards that made him positively nostalgic for the reception area 's bastardized Vivaldi . |
| 28 | His cousin Richard inherited thy Glynde property but made his fortune elsewhere , in the church . |
| 29 | But it was not only the work of Vredeman de Vries that made this garden so remarkable . |
| 30 | First , Waddell notched his second try after an incisive break by Little who also converted ; and then it was the right winger Manning who latched on to another break by Murray Wallace and made the score 32-0 . |