Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] made a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rarely made a comment on what someone was wearing ; we would sit in a park or café or at home discussing image , beauty , fashion and advertising , and skirt around the more obvious , immediate issues of how we both looked , how we were dressed . |
| 2 | One thing you should remember : when he says , ‘ I just made a hole in one , ’ do n't say , ‘ I did n't see you . |
| 3 | ‘ Do I get the impression I just made a boo-boo ? ’ |
| 4 | I already made a note of that actually but |
| 5 | I hardly made a bean from him in the last five . |
| 6 | I also made a documentary about the U-boat campaign which in two world wars had nearly brought us to our knees ; and I have always regretted that after the last war , when we sank so many of them in deep water , we did not keep one as a trophy and bring it up the Thames into the heart of London : it would have been a perennial attraction for every schoolboy in the country . |
| 7 | I also made a promise to myself that when I got picked again for a major championship I would progress beyond the first round . |
| 8 | And I also made a couple of erm copper ashtrays and and and beat them . |
| 9 | I also made a number of foreign trips . |
| 10 | When I turned up at the theatre and Terry and I got changed next to each other , I frequently made a point of saying to him , ‘ Well , Terry , has the call come yet ? |
| 11 | Using the Amiga Five Hundred okay , er stripped it down , I sampled it and I actually made a song , a complete song , and it 's finished okay ? |
| 12 | I certainly did , yes , I certainly made a point that you must be careful that , erm , particularly the self-employed , that you do n't exceed the maximum allowable . |
| 13 | I recently made a tour of India which was arranged by ANZ Grindlays Bank to promote CIB qualifications to their staff . |
| 14 | Practice had made perfect : she hardly made a sound . |
| 15 | She hardly made a bump under the sheet , only her small shaven head and long neck were visible . |
| 16 | and she willingly made a gift of it to her mother in sincere , if perhaps slightly exasperated affection . |
| 17 | She also made a plea for children in care saying that ‘ a child already damaged by previous experiences ’ should be cared for ‘ as we would our own children ’ . |
| 18 | She also made a point of keeping in touch with every woman who fostered a baby from the Foundling Hospital as the charity was so dear to her husband 's heart . |
| 19 | For the first time , Susan intuited that if she really made a point of it , she could get out of her Public Service . |
| 20 | She now made a living giving private lessons in English . |
| 21 | ‘ Every ward round she religiously made a note in her little book which wound drains to shorten . |
| 22 | In them , she again described the work she did and the success she had achieved ; she gave details of her height , weight and false hair colour ; she even made a comment or two - as some of the men had in their letters — on her sexual preferences . |
| 23 | She then made a claim of unfair dismissal . |
| 24 | Is n't it time you either made a charge and got it over with , or you damned well got out of here , and Mister Bloody Hamilton with you ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ That old woman did the business , word-perfect , she was perfect , the jury took one look at that little old lady and he was off the hook , she never made a slip . |
| 26 | But perhaps your first mistake was to think that a shop could give you totally impartial advice — their prime concern was probably to make sure you actually made a purchase and from them rather than elsewhere . |
| 27 | She would not go out , though she occasionally made a martyr of herself by pointing out that because of the price of baby-sitting , she could not afford to go out : this was as far as she went towards self-pity . |
| 28 | The thing with Minneapolis was that everyone was bored to tears , so we just made a scene . ’ |
| 29 | I was already friendly with Tate , and Eddie knew him through the shop , so we soon made a threesome and we kept together for nearly fifty years . ’ |
| 30 | When we played this , we usually made a rule that the teams lined up alternating sexes . |