Example sentences of "it made a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was at this point I think Batty came on and it made a f- of a difference . |
| 2 | So far , the ministry has chosen not to explain why it did not act over this matter , to admit that it made a mistake , and to fully compensate all those who have suffered trauma and considerable financial losses as a result of its negligence . |
| 3 | ‘ When we took Lingfield over it was losing £50,000 a year and the year before we sold it to Leisure Investments , it made a profit of £690,000 , ’ Muddle junior says . |
| 4 | After an investment of £23½m over five years in its American business , it made a profit last year . |
| 5 | SOMERSET County Cricket Club yesterday announced it made a profit of £82,612 during the last year , although chief executive Peter Anderson warned that the county is still in debt . |
| 6 | It made a profit of $247m at the operating level , but did only $500m of business with the outside world , lagging far behind the leaders in the OEM disk business . |
| 7 | ‘ Powick still had its reputation for cheapness and it made a profit . ’ |
| 8 | It made a noise . ’ |
| 9 | It made a noise like this : ‘ Cheep-cheep ! ’ |
| 10 | Marie 's parents had strong religious views that made her feel very guilty about having sex in their home when she and her husband had to live there for a while : " We did it on the bedroom floor on the wedding night because I would n't use the bed , in case it made a noise . |
| 11 | It made a long-drawn-out noise which sounded like a high-pitched foghorn and backed away , raising its hands to its mouth . |
| 12 | IT MADE A CHANGE TO SEE THE MOTOR industry doing something original at the NEC show — admitting it never does anything original . |
| 13 | Ruth never felt that she was good at it , but it made a change , and she enjoyed listening to her mistress 's accounts of her days . |
| 14 | Still it made a change from the straightforward garments . |
| 15 | The 5ft 9in model and actress with a 38-23-36 figure said it made a change for women to be seen as tough and strong . |
| 16 | It made a change . |
| 17 | I suppose it made a change from Stilton . |
| 18 | And it made a change to be told before and not after the job that a cow was a kicker . |
| 19 | It made a change from saying ‘ yes ’ . |
| 20 | It made a change from Georg and his old van . |
| 21 | It made a fortune and spawned an almost decade-long string of Hollywood imitations , the ‘ blacksploitation ’ films , built around the exploits of virile leading men . |
| 22 | At the peak it made a fortune — not from building houses or office blocks but from land inflation . |
| 23 | And then er the the the lace trade he he worked on , when women wore high collars , boned high collars and he made the little narrow edging lace about like that and it was goffered so it made a frill round the face . |
| 24 | Held by Jacques Tajan it made a total of FFr21.450 million ( £2.2 million ; $3.8 million ) and most prices were well above high estimates . |
| 25 | It made a dart for the door as he came in , but he was too quick for it . |
| 26 | In fact , it never occurred to me that it made a difference until I was in a trial and a scout said ‘ We 're quite interested in the coloured lad ’ and that was the first time I realized they thought of me as anything other than my name . |
| 27 | Of course it made a difference . |
| 28 | ‘ We did n't give it that name , but all the same it made a difference . |
| 29 | That 's where it made a difference but I was sticking in all the blinking week I 'll save that till he gets home but apart from |
| 30 | Nothing but the best for Lucy , and that meant a month of sober evenings honing every flip phrase so that it made a point . |