having it made

Example Sentences

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I surmise, from her having it made permanent in ink, that people have, perhaps, underestimated her in the past.

From The Guardian • Apr. 28, 2019

After having impulsively decided to buy it, I then had to undergo the lengthy and extremely uncomfortable—not to say costly—process of having it made.

From Slate • Jun. 27, 2016

After patenting the wrench in 2005, Mr. Brown formed a company, LoggerHead Tools, to bring it to market, making a point of having it made in the United States.

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2012

The folio manuscript by George Vavasour was evidently a fair copy of the revised "quarto," and Tresham's reason for having it made.

From The Identification of the Writer of the Anonymous Letter to Lord Monteagle in 1605 by Morgan, George Blacker

I could not select a single spot in the neighborhood, favorable to quiet study, without having it made desolate or turned into a thoroughfare.

From In Nesting Time by Miller, Olive Thorne