Example sentences of "make [pron] name in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Easy Rider made its name in the middle of this melée and specifically at a time when the whole counter-culture movement had taken on an explosive , manic air . |
| 2 | The civil servant on Plowden 's team in charge of the power station construction programme was F. W. ( ‘ Bomber ’ ) Smith , who had made his name in the War by successfully stepping up aircraft production in Beaverbrook 's celebrated Ministry . |
| 3 | It co-stars Hugh Grant , 31 , who made his name in the film of E M Forster 's Maurice . |
| 4 | His earliest stage roles at Barnes and the Everyman in Hampstead in 1926 were in classic Russian plays but in 1928 , at the Little Theatre in London , he first made his name in the type of role which was to become his hallmark : that of the neurotic , greedy , sinister villain in A Man with Red Hair by Hugh Walpole [ q.v . ] . |
| 5 | Mr Bresslaw made his name in the TV comedy , The Army Game . |
| 6 | Just now Christien 's thoughts are more preoccupied with making his name in The Blackheath Poisonings . |