Example sentences of "[verb] a fortune [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thereafter Sutton was overshadowed by his ambitious , avaricious , and energetic second son , who was to amass a fortune by publicizing and exploiting the Suttonian method of inoculation . |
| 2 | Virani has made a fortune from acting as middle-man , between the English property tycoon and the Asian shopkeeper . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've made a fortune by combining your talent for yacht design with a keen business brain . |
| 4 | Do n't spend a fortune on entertaining this evening , do it all at home . |
| 5 | I do n't think anyone will make a fortune by patenting them as a method of space travel , but they have become a very exciting area of research . |
| 6 | My master finally realized that he could make a fortune by showing me to people all over the country . |
| 7 | If you knew which horse was going to win the Grand National , you could make a fortune by betting on it . |
| 8 | Mr Soros made a fortune by selling sterling short before it left the ERM last September , and bought gold early in its recent rally . |
| 9 | ‘ I lost a fortune by closing the place down , but there was no way I wanted to carry on the business . ’ |
| 10 | Well they are spending a fortune on hounding Paul . |
| 11 | Curtis said that Germany is currently spending a fortune on developing the telecommunications infrastructure in the east . |
| 12 | Denis Healey once saved a fortune by rubbing out plans for an imaginary airport in the Thames estuary . |
| 13 | She claimed photographers who took pictures of her as she walked the streets or appeared at public events were then making a fortune by selling their shots to companies ready to churn out posters , T-shirts and magazines by the million . |
| 14 | There is a myth that ribbon cables are difficult to make and you have to spend a fortune on getting cables specially made . |
| 15 | TWO computer game-crazy brothers are on course to make a fortune after becoming Britain 's youngest national magazine editors . |
| 16 | We spend a fortune on giving our cats and dogs the good life . |