Example sentences of "him make [art] " in BNC.

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1 We followed Dick back to the airport and watched him make a ‘ grease job ’ of a landing to conclude his solo flight .
2 Walsh added : ‘ I expect James 's ankle to be right but I 'll probably start him from the bench and let him make an explosive entrance .
3 Let him make the first move .
4 His starched collar , sober dark grey tweed suit , and the black bowler hat in the rack above him made no concessions to the seaside .
5 The empty alejacks scattered on the table before him made the coroner look like an angry Bacchus surrounded by votive offerings .
6 Laud , who was Visitor of All Souls College , Oxford , had him made a Fellow there , overruling the objections of the Warden of the College , Gilbert Sheldon , that he was disqualified by being too young and held only a degree from Cambridge .
7 possible that Paul has had a already had a reply from the Destiny people , you know , the ap at my urging Paul joins these people to find himself another girl because I 'm so sick of hearing about Karen who 's treated him made a fool of him totally
8 ‘ And as for the Bulldog , I hear that his wife takes him for walks at night to stop him making a mess .
9 A distressing failure in something which was important to him , athletic ability perhaps , may lead to him making a negative judgment about himself every time he experiences any difficulty in competitive activities in the future .
10 The event was such a success that club members are very much looking forward to him making a return visit .
11 I can imagine him making the statement , but I ca n't imagine that he meant it sufficiently to make it worth printing .
12 She could almost hear him making the effort to be cheerful , as if he was afraid to disappoint her in case she decided not to ring him again .
13 Griffith was never as mature an artist as Dickens and he was the product of the frontier rather than a literary city but he had a social theory of sorts , a gift to embody values in stories , and a mastery of technique which allowed him to make every setting dramatically and socially convincing .
14 Black clouds were rolling up over the forest to his right , which now looked hostile , as though it were waiting for him to make a false move ; to tall perhaps , so that it could advance and swallow him , like a wild animal .
15 This can find expression in ‘ I must get him to make a will before he dies ’ — a basic desire to get things sorted out — and may extend to attempts to resolve family quarrels , an anxiety that the sun should not in this case go down fur ever on wrath .
16 He had been pushed into this bloody situation by the need to attract public sympathy , and yet had been stupid enough to let the manifest idiocy of his questioners drive him to make a most unsympathetic exhibition of himself .
17 A lunch break would give him his chance , forcing him to make a decision whether or not to delay his own sustenance in order to overtake us as we crammed fruit cake into our faces .
18 At twenty-two , he was already recognized within the ballet world as the most gifted dance creator of his generation , and George Balanchine commissioned him to make a work for New York City Ballet .
19 Certainly he never became an outstanding dancer , but as a performer he did have a feeling for movement and character that enabled him to make a theatrical impact in some roles not needing much technique or classical style .
20 You 'll have to do the talking to find out what he wants and lead him to make a purchase .
21 A natural follow-up would be for him to make a model van , perhaps like one of his dad 's .
22 But it is also important to remember that the object of the 1790 visit was really Switzerland , traditionally the land of liberty ; Wordsworth never retracted his belief in the ideals of Switzerland , which helps to explain why , when France threatened Swiss independence in the late 1790s , it was necessary for him to make a decisive choice .
23 Speaking to people nicely may well have been William Charles 's greatest worldly asset , one which would enable him to make a living in the great metropolis , for all his lack of more specific skills .
24 In Parliament two days later , Paisely asked James Prior , leader of the House of Commons , to permit him to make a statement to the House on the matter .
25 They asked him to make a speech entitled : ‘ What kind of paper and how we 're going to sell 1.5 million . ’
26 Above all , in 1072 he had publicly defeated the archbishop of York , and obliged him to make a profession of obedience to Canterbury .
27 There is no need to say more here about Anselm 's primatial activity : he certainly thought that the evidence was sufficiently strong for him to make a most uncompromising claim to primatial authority over the whole of the British Isles , and it is quite clear that he did not think that the Canterbury claim to this position rested on a series of specific grants by popes after Gregory the Great .
28 Similarly circumspect , George Stephen granted Clarkson priority in time but underlined how Wilberforce 's prominence enabled him to make a public issue of the slave trade in a way Clarkson could never have done .
29 In one instance , it was believed in the family that one sister had visited their father during his final illness and had persuaded him to make a new will in her favour , directing his hand as he signed it .
30 I can see that the third party would have a cogent argument that even if he were liable to compensate the plaintiffs in respect of these matters it would not be just and equitable to require him to make a contribution to the third defendant 's liability .
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