Example sentences of "he [verb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made Daguerreotypes in Regent Street and Trafalgar Square . |
| 2 | ‘ He made Sheridan come , too . ’ |
| 3 | In his Life he made William X of Aquitaine protest against Louis 's meddling in the Auvergne , with the words : ‘ If the count of Auvergne has committed any fault , it is my duty to present him at your court on your order , because he holds the Auvergne of me as I hold it of you . ’ |
| 4 | On ministerial appointments for instance , while he made MacDonald change his intentions in a number of cases , he did not do so without occasional complaint front the Prime Minister , and continuing give and take between the two leaders . |
| 5 | He made Bumface grovel … . |
| 6 | The scheme took graduates through all departments in the company , and he worked as an assistant in the garde manger at the Cafe Royal , where he met fellow trainee , Rocco Forte ; the Hunting Lodge Restaurant in Regent Street ; Jule 's Bar in Jermyn Street ; and the buying department at Walnut Tree Walk , where he made Aunt Mary 's Apple Pies and jam doughnuts . |
| 7 | He made Dinah recite , time and again , the lines ; modulate her voice differently , play on it , revise her gestures , go back to the beginning . |
| 8 | It was the Quaker ironmaster Abraham Darby ( q.v. ) who first used this method successfully here in 1709 , and in so doing , he made Coalbrookdale the cradle of the Industrial Revolution and Shropshire — for a time — the centre of the industrial world , with ideal coal deposits at hand to give the area a head start in the production of pig-iron . |
| 9 | On shower day he made Frank strip off all his clothes before going to the bathroom . |
| 10 | do you know David , he , he made Mrs Thatcher resign . |
| 11 | When Ashton staged his version of the ballet he made Cinderella 's leitmotif into a major factor fur the development of the plot by creating a matching dance leitmotif . |
| 12 | He made Hodkinson step back in the second with a fierce right to the body . |
| 13 | He made Joynson-Hicks ( good on penal reform but illiberal on all else ) Home Secretary , and thus firmly launched the Home Office , which had been different in the days of Harcourt , Asquith and Churchill , upon a course of dour obscurantism from which it took three or four decades to recover . |
| 14 | He had the figure of a rugby international and he made Wexford , who was just on six feet , feel short . |
| 15 | He made Willie cocoa and left him with Sammy to look at the ‘ straw roofs ’ while he went upstairs to put up more blackouts . |
| 16 | He was curious to see the minister , although he made Willie Hamilton come with him up to the gallery , so that he himself would not be noted by the dragon of a wife or her daughter . |
| 17 | Rose said softly , ‘ I think he made Steve an accomplice . ’ |
| 18 | He made Hugh McNab , by comparison , an angelic figure . |
| 19 | Jeremy was swiftly ejected from his first job , at the Rotherham Advertiser and for a time he made Paddington Bears for a living . |
| 20 | He made Sherlock Holmes look amateurish ! |
| 21 | ‘ He made Joe jump — and me too ! |
| 22 | At Sunderland he made Roker Park roar … |
| 23 | When Sir John Anderson ( later first Viscount Waverley , q.v. ) , the former head of the Home Office , was put in charge of a hastily improvised London civil-defence organization during the Munich crisis , he appointed Scott as his chief staff officer ; and when Anderson became minister for civil defence , he made Scott responsible for the urgent task of accelerating London 's civil-defence arrangements , with the title of chief administrative officer for the London civil-defence region , as from February 1939 . |
| 24 | Adam of Bremen reports that Cnut had intended Swegen to rule Norway , Harthacnut Denmark , and Harold England , and the Historia Regum attributed to Symeon of Durham that he made Harold the English king , but the Encomium says that he not only promised Emma that any son of hers should be heir , but later on oath pledged the whole kingdom subject to him to Harthacnut , who received oaths of loyalty from English nobles . |
| 25 | He made Masklin uneasy . |
| 26 | He made Beth afraid too . |
| 27 | But he made Tony practise for four hours every day . |
| 28 | Certainly Cromwell regarded them with some anxiety , and in 1533 he made Throckmorton promise that he would ‘ stay at home and meddle little with politics ’ . |
| 29 | He made Thorfinn look like an Arab . |
| 30 | Hocazade confounded Molla Zeyrek , a feat which so impressed Mehmed II that he made Hocazade his Hoca . |