Example sentences of "he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | His new house , built of hammer dressed limestone , with Westmorland slates for the roof , abutted on to the remains of the original house which he made into a service wing , and on the south side he made the grand entrance . |
| 32 | We were actually with him when he made the identification , though . ’ |
| 33 | He made the same promise nine years ago , during the siege of the Grand Mosque at Mecca . |
| 34 | However , he made the great mistake of not living to collect it . |
| 35 | He made the priesthood and exercised a distinguished ministry . |
| 36 | He was standing at the window of an empty compartment , laughing , as he made the gesture of slitting his throat . |
| 37 | And then , he made the first of his mistakes . |
| 38 | She could see the look of astonishment on Simon 's face as he made the connections she wanted him to make . |
| 39 | Water , the original substance which God created when he made the world , represents change , and immersing oneself in a natural body of water is the only way of changing one 's spiritual identity . |
| 40 | He 's not the only one — but he made the mistake of telling it to the Washington Post . |
| 41 | Certainly to some he made the point that a government defeat would raise potential constitutional problems — the Lords could not lightly defy the will of a democratically elected House of Commons . |
| 42 | Karajan 's response to Honegger 's Symphonie liturgique and its near contemporary , Strauss 's Metamorphosen , of which he made the first recording in 1947 , provides specifically musical evidence of Karajan 's priorities and allegiances that I have yet to see considered by those who have become so concerned to analyse and recycle often erroneous information about his alleged political sympathies before and during the Second World War . |
| 43 | In any case , he made feeble efforts to help me get him to his left foot , and with my almost total support he made the few hops to reach the boat , though I could see it hurt him sorely . |
| 44 | THOMAS SHADWELL was a successful dramatist in his own day , but he made the mistake of picking a quarrel with John Dryden . |
| 45 | Born the son of a bank official , he was 23 when he made the five-week voyage to Britain aboard the Northern Star armed with an Auckland University degree to take up his scholarship place at Balliol College , Oxford , in the early 1960s . |
| 46 | Having heard of Miller 's industry , he made the suggestion to him and thus the idea of a small Dictionary was conceived . |
| 47 | He made the point that the federalists want to channel all this co-operation through the institutions of the Community , whereas the British , the French and others want a model for the treaty which keeps these areas distinct . |
| 48 | He made the point that Community institutions and common rules are necessary for running common policies like those claimed for the single market , but that in areas such as foreign policy , co-operation should remain a matter for member governments accountable to the national parliaments . |
| 49 | He made the point that defence was not a suitable matter for the European Community , with Ireland being neutral and the likelihood of Austria and Sweden also becoming members of the Community by the mid-1990s . |
| 50 | Referring to the June draft treaty in its aims to build upon the Single European Act by strengthening co-operation on foreign and security policy , he made the point that , as the Gulf conflict had shown , there was a considerable difference between the member states , but that there had been a considerable degree of united action in supporting the new democracies in central and eastern Europe in relation to the Baltic states and in promoting the Prime Minister 's safe havens initiative . |
| 51 | He made the line fast to the Zodiac 's bow cleat and set the drag brake on the reel at two hundred kilos . |
| 52 | From them he made the cornfields of immortal Camelot . |
| 53 | In the second-person sequences , he is addressed by the voice of his subconscious which , speaking in the future tense , takes him back to relive the moments of truth when he made the choices which were to determine what he later became . |
| 54 | Boy wound down the window so that he could see the stars better , and then he made the man kiss him , right there . |
| 55 | But every year , and often more than once , he made the pilgrimage to Kidlington in Oxfordshire and on one of those visits ( I can not have been more than eight years old ) took me to Thame and showed me his name on the board as head boy . |
| 56 | He made the eagle , got in front of Nicklaus , and turns and says , ‘ He 'll never get past me now . ’ |
| 57 | He made the putt to open up a five-shot lead . |
| 58 | Dissatisfied as he was , it was while Bishop of Bristol that he made the moral stand which guaranteed that his name would be heard for three centuries whenever Cornish men were gathered together . |
| 59 | He made the players feel they belonged to a great club , where even playing in the reserves was all part of an important and worthwhile enterprise . |
| 60 | Thenceforward he made the study of architecture one of his chief pleasures . |