Example sentences of "[noun] he [modal v] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | A touch of restraint on his horse 's reins to reduce its gallop and an extravagant sign of the cross were the best amends he could make this time for his inability to comply . |
| 2 | Julius needs to maintain a certain lifestyle , and you might find it difficult at first to cope with the demands he 'll make on you . ’ |
| 3 | Coming into the Virgin offices he would make exaggeratedly friendly overtures to the post boy and the receptionist and be sullen and truculent with Branson or Simon Draper . |
| 4 | Beyond the stained glass window he could make out two male silhouettes . |
| 5 | He looked up at the house and through a dormer window he could make out the outline of a figure , seated and immobile , facing the sea . |
| 6 | The cloth inside muffled the noise , but when he got close to the window he could make out a human voice . |
| 7 | It would be the perfect private situation in which Tim might be ready to explain himself , and Oliver would be there to witness any confession he might make . |
| 8 | I wondered what sort of job he would make of it . |
| 9 | It was Ceauşescu who reassured Sadat with positive answers to his key questions : Could he trust Menachem Begin and could Begin deliver on any promises he might make to Egypt ? |
| 10 | It was not the harm he might do himself but the slips he might make along the way which alerted Emlyn . |
| 11 | No , no the shop could use it then as a as a loss leader he could make say , a penny on it an ge so if he buys it at , you 're buying what , thirty five ? |
| 12 | Think psychology rather than economics when you see the details , for Bill Clinton 's success in changing the American mood is the best economic move he could make . |
| 13 | In his poetry , Wordsworth uses the language of faith years before his ‘ prose mind ’ can accept Christian doctrine ; this is why his ‘ conversion ’ is impossible to date , and why there is so much divergence between the poetic and prose statements he may make at any stage in his progress . |
| 14 | Maximilian , however , is desperately hungry for blood , and after 3 rounds of combat he must make a Cl test ( and at 2-round intervals after this until a test is failed ) . |
| 15 | but Pete if he , I mean I do n't see why he does n't if he went private for two years he 'd make enough to retire , in two years , no sweat , he wo n't have to work again , I mean I bet his house is paid for |
| 16 | Even at this distance he could make out the faint octarine glow in the air that must be indicating a stable magic aura of at least — he gasped — several milliprime ? |
| 17 | It 's partly because I 'm so lonely , it 's partly deliberate ( I want to make him relax , both for his own good and so that one day he may make a mistake ) , so it 's part weakness , and part cunning , and part charity . |
| 18 | I knew he had a private hope that some day he might make a book with them . |
| 19 | One day he would make a mistake , then she would have him . |
| 20 | The beast by candle-light ; the trip to bed where all the things you would n't do , have n't done , are things he 'll make you do , and things you 'll want ; and then the beast 's departure , out on his own , still smelling your smell but looking for fresh tracks . |
| 21 | ‘ You do n't know half the things he can make , Melanie . ’ |
| 22 | By pointing out a flower or describing a rarity he could make a walk supremely interesting and was indeed a charming companion on any expedition in the fields . |
| 23 | Maxim felt a moment of total disorientation before he realised that something must have gone badly wrong , that because she had not greeted him he must stay being Winterbotham , that because they were strangers he must make the first move . |
| 24 | The muffled bellows were the only sounds he could make as his face was pushed closer and closer to the glowing rings . |
| 25 | When entrusted with government he did not make a mess of it ; if deprived of his rights he would make a much more serious opponent than the Young King . |
| 26 | Thus in a self-contract he may make a contract such as ‘ if at the end of the week I have gone without a drink , or lost x lbs in weight , I can buy myself … ’ . |
| 27 | Thorpe J. found that W. had sufficient understanding to make an informed decision but held that he had jurisdiction to authorise medical treatment without W. 's consent , and he concluded that in view of the medical evidence he should make the order sought . |
| 28 | Phil 's been linked in the past with Vortex 's more prestigious neighbours Leyton House , now called March — he 's out to prove on Sunday he can make it in Formula One . |
| 29 | It could have been a very smart room , Sean thought , mentally ticking off the changes he would make . |
| 30 | At Key Biscayne , a week before he expected to be competing in the doubles against Czechoslovakia in their Davis Cup quarter finals , he even started outlining some of the changes he would make should he be given the job . |