Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb past] make " in BNC.

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1 Although he helped make development a causal science his theories were largely wrong ; even so , his preformationist ideas , in which nuclear determinants were unequally distributed during cleavage did stimulate the key experiments .
2 For example , we do not know exactly how God made the world , but that does n't stop us believing that he DID make the world .
3 One thing that he did make very clear at the end was that if we thought of other things that he should know about , or it would be helpful for him to know about , we should contact him , so he 's left it very open for us to have an ongoing contact which I thought .
4 In the first two reports of the Commissioner , he drew attention to a few technical problems , such as wrong numbers being intercepted , and he did make recommendations as to how the procedures should be modified , describing these as being of ‘ no great importance ’ .
5 Not to his face , you understand , and he did make up for it by giving lavishly to the church … ’
6 Mr Jones said : ‘ He did make reference to the letter in the speech that he made and he did make positive noises but whether they will translate into positive actions we 'll have to wait and see . ’
7 And if he did make his bed and then come in extra early this morning , like as not he 'd have relocked the door and set the internal alarms . "
8 Staring from the window , her mouth curved in a smile , she wondered what he would say if she told him that if he did make love to her he would be the first .
9 He did not make money , but he did make his name by persuading a great many people to visit the Exhibition with Cooks .
10 More often than not though , when he did make an absolute cock up , it was either a big occasion ( fa cup final ) , or the cameras were there ( throws ball in own net at Anfield ) .
11 Unlike the Mantuan and Ferrarese madrigalists , Marenzio composed mainly for the pleasure of the performers themselves , not for courtly audiences listening to brilliant executants , though he did make some essays in the three-upper-part style associated with the Ferrarese ladies , notably the exquisite ‘ Hor chi Clori ’ in his Sixth five-part book ( 1594 ) , and he must have reckoned on good performers to tackle the chromaticisms of ‘ O voi che sospirate ’ ( Book II , 1581 ) .
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