Example sentences of "[noun pl] 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 | 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 ? |
| 5 | It was not the harm he might do himself but the slips he might make along the way which alerted Emlyn . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ You do n't know half the things he can make , Melanie . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The muffled bellows were the only sounds he could make as his face was pushed closer and closer to the glowing rings . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It could have been a very smart room , Sean thought , mentally ticking off the changes he would make . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Therefore , most of the King 's resources must have been bound up in those ships and the various uses he could make of them . |
| 16 | The private householder having work done to his own property is not required to make deductions from any payments he may make to subcontractors . |
| 17 | From the accounts he will make careful note of the overheads , staffing provision and wages . |
| 18 | He thought of the calls he must make to tell the other T'ang , but for the moment he felt no impulse towards action . |
| 19 | The following had been written : ‘ I entrust to my sons that if one should die before the other leaving no children he should make over his share to his surviving brother ; but if both die childless I wish the whole estate to pass to my granddaughter Claudia . ’ |
| 20 | Whatever shamefaced and boyish confessions he might make to his patients , he controlled his smoking , rationing himself to between ten and fifteen a day . |