Example sentences of "[pers pn] makes [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Ashton does something similar in Symphonic Variations where he makes overall phrase rhythms from pas de burrée en place accompanied by very distinctive ports de bras . |
| 32 | When a matter is referred to an expert for decision , he makes that decision himself . |
| 33 | But he makes new friends easily , and it was Prevert who once related the most revealing anecdote about Doisneau and his commitment to his accomplices . |
| 34 | Shortly after , he makes correct use of grammatical particles such as ‘ do ’ and , let us say , the whole auxiliary system of English , and does so across the board , that is , in questions , assertions , negations , etc . |
| 35 | As Paul writes to this leading city in Asia Minor ( present-day Turkey ) around the year AD 60 he makes many statements in opposition to the false teachers who–e influence has apparently been so prevalent . |
| 36 | He makes good progress until he reaches the cornice , which promptly rejects him in a cascade of cold , powdery ice . |
| 37 | ‘ Not only is he a good ball winner , he makes good angles and scores regularly . |
| 38 | Others have observed that , for a ‘ positivist ’ , he makes significant concessions to natural law thought . |
| 39 | Mr Cable should get his facts straight before he makes false allegations . |
| 40 | He makes slow progress through the afternoon sunshine , leaning on a gnarled stick that seems to blend invisibly into his arthritic banana-curved fingers . |
| 41 | Finally , he makes considerable use of ‘ natural experiments ’ , the sociological , or in this case literary , device , of studying those natural contrasts which crop up from time to time . |
| 42 | Handsome new Dr Robert Khalefa is so arrogant he makes fatal errors . |
| 43 | ‘ He makes little gestures that are profoundly human . |
| 44 | He makes forty contacts . |
| 45 | To this end he makes periodic counts , from the issue records , of the number of books on loan in each category . |
| 46 | He makes heavy use of what may be called the Argument from Personal Incredulity . |
| 47 | You must prod him with coloured pencils , or tell him he must be joking when he makes heavy weather of something that another author does neatly . |
| 48 | He stands alone — as Kenneth Clarke or David Ennals will confirm — and he makes few friends . |
| 49 | Yvonete , who works in the nearby cigarette factory , takes us to her husband 's workshop , where he makes wooden effigies of the Christ of Rio for sale to tourists . |
| 50 | Alina leans on the rail beside Angelica , both of them looking down at Walter as he makes another thrust into the darkness beneath them . |
| 51 | What happens when he makes another hole ? |
| 52 | He makes another leap , now he 's started , and sees three particular candle-flames , three particular shadows , all charged with particular feeling . |
| 53 | He makes most people with so-called principles look like empty tin cans . |
| 54 | And once he makes this decision he he ca n't after a year or two say well no that was wrong , I wo n't I 'll er I 'll change now because he 's only got two years there . |
| 55 | The promise and the fulfilment , let me just give you a couple of verses there in John fourteen , John make er , Jesus he makes this statement to his disciples , in John fourteen , in verses sixteen and seventeen , and I will ask the Father and he will give you another helper , another word for the Holy Spirit , that he may be with you forever . |
| 56 | Eddie Stride in one of his books he makes this statement , he says , my jealousy , your envy , someone else 's pride , needs the pardon bought with the blood of Christ at Calvary , as much as someone else 's promiscuity , or perversion . |
| 57 | To form a working hypothesis , he makes some assumptions ; that global warming is irreversibly established , that the probable result for Britain would be a rise in sea levels , and that while the south-east will become more ‘ Mediterranean ’ , the north-west will get milder and wetter . |
| 58 | I 'm sure he makes some sort of reaction I ca n't see . |
| 59 | He makes some allegations which I ca n't understand . |
| 60 | He makes enough noise does n't he ? |