Example sentences of "he made the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The empty alejacks scattered on the table before him made the coroner look like an angry Bacchus surrounded by votive offerings . |
| 2 | In this way , the student can gain confidence by knowing that he made the decisions and that they were sensible ones . |
| 3 | Leonard was full-blooded , physically and temperamentally , and these teenage years saw him active in a wide range of sporting interests : cycling ( one of his favourite pastimes then ) , skiing , swimming , canoeing , sailing and ice-hockey ( in which he made the school team ) , boxing and wrestling , though he was very little involved in the last two . |
| 4 | He undoubtedly had in mind the particular patterns and balanced relationship of the various dances ( i.e. solos , grands pas , variations , etc. ) as laid out in all Petipa ballets and he made the ballerina the focus of all attention . |
| 5 | As a septuagenarian , he made the trip to Ireland on the back of his son Eon 's motor-bike to find the Killarney Fern — long since believed gone from its single recorded site on Moel Hebog in Snowdonia . |
| 6 | He made the comment in remarks to a visiting official from North Korea , one of only a handful of foreign countries to send special delegations for national day . |
| 7 | Faldo said at Wentworth yesterday that he made the decision because he feels he can not now finish at the top of the European order of merit by playing in Spain . |
| 8 | You could say that , somehow , he made the most convincing of the would-be-leaders ' speeches . |
| 9 | He made the Eastern breakthrough via his Yugoslav publishers , who thought the non-violent message would be well received by Russians . |
| 10 | He made the most of his superb wind section , used the extra clarity of the strings to underline the richness of the harmony , and encouraged the brass to cut through the texture and pin down the rhythm as , for example , in the exhilarating chorus ‘ Achieved is the Glorious Work ’ . |
| 11 | Ironically , he made the accusation in 1931 shortly before he himself exercised ‘ power without responsibility ’ as the dominant figure in Ramsay MacDonald 's National Coalition government , controlling MacDonald 's government without bearing the responsibility of being Prime Minister . |
| 12 | He made the dead languages into living literature . |
| 13 | But he made the recommendation with a proviso . |
| 14 | In this he made the Black Panthers the first significant radical group to recognize gay liberation as a valid political movement , and did so in terms which provoked hostility from some in his own party : ‘ maybe I 'm injecting some of my prejudices by saying that ‘ even a homosexual can be revolutionary' ’ . |
| 15 | He built his dragons a garden , the most beautiful garden in the world , and although he surrounded it with an iron wall which he believed they would not cross , he made the wall beautiful for them , lavish with filigree work and sweet with hanging plants . |
| 16 | When he moved from Newcastle-upon-Tyne to Nottingham he made the journey down the A1 for better fishing and the chance to learn from big name anglers . |
| 17 | Once again , though , he made the usual pithy Formula 1 comments coupled with amusing anecdotes from the IOM historic jolly , making for a well-balanced , interesting page . |
| 18 | In 1922 , he made The Man Without Desire , an imaginative account of a man who wakes from a sleep of several hundred years only to find he suffers from a lack of emotion . |
| 19 | ‘ He made the ears out of an old pair of mouse ears I 'd used for a previous party , ’ she says . |
| 20 | IT WAS a full year before he made the break — but eventually , on August 21 , 1984 , he went over to one of the more independent local magazines , Cauce , and asked for its leading journalist Monica Gonzalez . |
| 21 | He made the cut by three strokes , and in qualifying for the final two rounds he has already guaranteed himself a place on next season 's growing satellite tour , Europe 's golfing second division . |
| 22 | He made the cut by three strokes , and in qualifying for the final two rounds he has already guaranteed himself a place on next season 's growing satellite tour , Europe 's golfing second division . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We were actually with him when he made the identification , though . ’ |
| 25 | He made the same promise nine years ago , during the siege of the Grand Mosque at Mecca . |
| 26 | However , he made the great mistake of not living to collect it . |
| 27 | He made the priesthood and exercised a distinguished ministry . |
| 28 | He was standing at the window of an empty compartment , laughing , as he made the gesture of slitting his throat . |
| 29 | And then , he made the first of his mistakes . |
| 30 | She could see the look of astonishment on Simon 's face as he made the connections she wanted him to make . |