Example sentences of "he makes [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His description of how he watched helplessly as one of the deadly missiles thundered towards him makes chilling reading . |
| 2 | At the same time , he makes useful points which can lead us to other conclusions : |
| 3 | Gustave writes this in one of his earliest letters to Louise Colet ; and over a seven-year period ( 1846–53 ) he makes occasional references to the planned autobiography . |
| 4 | Al Gore falls asleep as he makes maiden speech as Vice-President ; no-one notices — they 're all asleep too . |
| 5 | Even my dad , he makes sexist remarks to me about my looks . |
| 6 | ( Thus Auer complains of Gumperz that " sometimes he makes strong claims about the effect of a given type or instance of code switching on the subsequent development of the sequence , which are based on informants ' reports , but fails to reproduce this subsequent passage " ( Auer 1984b : 106 , fn. 10 ) . ) |
| 7 | He makes vast series of variations on given sets of conditions . |
| 8 | He makes great videos as well . |
| 9 | The PLAYER stands with huge , terrible eyes , clutches at the wound as the blade withdraws : he makes small weeping sounds and falls to his knees , and then right down : While he is dying , GUIL , nervous , high , almost hysterical , wheels on the TRAGEDIANS ) If we have a destiny , then so had he — and if this is ours , then that was his — and if there are no explanation for us , then let there be none for him ( The TRAGEDIANS watch the PLAYER die : they watch with some interest . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He makes good progress until he reaches the cornice , which promptly rejects him in a cascade of cold , powdery ice . |
| 14 | ‘ Not only is he a good ball winner , he makes good angles and scores regularly . |
| 15 | Others have observed that , for a ‘ positivist ’ , he makes significant concessions to natural law thought . |
| 16 | Mr Cable should get his facts straight before he makes false allegations . |
| 17 | He makes slow progress through the afternoon sunshine , leaning on a gnarled stick that seems to blend invisibly into his arthritic banana-curved fingers . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Handsome new Dr Robert Khalefa is so arrogant he makes fatal errors . |
| 20 | ‘ He makes little gestures that are profoundly human . |
| 21 | To this end he makes periodic counts , from the issue records , of the number of books on loan in each category . |
| 22 | He makes heavy use of what may be called the Argument from Personal Incredulity . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Before he makes wild aspersions about other people , he should visit the school in his constituency , where he will find excellent education going on . |
| 26 | A fairly successful artist — he makes abstract expressionist constructions which borrow motifs from primitive ritual — Hopkins has been doing this since the mid-Seventies . |
| 27 | An example of this is the way that he makes big things seem really unimportant , and trivialities seem very important . |