Example sentences of "he makes a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he makes a mistake , he has to rectify it . |
| 2 | To make the comparison fair , we should have to assume that built into each typist 's chair is a gun , wired up so that if he makes a mistake he is summarily shot , his place being taken by a reserve typist ( squeamish readers may prefer to imagine a spring-loaded ejector seat gently catapulting miscreant typists out of the line , but the gun gives a more realistic picture of natural selection ) . |
| 3 | Can you lean over the desk , flashing the contents of your bra , and be amazed when he makes a grab for you ? |
| 4 | At the door he makes a smile . |
| 5 | A devout follower of Mórr who does n't have Magical Awareness will still sense a magical effect on the wand if he makes a WP test with a -10 penalty . |
| 6 | If he makes a will , as most men do , it is almost certain that he will set apart a considerable proportion for the saying of masses ; if he should neglect to do so , and in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries it is regarded as almost a sin to die without making a will , the Church ought to make the provision which he has failed to make for his soul . |
| 7 | Then he makes a lightning trip back on Concorde for Petit Loup in the Arc a few hours later . |
| 8 | The 22-year-old Cockney is so lonely in the Midlands he makes a 300mile round-trip to his mum 's house , a bus ride from Upton Park , immediately after Forest home games . |
| 9 | Take him out before he makes a run for safe ground ? ’ |
| 10 | He makes a run for it . |
| 11 | In Committee the Minister said that the Secretary of State will see clearly from the disposal programme whether pension arrangements are a key factor and will take that into account before he makes a decision . |
| 12 | Also in 1908 audiences could have seen Unemployed and Unemployable in which the central character begins by haranguing a crowd ; he is dragged off by his wife and given a whole range of domestic tasks all of which he makes a mess of ; he accidentally acquires stolen goods and is arrested ; the film ends with this ‘ lounger ’ working at last but in the cells . |
| 13 | Well , then he might have to he makes a mess of that bed I ai n't made of money you know ! |
| 14 | Later , after Picasso had denied any knowledge of African art in the Enquête sur l'Art Négre conducted by the review Action in 1920 , Paul Guillaume , the first Parisian art-dealer to become interested in African and other primitive sculptures as works of art , wrote : ‘ Picasso owns a certain number of pieces of very different origins ; he makes a pretence of attaching no importance to their chronology . ’ |
| 15 | He makes a bootleg . |
| 16 | He makes a pact with the devil whereby the devil will be his servant and do his bidding for 24 years , after which time he will render up his immortal soul . |
| 17 | I actually think Black was fouled but as you say he makes a bit of a song and dance about it . |
| 18 | he makes a plan a diff a different way sort of thing . |
| 19 | A Christian authority on eastern religions , Patrick Sookhdeo said , ‘ I have seen that whenever a person uses yoga , he makes a shift from a monotheistic view of God , to a pantheistic view ( God identified with nature ) , and finally to a monistic view ( God as an impersonal IT , without form , personality and essence ) . |
| 20 | But he makes a mockery of the idea of ‘ two cultures ’ , of a tension between technology and the humanities . |
| 21 | At each successful shot , he makes a remark , as an expression of his ‘ modesty ’ , such as : |
| 22 | If you do n't see him , you 've got to make all your points religiously until you see him , and having found him , he makes a note in his diary , and you make a note in yours and you 're away . |
| 23 | And then he makes a value judgement . |
| 24 | He makes a digging-stick , moro , for his boy to play with while the father is doing the actual work of weeding or turning the soil . |
| 25 | It is characteristic of a kind of hardness in the fable that on this one occasion when Gollum 's heart is stirred and he makes a gesture of penitence , Sam should wake up , misunderstand , and accuse Gollum of ‘ pawing ’ and ‘ sneaking ’ . |
| 26 | He makes a cup of tea at night and that 's his effort . |
| 27 | He makes a point of mentioning in The Rock one of his music-hall favourites , George Robey . |
| 28 | He makes a point of acquiring a substantial area of grounds , not just the lawns immediately around the house , but the walled gardens and shrubberies beyond , running to twenty or even fifty acres . |
| 29 | He makes a point of mentioning in his Guide the provision ( or lack of it ) for the poor and ill . |
| 30 | Friendly and approachable , he makes a point of knowing people individually whenever he can . |