Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [pron] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack Smith remembers one lecture Minton gave during which he made riveting use of a hip flask , saying ‘ Excuse me one minute ’ as he drank from it . |
| 2 | George helped the Palace to gain promotion from Division Four in his first season at Selhurst Park , during which he made full appearances for us , and he continued as a first-team regular under Dick Graham , to become one of only two men to appear in both the 1961 and 1964 promotion sides . |
| 3 | Back in Ireland he continued with his duties at the Society for which he made mineralogical tours of Galway and Mayo ( 1825 ) , Donegal ( 1826 ) , Antrim , Down , and Londonderry ( 1828 ) , and Londonderry and Tyrone ( 1829 ) . |
| 4 | In 1950 Hoffnung began a career as a broadcaster , during the course of which he made many appearances on the radio as both raconteur and panel member . |
| 5 | I kept a notebook of what I made each day . |
| 6 | From his vantage point in Worcester House he became involved in the speculative buying of soldiers ' bills , with which he made fifteen purchases of Crown land , mostly on behalf of other men . |
| 7 | ( 55 ) I found a bottle with which I made numerous marks on the ground surrounding our tents and a few yards into the jungle , as far as I dared venture . |
| 8 | It is known in the House that the reality is a choice between many hours in Committee characterised by filibuster and slow progress , and a number of hours in Committee in which we make reasonable progress . |
| 9 | Miller won 41 per cent of the total vote , a proportion which reflected the skill with which he conducted a campaign in which he made good use of the experience gained during his 16 years as lieutenant-governor . |
| 10 | Waller 's research interests started in the emerging field of electro-physiology , in which he made useful contributions to the study of fatigue in muscle and the nature of cardiac potentials . |
| 11 | I have read his speech in this House , in which he made most of those points , and some of his contributions in the Water Bill Committee , in which he made other points which have been well answered by my Hon. Friend the Minister of State . |
| 12 | Wyatt 's subsequent work was primarily as a country-house architect and ‘ improver ’ , although he competed unsuccessfully for a number of major public commissions and in 1816 published a Prospectus of a Design for Various Improvements in the Metropolis , in which he made radical proposals for replanning the West End . |
| 13 | AT first they build temporary shelters by weaving a kind of palm branch into matting from which they make little houses . |
| 14 | Cameron first worked for Catherine at the palace of Tsarskoe Selo , to which he made several additions over a period of fifteen years , notably the Agate Pavilion and the Cameron Gallery , an elegant building based on the neo-classical style developed in England by Robert Adam , about which Cameron had probably learned from Clérisseau . |
| 15 | If I hear of one more occasion on which you make these allegations I shall feel it my duty to pass them on to Connon myself . |
| 16 | On which he makes two statements : first , that we are unmoved by it ; second , that it is a tragedy , especially to the eight-year-old son . |