Example sentences of "he [vb past] make [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he helped make development a causal science his theories were largely wrong ; even so , his preformationist ideas , in which nuclear determinants were unequally distributed during cleavage did stimulate the key experiments . |
| 2 | Mr Jones said : ‘ He did make reference to the letter in the speech that he made and he did make positive noises but whether they will translate into positive actions we 'll have to wait and see . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ He did make things difficult for a few minutes and I did consider having him fired from the chamber . |
| 4 | Staring from the window , her mouth curved in a smile , she wondered what he would say if she told him that if he did make love to her he would be the first . |
| 5 | It was inevitable that if , in saying anything that blamed others , he did make admissions in part that would tend to confirm the accuracy of the allegations that had already been made against him . |
| 6 | In the first two reports of the Commissioner , he drew attention to a few technical problems , such as wrong numbers being intercepted , and he did make recommendations as to how the procedures should be modified , describing these as being of ‘ no great importance ’ . |