Example sentences of "he [be] make [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had never physically hurt her , although there had been more than one occasion towards the end of their short , fraught marriage when he had looked as if he were making a huge effort to stop himself raising a hand to her . |
| 2 | By the conceit he is making a serious point : his poetry is repetitive because the virtues of the Friend are semper eadem . |
| 3 | He is not claiming that representations have their causal significance only in some societies or in some epochs , but he is making a general assumption about psychological functioning and , thereby , about human nature . |
| 4 | She wrote , with an unaccustomed fluency , which made her sister wonder if the words had been thought up by her alone , that : — it would not be good for Oreste to leave here at this moment since he has been ill and though he is making a good recovery the doctor who you can be sure I was quick to call and no expense being spared but your money put to good use has said it would injure his general well-being to travel in his weakened state . |
| 5 | But he is making a remarkable recovery . |
| 6 | He is making a commendable effort to appear nonchalant and relaxed , despite the oversize top hat in his hand and the obtrusive stunted tree and rustic stile provided by the photographer , Mr. G. Diviani , in his Holloway Road studio opposite the Caledonian Church . |
| 7 | Mr Stern 's costings tell him it is not worth paying more than £750/acre for bare arable land if he is to make a reasonable living . |
| 8 | With Sugar and ‘ Copper Blue ’ he 's made a great start . |
| 9 | He 's made a good marriage . |
| 10 | He 's made a good start , now comes the big push . |
| 11 | Saddlers manager Kenny Hibbitt said : ‘ I always knew he had quality and he 's made a tremendous start to his career . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ He 's made a marvellous recovery since he 's been with us in Barbados . |
| 13 | ‘ He 's made a remarkable recovery , ’ Sister Cooney said . |
| 14 | President George Bush said : ‘ I do n't know what Saddam 's doing , but he 's made a big mistake . |
| 15 | She says : ‘ He 's made a big difference to my being able to get through it . |
| 16 | If he 's made me believe them , that means he 's made a large part of the new me . |
| 17 | Jim has been a newspaper seller in Swindon for 25 years and now for the first time in his life , he 's made the front page . |
| 18 | Khovanshchina is so : you see what happens , someone is coming or someone is angry or unhappy or he 's making a political move or it 's coming from the heart . |
| 19 | The estranged wife of the Marquis of Blandford says he 's making a real effort to get back on the straight and narrow . |
| 20 | ‘ He 's making a few phone calls , ’ she said at last . |
| 21 | I think he 's making a valid point . |
| 22 | He 's making a lovely mess with that . |
| 23 | ‘ — at the moment he 's making a beautiful chain for a Mayoress down south . ’ |
| 24 | Because that 's you know he 's he 's making the right choice making the right judgemen judgement . |
| 25 | He was made a great pet of by Edouard 's manservant , George , and by his cook . |
| 26 | The father-of-three became chairman of the Bar Council in 1972 and three years later he was made a High Court Judge and was immediately appointed to the Chancery Division . |
| 27 | And so these two brothers , they both got back on , but unfortunately er Les , he was made a full time official of the miners , when he retired , full time official of the miners union . |
| 28 | He was made an honorary FRCOG in 1958 , and chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1968 . |
| 29 | He was made an honorary member of the club and given the promise of free beer for the rest of his life . |
| 30 | In 1965 he was made an honorary fellow of the Australasian College of Surgeons and became president of the International College of Surgeons . |