Example sentences of "he [be] make a [adj] [noun] " 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 | If Looking on the Bright Side ( 1932 ) is sometimes spoilt by the fact that the director , Basil Dean , seems to be under the impression he is making a sophisticated Hollywood musical , the scenes in the tenement block where Fields and her songwriter lover first meet are genuinely stirring . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | With Sugar and ‘ Copper Blue ’ he 's made a great start . |
| 10 | He 's made a good marriage . |
| 11 | He 's made a good start , now comes the big push . |
| 12 | Saddlers manager Kenny Hibbitt said : ‘ I always knew he had quality and he 's made a tremendous start to his career . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ He 's made a marvellous recovery since he 's been with us in Barbados . |
| 14 | ‘ He 's made a remarkable recovery , ’ Sister Cooney said . |
| 15 | President George Bush said : ‘ I do n't know what Saddam 's doing , but he 's made a big mistake . |
| 16 | She says : ‘ He 's made a big difference to my being able to get through it . |
| 17 | If he 's made me believe them , that means he 's made a large part of the new me . |
| 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 | He was made a great pet of by Edouard 's manservant , George , and by his cook . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Those light eyes rested on her as if he was making a mental sketch of her face ; then he glanced at the slim gold watch on his wrist . |
| 28 | In September 1726 Miller reported to Richardson that he was making a comprehensive catalogue of seeds saved from the previous year and would be forwarding it with Martyn 's Synoptical Table of Medicinal Plants and a list of exotics at Chelsea . |
| 29 | This was both a matter of pride and of business sense at a time when he was making a major export drive towards America . |
| 30 | made me laugh cos we 'd gone up to house tonight , he said he was making a real effort to be good and to and he , when he got up to house today he goes I was doing a really gentlemanly thing and saying oh thank you for a really nice evening , I started laughing well what was I supposed to ? |