Example sentences of "he [adv] made a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Here at the scene of the crime he only made a preliminary examination . |
2 | Snooker was his hobby , and he usually made a weekly visit to a snooker club nearby , with his next-door neighbour , Bill Austin . |
3 | 20 day later , while he was doing some finishing off work on the bungalow , he recklessly made a false statement , i. e. he told the purchaser that the bungalow was covered by the National House Builders Registration Council 's 10 year guarantee . |
4 | The fact that he also made a little money for himself in the process was considered only reasonable by the majority of fans . |
5 | He also made a personal onslaught upon Saddam Hussein whom he accused of having " sickened the world " with his " tools of terror " , and appeared to suggest an enlargement of allied war aims to include the capture of the Iraqi President . |
6 | He also made a separate map of the area he had surveyed himself , several regional maps , two town plans , and ( his only signed work ) a fort plan . |
7 | He also made a major contribution to local history through his editorship of the series of pamphlets produced by the local branch of the Historical Association . |
8 | In extending the territorial limits of Canterbury 's jurisdiction , he also made a notable advance . |
9 | His article on heraldry in the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica remains one of the best and most erudite introductions to the subject : he also made a shorter contribution to Shakespeare 's England ( 1916 ) . |
10 | He also made a special study of the outcasts , the waifs and strays of industrial society the vagrants and the idiots . |
11 | He also made a creeper-covered trellis in front of the house door and did all the garden , ‘ do all the flowers . ’ |
12 | In his Chicago lectures , for example , he described how certain passages of Notes toward the Definition of Culture had been exposed as a " mass of contradictions " and , at the end , he also made a rueful disclaimer — " I am quite aware that I have been trying to persuade , although I may not be quite sure of what " . |
13 | He immediately made a formal protest and Agent Monteith was summoned to mediate . |
14 | He even made a decent back pass when under some pressure ! |
15 | He then made a new will : this does have the effect of invalidating the previous one . |
16 | He then made a major contribution to the development of the internal combustion engine , originating the use of aluminium for pistons . |
17 | He undoubtedly made a major contribution , not only to the profession of chemical engineering but to technology and technological education generally . |
18 | He therefore made a radical break with the French socialist tradition of speculation on the details of a socialist society , in favour of developing the real working class movement against capitalism which would work out the ‘ details of socialism ’ in the process of struggle . |
19 | And then he too made a troubled face . |
20 | He subsequently made a brief stop in Turkey en route to Geneva . |
21 | He certainly made a great entrance : I played a slow air , a favourite of mine , Cuaist Nam Fir-Cun Og ( The Flight of the Eaglets ) . |
22 | He certainly made a few enemies . |