Example sentences of "he [was/were] make a [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 | He was made a great pet of by Edouard 's manservant , George , and by his cook . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This was both a matter of pride and of business sense at a time when he was making a major export drive towards America . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | The tavern wench seemed a promising young lady and he was making a tidy pile of silver out of selling his exotic cures to the villagers and visitors to The Bull . |
| 10 | He was making a small fortune with his spectacular ballets which toured the whole year round . |
| 11 | He was making a tremendous effort to appear calm , if possible to be calm . |
| 12 | Mr Christie , backed by the campaigning organisation Liberty , yesterday announced he was making a formal complaint to the European Commission on Human Rights over the routine interception of telexes sent to him at the STUC 's Glasgow headquarters by a special unit within GCHQ . |
| 13 | Mark 's brother Tim said from the family home in Trewennack , Helston : ‘ Mark missed last Christmas because he was on guard duty so obviously this year he was making a special effort . ’ |
| 14 | He was making a careful examination of the bowls and plates it contained in dusty confusion . |
| 15 | His timing was impeccable attacking his old boss on the day he was making a big speech on the economy . |
| 16 | He was making a lucrative living rustling horses , cattle and sheep from the surrounding farms by night , and then selling them in the Newbury and Marlborough markets by day . |
| 17 | He was making a wonderful recovery and in the few hours we were there we managed to get him on to an ambulance train — off to Myitkyina to be flown out to India . |
| 18 | Earlier yesterday Ms Place had shown the world heavyweight boxing champion , Riddick Bowe , around Mogadishu , where he was making a brief charity visit . |