Example sentences of "he [verb] a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made a complete idiot of himself over that , and I swear it was n't done deliberately . |
| 2 | He made a spectacular series of prints after Constable landscapes and Constable himself provided hands-on involvement in five of them . |
| 3 | In City terms he could claim some credit , along with Peter Walker , as the father of modern unit trusts , while he made a personal profit of £1 million from the sale of Cannon Insurance , the UK vehicle of the disgraced Bernie Cornfeld . |
| 4 | He made a mental note of the number of coaches and freight cars . |
| 5 | Smartly closing the regulator , he made a partial application of the steam brake , paused , released it , paused once again , then when he heard the wagon buffers face up , he made a full brake application . |
| 6 | Instead , he went to the Gramophone Company 's factory at Hayes , and on 28 April he made a private record of the speech , proposing a toast to the future of the paper . |
| 7 | He made a guilty grimace of assent . |
| 8 | ‘ I think neither of us had a choice for a while , ’ she offered , and he made a slight movement of denial , as if he did n't want to believe it . |
| 9 | By his own account , after much expenditure of charcoal and years of failure , he discovered a powder through which he made a successful projection of sufficient gold to pay off his creditors . |
| 10 | To her intense dismay and astonishment , he suddenly hurled down the room in a series of cartwheels ; he made a whizzing plaything of his devilish masked self , a fizzing Catherine wheel , flashing arms and legs , landing on his hands before her , his upside-down false face obscured by hair both false and real , tumbling over his papier-mâché cheeks . |
| 11 | He made a great pretence of studying her ticket , turning it over , then turning it back . |
| 12 | At first he made a great success of his new-found freedom , earning sufficient money to rent an elegant apartment , marry , and enjoy a reasonable standard of living . |
| 13 | When his father began talking again , a little irritated frown wrinkled his smooth young brow , but although he made a great play of concentrating fiercely on his reading , he still listened carefully from behind the book to what was being said . |
| 14 | Glancing at Dieter , Melissa read ‘ What did I tell you ? ’ in his smile as he made a great pantomime of clearing his throat . |
| 15 | He also enjoyed the ornamentation provided by an attractive , vivacious woman and he made a great fuss of Susan in public , as he did also of Wally Fawkes 's girlfriend and later wife , the red-haired Sandy Carmichael , of whom he was genuinely fond . |
| 16 | He made a terrible swing of what I believe was a 4-iron and pulled his ball into the left trap . |
| 17 | This certainly did not mean that he had become a tool of Moscow , but that he made a shrewd assessment of which ideology was most likely to speed up progress in Africa . |
| 18 | In the Eighties , he made a remarkable body of neon art and it is that side of his activity which forms an exhibition at Anthony d'Offay ( to 16 May ) . |
| 19 | In July 1815 Hodgskin embarked on a walking tour which took him first to Paris and later to Germany , where he made a detailed study of the political and economic institutions of Hanover . |
| 20 | When he did , he made a gurgling kind of noise then rose to his full height in the pew and bellowed like a bull-calf , ‘ NOREEN ! ’ |
| 21 | At her sudden acquiescence , he made a little sound of satisfaction deep in his throat and his embrace tightened , becoming almost painful in its intensity , making it difficult for her to breathe . |
| 22 | He made a swift circuit of the room , studying the read-outs of each station , pausing only once , to run his fingers across the MultiCray input terminal . |
| 23 | He made a swift gesture of drawing a knife across his throat , rolled up his eyes and gagged . |
| 24 | With the hood open he made a swift examination of the engine . |
| 25 | Thus , overall , he made a gross profit of 10 ( 1080 + 2 × 400 ) = £18 800 . |
| 26 | He made a scientific study of illuminated medieval Haggadot ( service books for the home on Passover eve ) ; he also collaborated with the Polish artist , Artur Szyk , in the most sumptuous of modern printed editions of the Haggadah ( 1940 ) . |
| 27 | He made a beautiful job of it , it was a really nice machine and he was talking about making another one . |
| 28 | Although he made a huge bonfire of his papers and correspondence in 1916 , and kept it going for a few days , Edward preserved all her letters along with his notebooks . |
| 29 | Anxious not to draw attention to himself , he made a considerable performance of taking his napkin out of its ring and unfolding it . |
| 30 | He made a sour kind of joke out of it , that they must wait until their wedding night . |