Example sentences of "he makes " in BNC.
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| 1 | He makes it his business to extract from fashion whatever element it may contain of poetry within history , to distil the eternal from the transitory … |
| 2 | He makes a particular point of technique . |
| 3 | Then there is the tale of a lying girl , as she may be , with whom he makes love , and who alarms him with word of a threatening German — a former SS man , perhaps . |
| 4 | But a solicitous critic ( Amis has had his share , for all the faces he makes ) could perhaps be counted on to demonstrate that the novelist is sorry that Patrick is sexist . |
| 5 | He makes mistakes and causes havoc , in pursuit of the right course . |
| 6 | Wilde 's The Importance of Being Earnest is a must and of the large Shavian canon I suggest you read St Joan and The Doctor 's Dilemma or Major Barbara to get a clear idea of his style and the kind of demands he makes of actors verbally . |
| 7 | On which he makes two statements : first , that we are unmoved by it ; second , that it is a tragedy , especially to the eight-year-old son . |
| 8 | Regrettably , he makes the same point in his brilliant collection of causeries In Defence Of Art , gathered together by his wife Aileen , in 1988 , when he links Susan Musgrave 's ‘ inner nightmares ’ to Leonard 's ‘ early poetry ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ He makes me feel as though I ought to go and write ‘ I must always measure my ingredients ’ five hundred times . ’ |
| 10 | Ashton does something similar in Symphonic Variations where he makes overall phrase rhythms from pas de burrée en place accompanied by very distinctive ports de bras . |
| 11 | Despite the contrast he makes between the dances of Puck and |
| 12 | In The House of the Dead he makes us feel that the grim actualities of prison life do this job for him . |
| 13 | He makes the reasonable point that the upholders of traditional positions might achieve a new plausibility if they could be seen actually arguing for them , rather than merely asserting them . |
| 14 | Evidence of this is in the play he makes with the Virgilian aether and patet ( Aeneid 6 , 127 , 130 ) in the puzzling but impressive Canto 16 . |
| 15 | The poet can not lose ; whatever claims he makes for the momentousness of his subjectmatter are vindicated simply by the way those claims are made . |
| 16 | One must mind one 's manners ( and one 's metaphors — tarring with brushes , for instance ! ) when venturing on to the territory that Pound opens up with his reflections on the ethnic mix of the American population , and the distinction that he makes between the older stock ( Eliots and Pounds ) and the relative late-come immigrants ( Williams 's stock on both sides ) . |
| 17 | He makes little of the Gibraltar shootings , which first convinced me she was unreliable . |
| 18 | He makes contacts with Eritrean representatives in London , and then the professional lure of a scoop brings him , bumpily , to the front line in the mountains , with Asmara , the capital , only a 100 miles away . |
| 19 | He makes the world stand up and speak to one . |
| 20 | He makes a bleary-eyed and disorientating living between Rungis , the wholesale fish market on the south side of Paris , and London , where he supplies fish to restaurants such as Tante Claire , Alistair Little and Suntory . |
| 21 | He picked up a groin injury during his heroic performance in Lions colours in France and , with exhaustion probably exacerbating his condition , he makes way for David Thresher in the second row . |
| 22 | He 's got a very good serve , but the percentage of points he makes from the baseline is better than with the volley . |
| 23 | James Bolam takes the lead , and he makes a fair job of it . |
| 24 | Four years after the murder of ‘ little Gregory ’ his successor is still pondering the whole business , and until he makes up his mind Mrs Villemin can not finally be cleared of all suspicion , and her husband can not be tried for shooting Mr Laroche . |
| 25 | As one policeman remarked after a gouger had been treated leniently by a judge , ‘ Right , we 'll get him for every wrong move he makes ’ ( FN 9/3/87 , p. 8 ) . |
| 26 | What gets me about this guy Alderson is that he served in the country area of Cornwall , and he makes all these proposals about inner-city policing ; now how the hell would he know anything about the inner city ? |
| 27 | In a mail-order advertisement for the book he makes a unique offer : ‘ Tick box if you would like your boob personally signed by Noel Edmonds . ’ |
| 28 | In A High And Lonely Place he makes a trenchant analysis of the despoilation of the Cairngorms . |
| 29 | He makes explicit that he is not writing as some individual Messianic figure propounding an individualistic gospel deriving from ‘ the ineffable wisdom of primitive peoples ’ . |
| 30 | He makes a point of mentioning in The Rock one of his music-hall favourites , George Robey . |