Example sentences of "to make his " in BNC.
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| 1 | This intention differed from the sculptor 's frequent artistic aim to make his small figures appear remote . |
| 2 | But when he does resume them , when the time comes for him to make his next leap , the suggestions made in the course of this affair of his fiction fatigue and literal turn — suggestions which receive both rebuttal and support from within the shape-changing dialectic represented by The Counterlife — will not deserve to be forgotten . |
| 3 | Find a way of allowing each viewer to make his own impact on the glass , he wrote , to indicate that viewing is not a neutral activity . |
| 4 | To make his favourite dish of poached seabass fillet with langoustines , he scales the fish and removes the innards , being careful not to break the connective tissue between the flakes of flesh . |
| 5 | Mr Catlett was deputized to ‘ keep an eye on everything ’ while Perkins went up to the vicarage to make his 'phone call . |
| 6 | Leonard himself was enthused to make his own music , an inspiration which developed from being induced to learn the piano as a young boy with Miss McDougall , in which he said that neither he nor his sister made any headway . |
| 7 | The brilliant bravura variation when Kitri springs lightly forwards sur les pointes whilst fanning herself and Basil attempts to make his zapateado ( heel-tapping ) appear authentic by the slightly crouching pose of his body , add even greater panache to their efforts . |
| 8 | ( First Edition ) KEVIN DRINKELL , Coventry City 's record signing from Rangers , is set to make his debut for the Sky Blues in the Littlewoods Cup tonight , against Grimsby Town , the club where he spent the first nine years of his career . |
| 9 | PAT CASH , the former Wimbledon champion out of competition for six months after surgery on a ruptured Achilles tendon , plans to make his comeback at the Hopman Cup in Perth over Christmas . |
| 10 | True , he went to a lot of trouble to make his performance as authentic as possible ( 'he wo n't be satisfied till he 's assassinated , ’ friends used to say ) , but in the end what we see is still Massey , not Lincoln . |
| 11 | Both as critics and film-makers their creed was so consistent as to encourage producers to contact any of their colleagues , and after the international success of such films as A Bout de Souffle , Hiroshima Mon Amour and Les Quatre Cents Coups , Doniol-Valcroze was able to make his feature debut in 1960 with L'Eau a la Bouche . |
| 12 | FitzGerald aims to make his St Leger runner-up one of the classier recruits to the jumping game next winter . |
| 13 | Believing that an artist has to suffer to make his statement , he puts himself through dangerous sequences like cutting off his breathing . |
| 14 | But Shilton should not have been allowed to make his crucial save . |
| 15 | John Sheridan is in line to make his league debut for Nottingham Forest , at Coventry on Saturday . |
| 16 | The prospect of equalling Gary Player 's record of five victories , and the fact that he has a bye into the second round on Friday , has enticed Ballesteros to make his 14th successive appearance in the World Matchplay . |
| 17 | But this year , Mr Patten had to make his own speech to the conference for the first time . |
| 18 | It was also a problem which enabled Labour 's new young leader , Neil Kinnock , to make his mark , perhaps for the first time since his election in October 1983 . |
| 19 | This was a Churchill decaying physically , slower in the uptake , less able to work long hours , less interested in the peacetime problems of the country , but still well enough to make his own decisions . |
| 20 | To make his tributes to earlier cities complete , before returning to Cambridge and Boston in 1932 he wrote to a correspondent in St Louis in 1930 , telling him how much his poetry owed to his childhood there . |
| 21 | Eliot sees himself as an orthodox writer , trying to make his audience aware of the need to contribute to their own living tradition . |
| 22 | For a time it seemed that Moran might choose to remain seated and force McQuaid to make his own way out of the house . |
| 23 | It has taken him just five and a half years to make his mark in the big time . |
| 24 | He thought it a mistake for the Prince to make his first visit in the shadow of such a legendary figure . |
| 25 | Paul had the technical know-how to copy Edison 's Kinetoscope when he realized the American inventor had n't covered all the necessary patents , to make his own camera when Edison cut off the supply of films and produce a film projector , the Theatrograph , within two months of hearing about Lumière 's invention . |
| 26 | It 's understood that he has now been twice to complain to the Prime Minister that ministers are trying to make his staff do things he finds improper . |
| 27 | Those musical orbits described by the fertile planets of Loose Tubes and the Jazz Warriors dominated the polls , with Andy Sheppard continuing to make his individual mark as he has in the past two years . |
| 28 | But Mr Hugh Annesley , the RUC Chief Constable , who asked Mr Stevens to make his inquiry , has defended his actions , saying the surprise operation was the only way houses could be searched ensuring the security of the officers involved . |
| 29 | CECIL Parkinson , the Transport Secretary , was due at the despatch box to make his statement about the future of British Rail . |
| 30 | Then , Mr Ridley turned up to make his statement about the Barlow Clowes affair . |