Example sentences of "[verb] make [adv prt] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consultation is a form of limited participation in decision-making for subordinates , but there might be a tendency for a manager to appear to consult his subordinates when really he has made up his mind beforehand . |
| 2 | ‘ The manager has made up his mind and he 's going to stick to it . ’ |
| 3 | As the Secretary of State was never coy about telling us that he opposed the directive , will he tell us — as there is a meeting on Wednesday , I assume that he has made up his mind about whether he will agree to that part of the social charter — whether he has changed his mind or whether the Prime Minister has changed it for him ? |
| 4 | He has made up his mind that there was a Big Bang and that is that . |
| 5 | When they could hold it no longer the Collector shouted the order to retire to the next door : that which led from the drawing-room to the hall and where , several weeks earlier , the Collector had been lurking as he tried to make up his mind to attend the meeting of the Krishnapur Poetry Society . |
| 6 | By the time he had read the Herald Tribune from front page lead to back page comic strip , the maid had come to make up his room . |
| 7 | It was as if he 'd made up his mind about something yet was not sure if it was the right thing to do . |
| 8 | He said that when he was very young , he 'd made up his mind to marry her , but that it was a crazy idea and he 'd been stupid ever to think of it and Alice had been quite right when she told him so . ’ |
| 9 | Never one to hang about , Gilbert , once he 'd made up his mind . ’ |
| 10 | He thought briefly , and then , Hazlitt recalled , ‘ seemed to make up his mind to close with this proposal in the act of tying on one of his shoes ’ . |
| 11 | Ben never seemed to make up his mind whether I was a contralto or a soprano . |
| 12 | ‘ As Kim Bailey does n't like making up his mind about where his horses run until the last minute , it 's been difficult to try for outside rides . |
| 13 | He can shoot well enough if he wants , I think , but just can t seem to make up his mind whether he likes the idea that much . " |
| 14 | However , it was his decision and having made up his mind , he stuck to his guns . |
| 15 | Having made up his mind to talk , he spoke rapidly and fluently and Pascoe 's pen flew over the paper as he took shorthand notes . |
| 16 | Her fury with the diabolical man nearly went into orbit , though , when , once more pinning his dark-eyed look on her , he drawled , ‘ Just hanging on to him while he 's good for the rent , is that it ? ’ and , having made up his mind to that , seemed not to require an answer . |
| 17 | He should have made up his mind and stood firm . |
| 18 | Capt Terence O'Neill … will soon have to make up his mind whether he intends to appease the Republican minority or serve the vast so-called extremist majority . |
| 19 | ‘ The Khedive will have to make up his mind soon . ’ |
| 20 | He was going to be leaving soon anyway so Owen would have to make up his mind about Jane . |
| 21 | Captain Mel Bowen , a Ministry of Transport investigator , seems to have made up his mind after interviewing Mr Glennie and the three others . |
| 22 | He never seems to have made up his mind what kind of book he 's trying to write : a slice of autobiography , a potted history of government-TUC relations , a polemic about union decline , or an extended advertisement for the EETPU 's version of ‘ business unionism ’ . |
| 23 | But Lennie seems to have made up his mind that it 's his midfield which needs strengthening . |
| 24 | He seemed to have made up his mind in advance that he could reveal a certain amount of information about the past rather than the present . |
| 25 | Marcus seemed to have made up his mind . |
| 26 | Lady Macbeth tries sweetly to persuade him , but her husband seems to have made up his mind . |
| 27 | In the written language the reader is left to make up his mind which are important words , helped to a greater or lesser degree by the style of the author , by italicisation , spacing , punctuation and so on . |
| 28 | He ca n't seem to make up his mind who he is . |
| 29 | The only clue so far discovered of any value to a possible dating of his return is the fact that , according to Bursali Mehmed Tahir , there exists a copy of one of his most famous works , the written in his own hand , presented to Mehmed II , and dated 878/1473–4 it would not thus be unreasonable to suppose that Molla Husrev wrote the copy especially for Mehmed II , this in turn suggesting that by 878 Molla Husrev had made up his quarrel with the sultan and had perhaps returned to Istanbul . |
| 30 | Mrs Bridges maintained : ‘ Mr Newton admitted on Friday that he had made up his end of the story . |