Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he make a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His spiritualist interest began in late teens , and colours much of the work — notably an interesting poetic story about how he made a promise with a friend that whichever of them was first to the ‘ other side ’ would attempt to communicate to the other — and how it happened . |
| 2 | Somewhere out there Michael Wayland is saying to his wife , ‘ God , when what's-that-man's-name began telling that enormously long story about how he made a fool of himself crawling round the floor on his hands and knees , which he obviously found so funny , I thought I 'd die . ’ |
| 3 | That was how he made a living after he lost his job on the railway , through drink and petty pilfering . |
| 4 | He 'd heard their shrill voices when he made a routine call and seen Eileen Ryan sitting up in her big bed looking strained and miserable . |
| 5 | Skipper John Frain got into the act in the 37th minute when he made a charge through Derby 's rear guard to convert Dave Smyth 's pass on the run . |
| 6 | He resisted the temptation to kick the radio in after the fish then sprinted the forty yards to the cabin where he made a telephone call to acknowledge the bleeper . |
| 7 | The chairman of Lufthansa recently visited Moscow where he made a speech referring pointedly to the close relationship the German airline enjoyed with the Russians in the 1920s and 1930s . |