Example sentences of "make him famous " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the predictions that have made him famous , Britain 's top amateur weather-watcher would rather rely on a few observations of his own … |
| 2 | And anyway it 's this bas er ba baseball player and he does n't hit the ball you see , which ma does n't make him famous so he finds this person and he makes him go back and he does hit the ball and becomes really famous and that special person 's Michael Caine , it looked quite good . |
| 3 | But then , it was not his good looks that made him famous . |
| 4 | As Jimmy , Hoffman elaborates the film role that made him famous , Benjamin in The Graduate , and he is a thoroughly charming actor with sufficient off-beat idiosyncrasies to make him a spiny delight . |
| 5 | Holy Living and Holy Dying made him famous and went through twenty editions in the next fifty years . |
| 6 | Baxter 's work and his royal connections made him famous during the years directly following the Great Exhibition and he gained public recognition for his achievements : he was awarded the great gold medal of Austria ( 1852 ) , and medals for his exhibits at the Great Exhibitions in New York ( 1853 ) and Paris ( 1855 ) , was elected a member of the Royal Society of Arts ( 1855 ) , and received the grand gold medal of Sweden ( 1857 ) . |
| 7 | A renowned rock guitarist is going back on the road with a new band , ten years after leaving the group that made him famous . |
| 8 | Much more important than this was Tolkien 's vast imaginative life , one day to make him famous as author of The Lord of the Rings , but at this date completely hidden from all but his family and close friends . |
| 9 | It would seem as though The Hobbit , for instance , the story which was to make him famous when it was published in 1937 , had existed in embryonic form as early as about 1930 . |