Example sentences of "make a fortune [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A very weird man — who , if The Pistols had stayed together , could have made a fortune flogging those snaps to a Sunday dreadful . |
| 2 | He realised that he was , in fact , looking at a man , so heavily clothed , hatted and booted in furs that he could have made a fortune doing tricks at the Glasgow Fair . |
| 3 | Yeah made a fortune did n't they ? |
| 4 | One day she would make a fortune selling it everywhere . |
| 5 | You could make a fortune selling them to stressed businessmen . |
| 6 | Electronics millionaire Alan Sugar , who made a fortune selling hi-fis and computers at prices even the Japanese could not match , is planning to buy back his Amstrad company from investors . |
| 7 | During the Civil War , when the Yankees surrounded the southern ports , the Sutherlands made a fortune running the blockades with war supplies from the British and French , as well as helping the cotton export to flow from the ports of Wilmington , Charleston and Savannah . |
| 8 | As well as business problems Mr Liffen , 47 , who made a fortune importing Italian electrical goods in the Seventies , also had domestic troubles , police said . |
| 9 | Make a fortune sexing out difficult fish for breeders ? |
| 10 | Doing it make a make a fortune doing it |
| 11 | But what I did n't know was he was a member of the local mafia and did n't want to see his chance of making a fortune disappear into thin air . |