Example sentences of "he make a gesture " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made a gesture like stirring a pudding . |
| 2 | And so he made a gesture as if to say , It 's all yours . |
| 3 | His new paperweight , he informed me , was a section of mizzen-mast — he made a gesture of extravagant size — which his father had extracted with delivery forceps from the posterior of an old seaman . |
| 4 | He made a gesture indicating helplessness . |
| 5 | He made a gesture : she took it literally . |
| 6 | And now ’ — he made a gesture that cleared the air around them of all such trivia — ‘ I want to show you a machine that 's going to put some spirit into my work this summer . |
| 7 | He made a gesture to indicate she could even search his bedroom . |
| 8 | It is characteristic of a kind of hardness in the fable that on this one occasion when Gollum 's heart is stirred and he makes a gesture of penitence , Sam should wake up , misunderstand , and accuse Gollum of ‘ pawing ’ and ‘ sneaking ’ . |