Example sentences of "he [be] [v-ing] make a " in BNC.
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1 | The London middleweight Rod Douglas , who has been in hospital since being beaten by the British champion Herol Graham two weeks ago , is expected to leave hospital ‘ in a week or so ’ , according to his manager Mickey Duff , who said last night : ‘ He is going to make a complete recovery . |
2 | This apart , a judge may always consider or vary any decision before " the Order has been perfected " , meaning before it has been sealed and sent out ; he may have to give further opportunity to be heard , if he is going to make a change , see Note to Ord 5 , r 5 . |
3 | Cos I mean , he 's starting to make a beeline for Carol now and she 's getting the creeps about it . |
4 | He 's not going to warn Shatov or tell the police , he 's going to make a statement ‘ for general edification ’ — words but no deeds , a turn towards sanity and life that might have been , and a horrific-comic Possessed moment of subtlest art . |
5 | ‘ You do n't think he 's going to make a terrible fool of himself , do you , Bob ? ’ |
6 | ‘ Oh God , I know he 's going to make a fool of himself . |
7 | If he 's going to make a speech it ought to be before too much champagne goes to too many heads . ’ |
8 | I looked at the faces of the other soldiers to see if he was trying to make a fool of me . |
9 | A good example of this was Einstein , who called the cosmological constant , which he introduced when he was trying to make a static model of the universe , the biggest mistake of his life . |
10 | He had his own band now ; he was trying to make a go of it full-time , and it was difficult . |
11 | At the time of writing , though , he was waiting to make a start on it , being holed up in hospital with appendicitis. ’ it 's so inconvenient of him to get ill just now , ’ says his agent , only half-Joking . |
12 | She caught him again on the way back between oven and table , and sank herself into him once more , but after a moment became conscious that he was having to make a considerable effort to hold the hot saucepan away from her at arm 's length . |
13 | By then , Jack Nicholson had , after a lot of heart-searching , agreed he was going to make a movie out of Larner 's book for BBS , with Larner himself as joint scriptwriter . |
14 | She imagined he was going to make a move towards her , but what he did was to hitch the child closer to him until his face was almost pressed against his own and then he smiled a smile that widened his full lips but , as she had seen before , did not separate his teeth . |
15 | He was going to make a lot of money . |
16 | It had been all very well announcing that he was going to make a privateering cruise , but the preparations for it and the difficulties in getting a crew together had been enormous . |
17 | ‘ And suddenly , one night , after Jacqui had gone to bed , Marius suddenly said he was going to make a new will , and there was someone on holiday down there who was a solicitor — ’ |
18 | He was going to make a splash the nature of which was still to be determined . |
19 | OK , so he was well-built , and he was going to make a tough opponent , but there had to be some chink she could work at . |
20 | After today 's breakout Officials at High Down Prison in London , where Evans was remanded , say they had no inkling he was going to make a run for it . |