Example sentences of "he [be] make [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had never physically hurt her , although there had been more than one occasion towards the end of their short , fraught marriage when he had looked as if he were making a huge effort to stop himself raising a hand to her . |
| 2 | By the conceit he is making a serious point : his poetry is repetitive because the virtues of the Friend are semper eadem . |
| 3 | Thus , when a doctor asks for an X-ray or path lab test , or prescribes drugs , or decides that a patient should remain in hospital for a further two days , he is making a financial as well as a clinical decision . |
| 4 | Remarking that Dostoevsky 's The Idiot does not altogether ‘ come off ’ , he is making a coherent and discussable point , whether or not one accepts it . |
| 5 | He is not claiming that representations have their causal significance only in some societies or in some epochs , but he is making a general assumption about psychological functioning and , thereby , about human nature . |
| 6 | She wrote , with an unaccustomed fluency , which made her sister wonder if the words had been thought up by her alone , that : — it would not be good for Oreste to leave here at this moment since he has been ill and though he is making a good recovery the doctor who you can be sure I was quick to call and no expense being spared but your money put to good use has said it would injure his general well-being to travel in his weakened state . |
| 7 | But he is making a remarkable recovery . |
| 8 | If Looking on the Bright Side ( 1932 ) is sometimes spoilt by the fact that the director , Basil Dean , seems to be under the impression he is making a sophisticated Hollywood musical , the scenes in the tenement block where Fields and her songwriter lover first meet are genuinely stirring . |
| 9 | He is making a commendable effort to appear nonchalant and relaxed , despite the oversize top hat in his hand and the obtrusive stunted tree and rustic stile provided by the photographer , Mr. G. Diviani , in his Holloway Road studio opposite the Caledonian Church . |
| 10 | Keepers say he is making the right moves with five females at Cricket St Thomas Wildlife Park near Chard , Somerset . |
| 11 | Mr Stern 's costings tell him it is not worth paying more than £750/acre for bare arable land if he is to make a reasonable living . |
| 12 | Adams showed the authority and leadership you would expect from a defender who has won 17 caps at senior level but in World Cup terms the most significant performance came from Gascoigne , who cut out the asides and showed some of the tactical discipline he has to acquire if he is to make the most of his natural talent in international football . |
| 13 | With Sugar and ‘ Copper Blue ’ he 's made a great start . |
| 14 | He 's made a good start , now comes the big push . |
| 15 | He 's made a good marriage . |
| 16 | Saddlers manager Kenny Hibbitt said : ‘ I always knew he had quality and he 's made a tremendous start to his career . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ He 's made a marvellous recovery since he 's been with us in Barbados . |
| 18 | ‘ He 's made a remarkable recovery , ’ Sister Cooney said . |
| 19 | President George Bush said : ‘ I do n't know what Saddam 's doing , but he 's made a big mistake . |
| 20 | She says : ‘ He 's made a big difference to my being able to get through it . |
| 21 | If he 's made me believe them , that means he 's made a large part of the new me . |
| 22 | And he 's made a beautiful one for me , so I 'm happy about it . ’ |
| 23 | He 's made a few of the lads sit up , and now they 've got to take a good , hard look at themselves . ’ |
| 24 | Jim has been a newspaper seller in Swindon for 25 years and now for the first time in his life , he 's made the front page . |
| 25 | Khovanshchina is so : you see what happens , someone is coming or someone is angry or unhappy or he 's making a political move or it 's coming from the heart . |
| 26 | The estranged wife of the Marquis of Blandford says he 's making a real effort to get back on the straight and narrow . |
| 27 | ‘ He 's making a few phone calls , ’ she said at last . |
| 28 | I think he 's making a valid point . |
| 29 | He 's making a lovely mess with that . |
| 30 | ‘ — at the moment he 's making a beautiful chain for a Mayoress down south . ’ |